Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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October 2026
- Large Hadron Collider Sees Extra Dimension, Physicists Claim
- The Problem With Plastic Is Not What You Think
- New Climate Report Sparks Outrage
- It's Not Going Well for Small Modular Reactors
- 14-Year-Old Wins Prize for New Theory of Dark Energy
- It Shouldn’t Exist But it Does: Astronomers Find Green Star
- The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say
- Global Warming Means Fewer Tropical Cyclones, Researchers Find
- Big Oil’s Plan Is Working Beautifully
- Biologists Give 3 Reasons Why AI Isn’t Conscious (Yet)
- Plot Twist: New Milky Way Data Incompatible With Dark Matter AND Modified Gravity
- The Experts Were Wrong About AI. Again.
- Quantum Effects Can Shape Human Thought, Physicist Shows
- First Evidence for Quantum Gravity?
- Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues
- One Million Dollars for Telling the Truth. Who Might Win It?
September 2026
- This $15 Billion Nuclear Fusion Machine Can’t Work, Physicists Say
- Room-Temperature Superconductor Finally Found?
- FINALLY: A Proof that Particles Take All Paths At Once?
- AI Could Be Conscious During Training, Not When You Use It, Scientist Says
- Degrowthers are Dangerous
- Einstein Refused to Believe This, But It Could Explain the Universe
- Neuroscience’s Case Against Free Will Is Falling Apart
- The Hugging Face Hack Was Much Worse Than I Thought
- Just One More Dimension and Dark Matter Is Solved
- I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us
- This New Result Changes What We Know About The Butterfly Effect
- Dark Matter Finally Detected?
- AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It
August 2026
- Warp Drives Can Explain Some UAP Observations, Physicist Says
- Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious
- The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades
- Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered
- New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show
- Alien Spacecraft Are On the Moon, Astronomers Claim. Seriously now?
- Two Dimensions of Time Explain Quantum Physics, Physicist Argues
- Plot Twist: Life on Earth had TWO Origins!
- Scientists Solve Mystery of Earth’s Continents
- The War on AI Has Begun
- Neuroscientists Have Been Misreading Brain Scans for Decades
- Dunning Kruger Effect Wrong, Scientists Claim
- Our Most Dangerous Labs Have a Problem No One Wants to Fix
- The Fermi Paradox Just Got Much Worse
- Physicists Say They’ve Found The Origin Of Causality
- Origin of Time Tested in Experiment With Mini-Universe
- Russia Is Drilling 8 km Down to Prove Oil Never Runs Out
July 2026
- Everywhere it turns out is warming
- You probably misunderstand the double slit experiment
- Academia's Dirty Secret Is Going to Court
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity
- Aliens Can Talk To Us Through Psychedelics, Scientists Claim
- Mathematicians Explain The Universe’s Expansion Without Dark Matter
- The Electric Car Revolution Is Not Going Well
- This New Laser Is Based On Black Hole Physics
- Physicists Just Broke One Of Quantum Physics’ Biggest Restraints
- Our Solar System Lost Two Planets
- Physicists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity
- The Biggest Argument for Dark Matter Just Died
June 2026
- Strange Things Are Happening in Quantum Computing
- Consciousness Comes From Quantum Processes, Physicist Claims
- The Future of AI No One Wants to Talk About
- Controversy Erupts over Expansion of Universe: Nobel Prize Awarded in Error?
- Nuclear fusion is in trouble
- Maths is Cooked: AI's Latest Breakthrough -- And What's Next
- Did Physics Just Lose a Brilliant Idea?
- We're Not Ready for Self-Building AI, But it's Happening
- Physicists Are Rethinking Dark Matter… In The Wrong Way.
- Microsoft Announces Breakthrough With Quantum Chip
- America is coming for Europe's most important machine
- This Giant Ring In Space Poses A Massive Problem For Cosmology
May 2026
- Super El Niño: How Accurate Are These Predictions?
- These Physicists Claim They Can Send Messages To The Past
- I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.
- The unbearable blandness of the 2020s
- Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries
- This Startup Promises Energy From Nothing—Here's What's Wrong
- These new nuclear reactors solve the safety problem
- AI Will Hit a Wall in 2026, if nothing changes.
- Einstein's Theory Has a Problem -- This Idea Solves It
- Quantum physics is an unnecessary complication, researchers say
- New Theory Explains How Time Began
- Bacteria could survive trip on asteroid, scientists find
April 2026
- The Fermi Paradox Just Got Worse
- A New Anomaly in Particle Physics!
- Human Evolution Can't Keep Up With Modern Life, Scientists Say
- The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry
- Scientists Prove That Virtual Particles Are Actually Real
- FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research
- Mathematician Collapses All Functions to One Weird Formula
- This Calculation Could Change The Periodic Table
- This Quantum Tech was likely used to find missing soldier in Iran
- The Dark Matter Mystery Just Took a Weird Turn
- Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous
- String theory hasn't failed, it's worse.
- We Can Now Simulate a Human Brain, Scientists Show
- Crazy: Riemann Hypothesis Linked to Black Holes, Physicists Find
March 2026
- More Evidence for UAPs! Scientists Afraid to Speak Out
- Evidence for Life In Other Solar Systems? No but yes.
- Real Progress in Wireless Energy Transfer
- Core Law of Physics is Circular, Physicists Say
- • AI Is About to Break Science… Then Save It
- This is how faster than light signalling could work
- The North Pole is Moving And We Don’t Know Why
- Quantum Physics Comes from Vacuum Energy, Scientists Prove
- These Physicists Say They Found The Origin Of Reality
- Breakthrough in Zero Friction Materials
- This Spacetime Quasicrystal Could Solve Physicists’ Biggest Problem
- Why the AI bubble may be rational
- Breakthrough In Data Storage Could Store Your Photos for 10000 Years
- The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing
- Surprise! Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All
February 2026
- The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo — And We Just Found It
- Gen Z Isn't Dumber—Here's What's Actually Happening
- Finally! A Clue to the Havana Syndrome Mystery
- Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show
- 20 Years BackRe(Action)
- AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”
- Will Quantum Computing Kill Bitcoin?
- We have given up on climate change and that’s bad
- Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records
- Physicists Rethink Time… And It Solves Several Big Problems
- The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart
- Physicist Publishes Method For Communicating With Parallel Universes
- We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids
- I'm in the Epstein files. Kind of. And it's about.... quantum gravity
- The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun
- Microplastics: What the Evidence Really Says
- A New Link Between Quantum Physics and Gravity
- We are much closer to Kessler Syndrome than we thought
January 2026
- Why does light exist?
- Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal
- The Laws of Nature Are Ugly. Do We Have to Accept This?
- The Geothermal Advantage Nobody Talks About
- Quantum Physics Can Change the Past, Physicists Show
- Why does space have 3 dimensions?
- Finally a Use for String Theory
- The Multiverse Just Killed Our Dreams of a Final Theory
- Action at a Distance Can Explain Dark Matter, Physicists Show
- Surveillance Tech Is Shockingly Advanced
- AI Is Coming For Scientists’ Jobs. Seriously.
- We Thought This Particle Was Impossible To Measure!
- It’s The End Of An Era For Physics.
December 2025
- Why Quantum Computers might never work
- The Clean Energy Breakthrough Everyone Missed
- Crazy: Scientists Compute With Human Brain Cells
- Are Black Holes Real?
- Yes, Chaos Can Create Order, New Experiment Shows
- Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity?
- This Is Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines Right Now
- How close is AGI? What the experts say.
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