The Curious Engineer

Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction

2015–2026

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October 2026

  1. Large Hadron Collider Sees Extra Dimension, Physicists Claim
  2. The Problem With Plastic Is Not What You Think
  3. New Climate Report Sparks Outrage
  4. It's Not Going Well for Small Modular Reactors
  5. 14-Year-Old Wins Prize for New Theory of Dark Energy
  6. It Shouldn’t Exist But it Does: Astronomers Find Green Star
  7. The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say
  8. Global Warming Means Fewer Tropical Cyclones, Researchers Find
  9. Big Oil’s Plan Is Working Beautifully
  10. Biologists Give 3 Reasons Why AI Isn’t Conscious (Yet)
  11. Plot Twist: New Milky Way Data Incompatible With Dark Matter AND Modified Gravity
  12. The Experts Were Wrong About AI. Again.
  13. Quantum Effects Can Shape Human Thought, Physicist Shows
  14. First Evidence for Quantum Gravity?
  15. Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues
  16. One Million Dollars for Telling the Truth. Who Might Win It?

September 2026

  1. This $15 Billion Nuclear Fusion Machine Can’t Work, Physicists Say
  2. Room-Temperature Superconductor Finally Found?
  3. FINALLY: A Proof that Particles Take All Paths At Once?
  4. AI Could Be Conscious During Training, Not When You Use It, Scientist Says
  5. Degrowthers are Dangerous
  6. Einstein Refused to Believe This, But It Could Explain the Universe
  7. Neuroscience’s Case Against Free Will Is Falling Apart
  8. The Hugging Face Hack Was Much Worse Than I Thought
  9. Just One More Dimension and Dark Matter Is Solved
  10. I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us
  11. This New Result Changes What We Know About The Butterfly Effect
  12. Dark Matter Finally Detected?
  13. AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It

August 2026

  1. Warp Drives Can Explain Some UAP Observations, Physicist Says
  2. Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious
  3. The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades
  4. Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered
  5. New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show
  6. Alien Spacecraft Are On the Moon, Astronomers Claim. Seriously now?
  7. Two Dimensions of Time Explain Quantum Physics, Physicist Argues
  8. Plot Twist: Life on Earth had TWO Origins!
  9. Scientists Solve Mystery of Earth’s Continents
  10. The War on AI Has Begun
  11. Neuroscientists Have Been Misreading Brain Scans for Decades
  12. Dunning Kruger Effect Wrong, Scientists Claim
  13. Our Most Dangerous Labs Have a Problem No One Wants to Fix
  14. The Fermi Paradox Just Got Much Worse
  15. Physicists Say They’ve Found The Origin Of Causality
  16. Origin of Time Tested in Experiment With Mini-Universe
  17. Russia Is Drilling 8 km Down to Prove Oil Never Runs Out

July 2026

  1. Everywhere it turns out is warming
  2. You probably misunderstand the double slit experiment
  3. Academia's Dirty Secret Is Going to Court
  4. Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity
  5. Aliens Can Talk To Us Through Psychedelics, Scientists Claim
  6. Mathematicians Explain The Universe’s Expansion Without Dark Matter
  7. The Electric Car Revolution Is Not Going Well
  8. This New Laser Is Based On Black Hole Physics
  9. Physicists Just Broke One Of Quantum Physics’ Biggest Restraints
  10. Our Solar System Lost Two Planets
  11. Physicists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity
  12. The Biggest Argument for Dark Matter Just Died

June 2026

  1. Strange Things Are Happening in Quantum Computing
  2. Consciousness Comes From Quantum Processes, Physicist Claims
  3. The Future of AI No One Wants to Talk About
  4. Controversy Erupts over Expansion of Universe: Nobel Prize Awarded in Error?
  5. Nuclear fusion is in trouble
  6. Maths is Cooked: AI's Latest Breakthrough -- And What's Next
  7. Did Physics Just Lose a Brilliant Idea?
  8. We're Not Ready for Self-Building AI, But it's Happening
  9. Physicists Are Rethinking Dark Matter… In The Wrong Way.
  10. Microsoft Announces Breakthrough With Quantum Chip
  11. America is coming for Europe's most important machine
  12. This Giant Ring In Space Poses A Massive Problem For Cosmology

May 2026

  1. Super El Niño: How Accurate Are These Predictions?
  2. These Physicists Claim They Can Send Messages To The Past
  3. I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.
  4. The unbearable blandness of the 2020s
  5. Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries
  6. This Startup Promises Energy From Nothing—Here's What's Wrong
  7. These new nuclear reactors solve the safety problem
  8. AI Will Hit a Wall in 2026, if nothing changes.
  9. Einstein's Theory Has a Problem -- This Idea Solves It
  10. Quantum physics is an unnecessary complication, researchers say
  11. New Theory Explains How Time Began
  12. Bacteria could survive trip on asteroid, scientists find

April 2026

  1. The Fermi Paradox Just Got Worse
  2. A New Anomaly in Particle Physics!
  3. Human Evolution Can't Keep Up With Modern Life, Scientists Say
  4. The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry
  5. Scientists Prove That Virtual Particles Are Actually Real
  6. FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research
  7. Mathematician Collapses All Functions to One Weird Formula
  8. This Calculation Could Change The Periodic Table
  9. This Quantum Tech was likely used to find missing soldier in Iran
  10. The Dark Matter Mystery Just Took a Weird Turn
  11. Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous
  12. String theory hasn't failed, it's worse.
  13. We Can Now Simulate a Human Brain, Scientists Show
  14. Crazy: Riemann Hypothesis Linked to Black Holes, Physicists Find

March 2026

  1. More Evidence for UAPs! Scientists Afraid to Speak Out
  2. Evidence for Life In Other Solar Systems? No but yes.
  3. Real Progress in Wireless Energy Transfer
  4. Core Law of Physics is Circular, Physicists Say
  5. • AI Is About to Break Science… Then Save It
  6. This is how faster than light signalling could work
  7. The North Pole is Moving And We Don’t Know Why
  8. Quantum Physics Comes from Vacuum Energy, Scientists Prove
  9. These Physicists Say They Found The Origin Of Reality
  10. Breakthrough in Zero Friction Materials
  11. This Spacetime Quasicrystal Could Solve Physicists’ Biggest Problem
  12. Why the AI bubble may be rational
  13. Breakthrough In Data Storage Could Store Your Photos for 10000 Years
  14. The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing
  15. Surprise! Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All

February 2026

  1. The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo — And We Just Found It
  2. Gen Z Isn't Dumber—Here's What's Actually Happening
  3. Finally! A Clue to the Havana Syndrome Mystery
  4. Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show
  5. 20 Years BackRe(Action)
  6. AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”
  7. Will Quantum Computing Kill Bitcoin?
  8. We have given up on climate change and that’s bad
  9. Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records
  10. Physicists Rethink Time… And It Solves Several Big Problems
  11. The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart
  12. Physicist Publishes Method For Communicating With Parallel Universes
  13. We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids
  14. I'm in the Epstein files. Kind of. And it's about.... quantum gravity
  15. The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun
  16. Microplastics: What the Evidence Really Says
  17. A New Link Between Quantum Physics and Gravity
  18. We are much closer to Kessler Syndrome than we thought

January 2026

  1. Why does light exist?
  2. Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal
  3. The Laws of Nature Are Ugly. Do We Have to Accept This?
  4. The Geothermal Advantage Nobody Talks About
  5. Quantum Physics Can Change the Past, Physicists Show
  6. Why does space have 3 dimensions?
  7. Finally a Use for String Theory
  8. The Multiverse Just Killed Our Dreams of a Final Theory
  9. Action at a Distance Can Explain Dark Matter, Physicists Show
  10. Surveillance Tech Is Shockingly Advanced
  11. AI Is Coming For Scientists’ Jobs. Seriously.
  12. We Thought This Particle Was Impossible To Measure!
  13. It’s The End Of An Era For Physics.

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December 2025

  1. Why Quantum Computers might never work
  2. The Clean Energy Breakthrough Everyone Missed
  3. Crazy: Scientists Compute With Human Brain Cells
  4. Are Black Holes Real?
  5. Yes, Chaos Can Create Order, New Experiment Shows
  6. Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity?
  7. This Is Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines Right Now
  8. How close is AGI? What the experts say.
  9. Nanobots: The Truth Behind the Headlines
  10. Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show
  11. China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West?
  12. What is time, really?
  13. Can Warp Drives Be Engineered? This Former NASA Researcher Thinks So
  14. AI Is Breaking The Internet As We Know It
  15. Speed-of-Light Computing Could Get Us to AGI Very Fast
  16. Where does everything come from?
  17. Big Tech Wants To Build Data Centers In Space: Does This Make Sense?
  18. 100+ Years Old Debate About Quantum Reality Settled With Experiment. Really?
  19. New Fossils Suggest That Life On Earth Started Twice
  20. The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here
  21. Reality Doesn’t Need Complex Numbers, Physicists Prove
  22. The Big Problem With Solar Power
  23. 15 Year-Old Just Finished his PhD in Quantum Physics. I had a look at his thesis.
  24. Solar System Moves Way Too Fast, Cosmological Theory in Doubt

November 2025

  1. Small Nuclear Reactors are Coming --- Against All Odds
  2. I Worry AI Might Become Conscious – And We Won’t Notice
  3. This is a special time in human history
  4. Scientists may have detected dark matter.
  5. Huge Gravity Anomaly Discovered!
  6. All of Nature Needs only One Constant, Physicists Prove
  7. Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds
  8. It Took Physicists 50 Years To Prove Einstein Right About This
  9. Is it pointless now to fight climate change?
  10. AI Is Suddenly Surprisingly Good At Physics
  11. What is going on in Europe
  12. New Experiment Explains Why We Don't See Quantum Effects Everywhere
  13. Are We Causing a Mass Extinction?
  14. Physicists Prove That Universe is not a Simulation
  15. Nobel Prize for Dark Energy Awarded in Error?
  16. This Simple Trick Solves Impossible Physics Problems
  17. The Anti-AI Resistance Is Here
  18. Quantum Knots Created Matter, Physicists Say
  19. I was SO wrong about quantum computing.
  20. Finally, Real Battery Breakthroughs!
  21. These Mathematicians Don’t Believe Large Numbers Exist. I’m Serious.

October 2025

  1. Mysterious “Dark Star” Made of Dark Matter Spotted in Webb Telescope Data (Maybe)
  2. Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life
  3. Whatever happened to the Electric Vehicle Revolution?
  4. Physicist Solves 100 Year Old Problem. Really?
  5. Astrophysicists Find Evidence for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
  6. Positive Geometry Could Save Physics — or Destroy It
  7. Plagiarism Charges Against Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence
  8. Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems
  9. String Theory is “Fashion,” Penrose Said. We Finally Have a Response
  10. NASA Is Considering Nuking An Asteroid
  11. Quantum Healing Might Be Real – But Not Like We Thought
  12. Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Looks Increasingly Weird
  13. The Webb Telescope Just Observed Faster Than Light Signals
  14. Why is Everyone Suddenly Talking about Nuclear Fusion?
  15. How AI Is Replacing Mathematicians
  16. Is Gravity Just an Illusion Caused by Entropy? New Theory Explains How.
  17. The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Quite A Surprise
  18. Does Acceleration Create Particles from Nothing? These Physicists Say they can test it
  19. He Just Wants You To Survive: Bryan Johnson's Strange New Philosophy
  20. How long will it take to solve the 5 big physics problems?
  21. Academia's Scam Problem is Getting Worse

September 2025

  1. Is the recent global warming a “termination shock”?
  2. In which I lose faith in quantum computing
  3. Why People Aren’t Having Kids & How To Fix It
  4. DNA Data Storage 5 Years Away, New Report Says
  5. This New Time Crystal is Visible
  6. Did Graphene Just Break A Fundamental Law?
  7. Quantum Computers Could Test Free Will, Researchers Claim
  8. Researchers Warn of “Musk Illusion” That Brain Can be Sped Up
  9. This “Naked” Black Hole Shouldn’t Exist
  10. I can't believe this really happened.
  11. Physicists found a Dark Matter Clump near us!
  12. 5 Signs the AI Bubble is about to Burst
  13. 10 Quantum Myths, Debunked
  14. How the Planets Protect us From the Sun
  15. Why is the Universe so Big? These physicists say they know
  16. Did These Physicists Just Prove True Randomness?
  17. What Happens If AI Abundance Actually Arrives?
  18. There’s Another Way to See Reality. It’s Just as True.
  19. Causal Order Doesn’t Work, Physicists Find. Now what?
  20. The Hidden Link Between Time, Space, and Mass
  21. Crazy New Developments In Nuclear Battery Tech
  22. Hypothetical Zero Point Motion is Real, Clever Experiment Shows
  23. News from MOND: Dark Matter’s Biggest Competitor Attempts Comeback

August 2025

  1. This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War.
  2. I tried Vibe Physics. This is what I learned.
  3. Did they just break quantum physics?
  4. Interdimensional Beings have visited us, Congresswoman Claims – What might it mean?
  5. A New Test for Gravity & Quantum Physics With the Quantum Internet
  6. Black Holes Cause Dark Energy, Physicists Claim
  7. GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?
  8. Singularities are Inevitable, Physicist Claims
  9. This Is How People Game Science Publishing
  10. New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find
  11. Constructor Theory Explains Origin of Time
  12. Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse
  13. Is Dark Matter Evidence Of A Mirror Universe?
  14. Did MIT Researchers Just Prove Einstein Wrong?
  15. Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find
  16. Black Holes Can Eat Stars from Within, Physicists Claim
  17. How Quantum Physics Changes Our View Of Reality
  18. New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information
  19. We Are Underestimating AI
  20. More Controversy Over Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Claims
  21. The 10 Biggest Physics Paradoxes and Problems
  22. Africa Is Getting a New Ocean, And We Finally Know Why

July 2025

  1. Nuclear Fusion Can Create Gold, Nuclear Startup Claims
  2. We’ve Got Mass Extinctions Wrong, Scientists Say
  3. Interstellar Object Might Be Alien Probe, Astronomer Claims – What’s the Evidence?
  4. Nuclear Waste Barrels Found Leaking On Ocean Floor
  5. Unexpected Result of NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Test
  6. New Experiment Rules out Bohmian Mechanics. It’s Serious.
  7. More Evidence That We Live In A Giant “Hole” In Space
  8. These 10 Maths Facts Will Blow Your Mind (I Promise)
  9. The Problem with Eric Weinstein
  10. The Cosmology Crisis Just Got Even Worse
  11. The Top 10 Physics Myths, Debunked
  12. This Experiment Just Ruled Out The Many Worlds Theory, Physicists Claim
  13. Are String Theory’s Decades Of Failure Finally Over?
  14. These People Believe They Made AI Sentient
  15. Galaxies Really Should Not Do This
  16. Will AI Save Physics?
  17. Physicists Just Invented a New Particle Accelerator!
  18. Is China Winning the Quantum Race?
  19. AI makes us dumb, researchers show
  20. Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem

June 2025

  1. This is how they use AI to manipulate us
  2. That’s Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds
  3. Physicists Have No Idea What They Have Measured
  4. AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means.
  5. We Misunderstood Key Evidence for the Big Bang Theory, Astrophysicists Claim.
  6. Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? This Makes it Plausible
  7. Gamechange: Theories Of Everything Can’t Exist, Physicists Show.
  8. Does AI Already Have Free Will?
  9. We Might Finally Know Where Gold Comes From
  10. Surprise Progress in Quantum Computing
  11. This changed my life
  12. New Evidence AI Thinks Like Humans—So Why Can’t It Reason?
  13. What is empty space?
  14. Qubits Can Create Space, Physicists Show
  15. We Have An Aura of Visible Light, Scientists Show
  16. AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?
  17. Is physics worth the pain?
  18. New idea explains dark energy AND dark matter (maybe)
  19. Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible
  20. Universe Will Die Sooner Than We Thought, Physicists Claim
  21. The Quantum Internet Just Passed A Crucial Test
  22. The Theory Of Everything That Nobody Talks About

May 2025

  1. This Is Why China Wants To Drill Through The Earth’s Crust
  2. New Laser Tech Might Be Future of Computing
  3. Gravity Proves That We Live In A Simulation, Physicist Claims
  4. AI Slop Is Coming For Science
  5. Black Holes might turn into White Holes, and make up dark matter, physicists say
  6. Why theories of everything keep failing
  7. Gravity might be a force after all
  8. The USA is crumbling at the bottom and sinking
  9. New Record-Breaking Laser Shot at NIF: Can it break even?
  10. Why This Nobel Prize Winner Thinks Quantum Mechanics is Nonsense
  11. Leading Quantum Computing Firm Accused of Fraud
  12. Did We Get This Famous Quantum Physics Experiment Wrong?
  13. Origin of consciousness located with new test
  14. New Renewable Unlocked: Researchers Generate Electricity From Rain
  15. China Wants You To Be Afraid Of Their Quantum Computers
  16. Does the future determine the present?
  17. Four Starlink Satellites Fall From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries
  18. Trump's Budget Cuts: Is US Science About to Collapse?
  19. AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem
  20. Black Holes are Quantum Computers. Kind of.
  21. A New Unified Theory? I’ve had a look.
  22. Almost Forgotten Cold Fusion Idea Makes Comeback

April 2025

  1. Is It Really So Bad Katy Perry Took a Daisy to Space?
  2. Climate Change Can Destroy Capitalism, Finance Experts Warn
  3. The Andromeda Paradox Even Confuses Physicists
  4. This correction of Einstein’s theory fixes black holes
  5. The Next Clean Fuel Hype Is Likely Ammonia
  6. The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research
  7. Meet the Reactors Set to Upend Nuclear Fusion
  8. My Take On Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
  9. The Earth’s Core Is A Massive Helium Reserve, Researchers Claim
  10. Neutrino Measurement Supports Hawking’s Black Hole Theory
  11. Researchers find major clue to consciousness
  12. This New Device Creates Electricity From Earth’s Magnetic Field
  13. How I Became Particle Physicists’ Enemy #1
  14. The Entire Universe Seems to Spin, New Data Reveal
  15. The Nuclear Renaissance Faces a Problem: Reality
  16. Why CERN’s New Collider Plans are Dead on Arrival
  17. New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
  18. No, Matt, this is no crisis
  19. We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say
  20. Why US Professors are talking about facism
  21. First Nuclear Fusion Powered Rocket Design Unveiled
  22. Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed

March 2025

  1. Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids?
  2. Cosmology Crises are only Getting Worse
  3. US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space
  4. New Nuclear Waste Battery Can Run For 5000 Years
  5. Ex Google CEO Calls For Mutually Assured AI-Destruction
  6. Dark Energy is Even Weirder Than we Thought, New Data Shows
  7. The Path to AGI is Coming Into View
  8. China About to Lead World in Science and Tech
  9. New Theory of “Cosmological Stasis” Could Explain Dark Matter
  10. Atomic Anomaly Confirmed! Evidence for a “dark force”?
  11. Why I took down my climate science video
  12. New Experiment To Look for Quantum Noise of Space Itself
  13. China Discovers 60,000-Year Supply of Thorium
  14. Will AI Solve Quantum Computing?
  15. Einstein-Tile Discovered in Nature
  16. What Americans Don't Understand About Europe
  17. Time Can Run In Two Directions, Physicists Find
  18. Lonely Magnetic Northpoles Could Actually Exist, Physicists Find
  19. Did Climate Change Actually Make The LA Wildfires Worse?
  20. Why I think the new quantum gravity theory is wrong
  21. Microsoft’s Topological Qubits Probably Don’t Exist, Researchers Warn
  22. I Was Wrong About Geothermal Energy.
  23. Our Universe Has Two Different Sides, Physicists Confirm

February 2025

  1. Should we defund academia?
  2. AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some Of Us Dumber
  3. Earth’s Magnetic Field has a Hole, and it’s changing
  4. No Audible Boom from First Test Flight of Supersonic Passenger Plane
  5. Microsoft Exaggerates Quantum Computing "Breakthrough"
  6. This New Solution to a Quantum Paradox Can Improve Quantum Computing
  7. AI at CERN can reveal how Universe Will End, New Director Says
  8. Trump and Musk Attack Academia
  9. What’s Behind the Nuclear Fusion Startup Backed by Sam Altman?
  10. I was asked to keep this confidential
  11. This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature
  12. A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says
  13. AI makes great progress at taking over the world
  14. Good news for faster-than-light travel. Bad news for time travel.
  15. Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals
  16. Could this help us calculate the entire universe?
  17. A new theory of everything based on tensors?
  18. Sam Altman Thinks We Need To Change Our Social Contract
  19. This startup wants to build a conscious quantum computer
  20. Countries sign up for human vaccines against bird flu. Have we learned the COVID lesson?

January 2025

  1. Did DeepSeek burst the AI bubble or will the Stargate Project make it worse?
  2. Is String Theory Inevitable?
  3. AI Super Agents are coming. Allegedly. What does this mean?
  4. A New Ice Age For Europe Is Becoming More Likely
  5. What is “gravitic propulsion” and could the US government hide it?
  6. Physicists Claim They Solved a Big Problem in Quantum Physics
  7. What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI
  8. There’s a Third Type of Particle and We Never Knew
  9. New Study Finds Alien Life Must Be Similar To Us
  10. Physicists Claim This $2 Billion Experiment Can Tell Us Why We Exist
  11. Community Notes are a Bad Idea
  12. Climate Engineering Is Coming, But Not Like You Think.
  13. Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works
  14. I Believe The Universe Might Be Able To Think.
  15. Have Researchers Found The First Evidence For String Theory?
  16. Is Carbon Dioxide Removal the Next Stock Market Bubble?
  17. String Theory Can Be Proven Wrong, String Theorists Say
  18. Will We Get AGI In 2025?
  19. The Hydrogen Bubble Is Finally Bursting
  20. Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why?
  21. Climate Scientists are Very Confused
  22. Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds

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December 2024

  1. Civilization as we know it is ending, prominent forecaster says
  2. Jeff Bezos’ Strange Space Vision
  3. Physicists Claim They Solved Schrödinger's Cat Problem
  4. This Physicist Says We’re Using Maths Entirely Wrong
  5. This Firm Says It’s 6 Years Away From Making Energy From Fusion
  6. Scientists See Hidden Order in Quantum Chaos: A First
  7. Science Does Not Work By Consensus – Don’t Poll Us
  8. The Biggest Physics Stories of 2024
  9. Neil Degrasse Tyson & The Trans Athlete Issue
  10. Why Musk Is Wrong About Mars
  11. US Government Tries to Discredit UAP Witnesses, New Allegations Reveal
  12. No, Google Did Not Prove that Parallel Universes Exist
  13. String Theory Isn’t Dead
  14. This Physics Problem Can’t Be Solved
  15. The Thesis that Killed Academia?
  16. Our Sun Can Make Superflares Once a Century, Scary Study Finds
  17. Universe Had Two Big Bangs, Physicists Say
  18. Scientists Move Over: AIs Predict Research Results Without Doing Research
  19. What Would Change with a “New Physics” Breakthrough?
  20. New Study Deepens Mystery of Life’s Origin
  21. Theory of Everything Predicts New Physics For Supermassive Black Holes
  22. Moore’s Law is So Back
  23. Quantum Tech Could Be Used in Warfare, Scientists Warn.
  24. The Crisis in Cosmology Just Got So Much Worse

November 2024

  1. Is the Universe Infinite or Finite?
  2. Huge Physics Anomaly Finally Put to Test, But That Just Makes it More Confusing
  3. We’ve Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say (and they have a point)
  4. AI Could Soon Make Quantum Computing Obsolete, Nobel Prize Winner Says
  5. We are unlikely to be in this universe, new study finds. Multiverse falsified?
  6. Why Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles
  7. Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares
  8. Storytelling Beats Facts in Social Media Mental Health Battle
  9. New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome
  10. AI Scaling Hits the Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it?
  11. Science is in trouble and it worries me.
  12. “New Evidence” That CO2 Doesn’t Cause Global Warming? I Don’t Think So.
  13. This New Energy Storage Idea Makes A Lot Of Sense
  14. Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes
  15. Why Our Dreams of a Final Theory Might Remain Dreams
  16. Self-Censorship is Rising, And It’s a Problem
  17. My problem with the black hole information loss problem
  18. Space-Filling Aether Theory Makes Comeback
  19. The Problem with Flying Cars
  20. Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws
  21. The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing
  22. Did the Black Hole Information Paradox just Disappear?
  23. Democracy is having a hard time

October 2024

  1. The Amplituhedron: Why Space-Time Is Not Doomed
  2. Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem
  3. This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery”, researchers claim
  4. A New Pattern in Nature
  5. “Neutral Science is Undesirable” Climate Scientists Argue
  6. This Theory of Everything Could Actually Work: Wolfram’s Hypergraphs
  7. AI Can’t Reason. Should It Drive Cars?
  8. Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything
  9. New Alien Signal Rumour -- What's Behind It?
  10. Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says
  11. The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun
  12. New Theory: Is the Universe a Bubble? I had a look
  13. Scam or Breakthrough? Energy Saving with Electron Spins
  14. A Watched Quantum State Doesn’t Change. Really?
  15. Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All
  16. I Didn’t Believe In AI Coding. I Was Right.
  17. These recent scientific fraud cases worry me a lot
  18. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics -- This physicist is very surprised
  19. Superconducting Cables are Coming. I’m Not Joking
  20. “People Don’t Realize This” about Climate Change, Elon Musk Says
  21. This is why physics is dying
  22. These physicists think they know what's inside a black hole
  23. Negative Time is Real, Physicists Confirm. Kind Of.
  24. New Theory of Consciousness Explains Why Zombies Don’t Exist
  25. Who Will Win This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics? My Speculations

September 2024

  1. Lasers But They’re Made Of Sound
  2. Trying to “Free” AI
  3. This Lawsuit Could Change Science
  4. Please... No more Loop Quantum Gravity
  5. Is everyone just talking nonsense about AI now?
  6. This Could Test the Quantum Twin Paradox
  7. Chances for CERN’s Mega-Collider are Sinking
  8. Near-Collision With Other Star Jumbled Up Our Solar System, Physicists Says
  9. No, Einstein Didn’t Solve the Biggest Problem in Physics
  10. AI Feels the Data Crunch
  11. An Electromagnetic Vortex Cannon, Finally!
  12. German Company Reinvents the Wheel: Wundertech or Hype?
  13. Who pays for all the quantum crap? Probably you
  14. This New Idea to Detect a Quantum of Gravity Might Just Work
  15. A new theory of everything just dropped!
  16. Cat Becomes Well-Cited Scholar With New Scam Method
  17. Is it Eugenics to Breed for Intelligence?
  18. Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense
  19. Coal Better Than Gas? Headline-Making Report Full Of Mistakes
  20. The Nightmare Scenario for Dark Matter is Inching Closer
  21. I Said Hybrids Were The Future. Was I Right?

August 2024

  1. Oh No! Quantum Trading Is Back
  2. Core Meltdown Emergency Test At Chinese Nuclear Reactor
  3. Climate Tipping Points are Real, Stop Denying It
  4. Frozen Bees on the Moon
  5. Whistleblower Report Reveals Fermilab's Troubles
  6. Goodbye Meat, Hello Crickets: The Future of Food
  7. German Techno-Realist vs American Techno-Optimist
  8. Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness After All?
  9. Will This Crazy Idea Make Mars Habitable?
  10. This Could Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem
  11. Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication
  12. Are childless people a problem?
  13. Is the AI Bubble Popping?
  14. Crazy New Physics Anomaly: Anti-Matter Helium Detected
  15. Is the AI Left-Bias Real?
  16. A Dark Matter Detector the Size of Planet Jupiter
  17. New quantum computing paradigm could make all the difference
  18. How I lost trust in scientists
  19. Musk promises superhuman vision, Experts say it’s nonsense
  20. The Real Problem With Warp Drives
  21. Time is an Illusion, And These Physicists Say They Know How It Works
  22. "Climate Change is a Myth" -- A Nobel Prize Winner's Embarrassing Ideas
  23. Random Code Can Learn to Self-Replicate, New Study Finds
  24. How could we tell whether AI has become conscious?
  25. Dark Matter Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem

July 2024

  1. New nuclear fuel "could be used to make a practical weapon", experts warn
  2. Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All, New Study Says
  3. Groundbreaking New Solar Energy System – Too Good to be True?
  4. The Trouble With Heat Pumps
  5. “What one trillion dollar problem will AI solve?” – Business Analysts Ask
  6. Americans Sue to Remain Misinformed
  7. Costs explode for Nuclear Fusion Flagship project
  8. New Cold Fusion Device Generates Heat, Company Claims
  9. From Space Thruster to Nappy Bin: Plasmas are Everywhere
  10. Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check
  11. Why don't we have better robots yet?
  12. This Climate Graph has a Nasty Secret
  13. Should You Invest in Quantum Computing Stocks?
  14. New Batteries: It's not all hype
  15. This Quantum Puzzle Tripped Me Up
  16. The Hydrogen Economy is Expensive Nonsense
  17. Micro Fractals Could be Key to New Quantum Computers
  18. Stop blaming fossil fuel companies – Climate Change is our own fault
  19. Time ran slower in the past, study finds
  20. Why I'm embarrassed to be German
  21. AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say
  22. Physicists Claim They Can Send Particles Into the Past
  23. Why Bill Gates’ New Natrium Reactor is a Big Deal

June 2024

  1. GPT passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed
  2. What will they think about us in 2085?
  3. Superintelligent AI Will Try to Control Us, Geoffrey Hinton Says
  4. MOND is so back
  5. String Theorists Have Calculated the Value of Pi
  6. Why do people hate scientists?
  7. Climate scientists can’t agree on how warm it is
  8. Biggest Self-Own in Quantum Computing, Ever
  9. Gravity Without Mass Could Explain Dark Matter
  10. This New Idea Could Explain Complexity
  11. Dark Energy comes from Anti-Universe, New Theory Says
  12. Big News for Quantum Computing: First Scalable Platforms
  13. Is the intelligence explosion near? A reality check.
  14. This could test Stephen Hawking’s prediction
  15. AI Learned to Lie Deliberately (but it’s kinda funny)
  16. The Benefits of Climate Change
  17. Why Bitcoin Mining is Good for the Environment -- And why it isn't
  18. “Are we the idiots?” – Bill Gates on Planting Trees
  19. Musk is Right: Neutrinos Are Evidence for New Physics
  20. AI’s Dirty Little Secret
  21. The Hypersonic Arms Race: What You Need to Know
  22. Howard's Theory of Everything is Nonsense, but I try to Say it Nicely

May 2024

  1. How to Detect Quantum Bullshit
  2. Seven Candidates for Dyson Spheres
  3. This Huge Cosmology Problem Might Just Have Disappeared
  4. Unapproved Trial for Discredited COVID Cure: Scandal In France
  5. The real problem with AI is us
  6. The physics of portals (made with love)
  7. Climate Change Violates Human Rights, Court Finds
  8. Space-Based Solar Power is Dead
  9. Universe Was Once Divided into Cells, New Study Says
  10. Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
  11. A new test for quantum gravity
  12. Time to get real about climate change
  13. Rapid Advances in Geothermal Energy
  14. Does "Quark" Rhyme to "Dark"?
  15. Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds
  16. CERN Looks for Origins of Quantum Randomness
  17. Scientific Progress is Slowing Down. But Why?
  18. The era of nuclear precision has begun
  19. NASA named an asteroid after me
  20. How does gravity escape a black hole?
  21. Why Flat Earthers Scare Me
  22. Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cattle, Farm Worker Infected, Virus Fragments in Milk
  23. Many Worlds Theory Gets Even More Worlds
  24. Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully

April 2024

  1. New Experiment Could Settle 100 Years-Old Debate about Quantum Tunnelling
  2. 7 Strange Coincidences in the Laws of Nature
  3. Scandal over Nuclear Phase-Out in Germany: What We Know
  4. I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed my Mind.
  5. Breakthrough Tech Makes Energy from Air – Really?
  6. Are we surrounded by dark energy? A spacecraft tetrad will look for it
  7. Institute for Extinction Risk Shuts Down: What We Know
  8. Does time stop for light?
  9. The Prof who Looked for Love and Ended up in Prison: The Supermodel Scam
  10. AI More Energy Efficient than Humans, New Study Finds
  11. Modified Gravity Strikes Back
  12. This Fusion Startup is a Strong Newcomer
  13. The "Worst Prediction" Was Never Made
  14. Gravitational Waves Necessary for Human Existence, New Study Finds
  15. Warp Drives: New Simulations
  16. Randomness Improves Computation, No Really
  17. Electric Highways: A good idea?
  18. Musk: Are Quantum Computers even good for Something?
  19. Climate Change Slows Rotation of Earth, New Study Finds
  20. New Superconductor Scandal: What We Know So Far
  21. Are wildfires good?
  22. My first total eclipse: What I am looking forward to
  23. This Self-Heating Concrete Melts Snow – No Power Needed
  24. How I fell out of love with academia
  25. How AI could kill us -- or save us
  26. Search for Quantum Foam Begins at South Pole
  27. CERN's new Ghost experiment could find "hidden" particles
  28. The Hype you Didn’t Notice: The Quantum Internet
  29. Sulphur as Energy Storage -- Gamechanger?

March 2024

  1. Quantum Gravity Breaks Causality -- And You Can Compute With It
  2. Quantum Cognition: Does it explain irrational decisions?
  3. 20 Years-Old Puzzle (Almost) Solved: The Muon Anomaly
  4. Biggest Ever Quantum Vortex Created for Black Hole Simulation
  5. Should I be terrified of climate change? Should you be terrified?
  6. AI needs a LOT of energy. But that is not its main problem.
  7. Who Owns the Clouds? Cloud Seeding May Cause Global Water War
  8. Shots Fired for Nuclear Fusion, Literally
  9. Why is life left-handed? We might finally know
  10. Our Galaxy Has a Really Weird Black Hole
  11. We Need To Stop Lying about Plastic To Ourselves
  12. The Butterfly Effect is Much Worse Than We Thought
  13. Q-Day: When Quantum Computers Will Decode National Secrets
  14. Maths is about to revolutionize privacy
  15. Credentials against Deepfakes: How will it work?
  16. We need to start climate engineering soon
  17. D-wave reports stunning success with quantum simulation
  18. Three Physics Mysteries Solved At Once: Postquantum Gravity
  19. I just found out what .ai means
  20. Exploding stars made of dark matter could heat up universe
  21. Whatever happened to string theory?
  22. Heat Pumps Finally Make Sense -- Maybe
  23. Yes, AI will become sentient
  24. Compact Disks make Comeback: Memory could Exceed Petabytes
  25. Anti-matter for space-travel?
  26. Scientists warn of AI collapse
  27. New approach to quantum computing could soon beat IBM
  28. Black holes might be dark stars with layers: New solution found
  29. Astrophysicists keep finding things that “shouldn’t exist”. I think I know why.

February 2024

  1. First quantum measurement of gravity: What does it mean?
  2. Accurate predictions don't matter, climate scientists tell me
  3. Test of controversial quantum inertia propulsion didn't go as planned
  4. Revise the textbooks: New type of magnetism confirmed
  5. Do we create reality with our minds?
  6. Violating Energy Conservation to Explain Dark Energy
  7. Hydrogen might self-renew, reservoir found in France
  8. Bad News for Quantum Computing: Another Advantage Gone
  9. Chinese Maglev Breaks Speed Record: is this the future of transportation?
  10. Good News: Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors are Coming to Europe
  11. AI played wargames. The result isn't reassuring.
  12. Scientific Fraud is on the Rise and It will get worse
  13. New time crystal stable for more than 40 minutes: Nobel Prize possible
  14. The recent Toyota emissions scandal ist just the tip of the iceberg
  15. 5% of experts fear human extinction due to artificial intelligence
  16. Americans surprisingly rational about climate change, German study finds
  17. Physicists find that ageing is reversible -- in glass (sorry)
  18. Singularities might be everywhere -- and they might make up dark matter
  19. Climate Change Mitigation Plans Unrealistic and Potentially Dangerous, New Study Says
  20. Details Emerge about Huge New Particle Collider at CERN
  21. First Nuclear Fusion Control with Digital Twin
  22. Electric vehicles are great but lets be
  23. String theory nonsense makes comeback
  24. No Evidence that Social Media Affects Mental Health, Zuckerberg Says
  25. Supposed New Law of Nature Now Looks Like Statistical Error
  26. AI experts make predictions for 2040. I was a little surprised.
  27. The discovery of X-rays and what we can learn from it
  28. Typing makes dumb, new study says. Or does it?
  29. A Tsunami Devastated Stone-age Britain. Could it happen again?

January 2024

  1. First Experimental Test of Process that Might Have Created Universe
  2. AI makes stunning progress in logical reasoning
  3. Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
  4. Dark matter is not "Bunk Science"... But it has problems
  5. I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do.
  6. Clever New Experiment Looks for Quantum Jumps of Big Things
  7. How do we know that climate change is caused by humans?
  8. Fearless Icelanders to Drill Into Magma Chamber
  9. Extreme Weather Becomes Worse Faster Than Predicted
  10. Another Famous Quantum Mystery Was Just Debunked (it wasn't me)
  11. Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube
  12. You Probably Don't Know Why You Really Have Mass
  13. Astrophysicists Find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist
  14. Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn From My Mistakes
  15. New Cancer Therapy with Particle Beam Flashes goes to Trial
  16. This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market
  17. Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew!
  18. Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe?
  19. New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared
  20. A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth
  21. It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing
  22. Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field
  23. This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing
  24. Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says
  25. Will the world end? A physicist's reply
  26. They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared.

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December 2023

  1. The true cost of nuclear power
  2. Nuclear Power Comeback Update: Poland Authorizes Small Modular Reactors
  3. You are now accelerating: What it means that gravity is not a force
  4. Life could have begun in an interstellar gas cloud
  5. The experiment that could save physics
  6. Is there science behind a fossil fuel phaseout?
  7. Particle physicists make wishlist. I'm underwhelmed.
  8. There's a mysterious dark patch in the Milky Way, and it's weirder than we thought.
  9. Quantum Computers cross 1000 Qubits Threshold! What does this mean?
  10. Complexity: The biggest gap in modern science
  11. Climate change to force people indoors earlier than expected
  12. First transatlantic flight with sustainable fuel. Is this the future of flying?
  13. Black Hole Singularities "Faith, not science!" Prominent Physicist Claims
  14. String Theory gets Competition: A New Attempt to Solve Physics' Biggest Mystery
  15. NASA Succeeds with Deep Space Communication Test
  16. Social media doesn't affect your emotional life, new study finds
  17. They found a reliable way to create antibubbles
  18. Bitcoin mining could help energy transition, researchers say
  19. This drone saved 6 lives
  20. These scientists got sued for doing their job
  21. Experiment finds weird atomic nucleus with dumbbell shape
  22. Move over LHC: This particle accelerator is just 10 cm long
  23. This experiment will measure nothing, but very precisely: The quantum vacuum
  24. The Best Sleep Advice -- According to Science

November 2023

  1. Why was Sam Altman fired from OpenAI? 3 Theories
  2. Long COVID is real, but may be overestimated
  3. Mars glows green - and it's not an aurora
  4. Is Science Dying?
  5. New Gaia data might just have killed MOND
  6. I think net zero goals are bonkers, here's why
  7. Asteroid dust killed dinosaurs, new study says
  8. Physicist reacts to quantum mechanics
  9. The sun's magnetic field will probably flip sooner than expected

October 2023

  1. Ozempic and Wegovy: All you need to know about the new weight-loss drugs
  2. Coin tosses are not fair -- science says so
  3. How does quantum mechanics give rise to parallel universes?
  4. 3 New Laws of Nature in One Week!
  5. Is time travel possible?
  6. Planet Mercury is Shrinking
  7. Quantum Computing Newcomers: 2023 Update
  8. Physics Nobel Prize 2023 for Super-Short Laser Pulses

September 2023

  1. How I reached 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube -- And you can, too.
  2. Quantum Computing at Room Temperature?
  3. Does the Universe have a Purpose?
  4. Possible signs of life on an exoplanet
  5. Don't trust me, I'm an influencer
  6. Climate scientist boasts about fudging own paper
  7. All you need to know about web3
  8. Capitalism is good. Let me explain

August 2023

  1. Do your own research. But do it right.
  2. Quantum Superchemistry: First Experimental Observation
  3. A global mental health crisis? Really?
  4. Sun is brighter than we thought
  5. How Dead is Moore's Law?
  6. Superconductor LK99 Update
  7. Evidence for new physics? Or not?

July 2023

  1. LK99 -- A new room temperature superconductor?
  2. How to spot and avoid greenwashing
  3. Einstein was right, again!
  4. Electric Vehicles: How difficult will the transition be?
  5. How scientific are personality tests?
  6. Evidence for Dark Stars in Webb Telescope Data
  7. Gravity Hole Explained
  8. Quantum mechanics is nonlocal, but what does that mean?
  9. First Evidence that Time Ran Slower in the Early Universe
  10. Do we need IQ tests for AI?

June 2023

  1. First Detection of Gravitational Waves With Pulsars (Probably)
  2. Is the microchip shortage over yet?
  3. Plants use quantum mechanics
  4. The second law of thermodynamics has a major flaw.
  5. Evidence against dark matter that might also be evidence for dark matter.
  6. Can we build better humans? Transhumanism and Biohacking
  7. A news search for dark matter and a quantum navigation system
  8. Has Physics Ruled out Free Will?

May 2023

  1. New Evidence Against Big Bounce Models
  2. Is the bird flu the next pandemic?
  3. D-wave claims quantum advantage, superconductor claim does not reproduce, a skeptical take on e-fuels & more science news from this week
  4. Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent?
  5. Science News May 17
  6. The Origin of Life: How much do we know?
  7. Science News May 10
  8. What's next for AI?
  9. Science News May 3: Wave-like Dark Matter?

April 2023

  1. Is being trans a social fad among teenagers?
  2. Science News April 26: This could explain why the sun's corona is so hot
  3. Realistic Expectations for Quantum Computing
  4. Science News April 19: AI Rediscovers Einstein's Time-Dilation, Solar Flares in the Lab, A Strange Star, and More
  5. We Could Beam Solar Energy Down From Space. But Should We?
  6. Science News April 12: An Exoplanet with Magnetic Field, A New Isotope of Uranium, Quantum Spectroscopy, And More
  7. I think faster than light travel is possible. Here's why.
  8. Science News April 5
  9. Addicted to social media -- Is this even possible?

March 2023

  1. Science News March 29: ATLAS Checks W-Boson Anomaly, New Explanation for 'Oumuamua, Hydrogen Airplane Test Flight & More!
  2. Collective Stupidity
  3. Science News March 22
  4. The Race to Nuclear Fustion: Start-up Overview
  5. Science News March 15: What's Up With the New Superconductor Breakthrough?
  6. I believe chatbots partly understand what they chat about. Let me explain.
  7. Science News March 8: A new LHC anomaly
  8. Marijuana: Legalize or not?
  9. Webb finds galaxies too big to exist. Science News March 1

February 2023

  1. An Air Condition for the Planet: How Could It Work?
  2. Is Dark Energy Made of Black Holes? Science News Feb 22
  3. The Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy
  4. Science News Feb 15
  5. What's going wrong in particle physics?
  6. Science News Feb 8: Germany Wants to Bring Back Direct Current
  7. How the Greenhouse Effect Really Works
  8. Science News Feb 1: What's Up With Earth's Core? A Quantum Computer folds a Mini-Protein. NASA's Nuclear Rocket, and More

January 2023

  1. Genetic Screening: Risk and Benefits
  2. Science News Jan 25
  3. Can the Gulf Stream Collapse?
  4. The Trouble(s) With Hydrogen
  5. Science News Jan 18
  6. Science News Jan 11
  7. Can Time Really Slow Down?

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December 2022

  1. Human Extinction: How High is the Risk?
  2. How Chaos Control is Changing The World
  3. Science News Dec 21
  4. Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media?
  5. Science News Dec 14
  6. The Other Side Of Physics (TEDxNewcastle)
  7. How Does Quantum Uncertainty Work?
  8. Science News Dec 7
  9. Calorie Labels: What Do They Tell You?
  10. Guest Post: Collider Rap by Mike Battaglia and GPT-3

November 2022

  1. Science News Nov 30
  2. Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?
  3. Science News Nov 23
  4. Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link?
  5. Science News Nov 16
  6. Why are male testosterone levels falling?
  7. Science News Nov 9
  8. Quantum Winter Is Coming
  9. Science News Nov 2

October 2022

  1. What Do Longtermists Want?
  2. Science News Oct 26
  3. What If the Effect Comes Before the Cause?
  4. Science News Oct 19
  5. Why are we getting fatter?
  6. Science News Oct 12
  7. Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem)
  8. The First Ever Episode of Science News Without the Gobbledygook
  9. Can we make flying "Green"?

September 2022

  1. I’ve said it all before but here we go again
  2. Book Review “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion” by Sean Carroll
  3. What is "Nothing"?
  4. The New Meta-Materials for Superlenses and Invisibility Cloaks
  5. The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience?
  6. The Trouble with 5G

August 2022

  1. We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
  2. No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage
  3. Science With the Gobbledygook
  4. How to compute with a computer that doesn't compute
  5. If You Need a Break, Try Some Physics. (By which I really mean, please buy my new book.)

July 2022

  1. Is the brain a computer?
  2. Does the Past Still Exist?
  3. How do painkillers work?
  4. Quantum Games -- Really!
  5. Are we too many people or too few?

June 2022

  1. Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse?
  2. Why does science news suck so much?
  3. Can particles really be in two places at once?
  4. Trans women in sports: Is this fair?

May 2022

  1. Chaos: The Real Problem with Quantum Mechanics
  2. The closest we have to a Theory of Everything
  3. The Superdetermined Workshop finally took place
  4. Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
  5. How Bad is Diesel?

April 2022

  1. Did the W-boson just "break the standard model"?
  2. I stopped working on black hole information loss. Here’s why.
  3. How serious is antibiotic resistance?
  4. Is Nuclear Power Green?
  5. How close is wireless power technology?

March 2022

  1. These Experiments Could Prove Einstein Wrong
  2. Optimist meets Doomsayer
  3. These tiny robots could work inside your body
  4. Is light pollution a real problem?
  5. Did the early universe inflate?

February 2022

  1. Will the Big Bang repeat?
  2. An update on the status of superdeterminism with some personal notes
  3. Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist?
  4. Epic Fights in Science
  5. What did COVID do to life expectancy?

January 2022

  1. What may the new James Webb telescope discover?
  2. Can animals sense earthquakes?
  3. Does the sun cause earthquakes? (It's not as crazy as it sounds.)
  4. Are warp drives science now?
  5. Do Climate Models predict Extreme Weather?
  6. What’s the difference between American English and British English?

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December 2021

  1. We wish you a nerdy Xmas!
  2. Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or Does It Kill Free Will and Destroy Science?
  3. Public Event in Canada coming up in April
  4. Is the Hyperloop just Hype?
  5. Where is the antimatter?

November 2021

  1. Does Anti-Gravity Explain Dark Energy?
  2. The 3 Best Explanations for the Havana Syndrome
  3. Why can elementary particles decay?
  4. New book now available for pre-order
  5. How bad is plastic?

October 2021

  1. The delayed choice quantum eraser, debunked
  2. Comments now on Patreon
  3. Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?
  4. Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps
  5. How I learned to love pseudoscience
  6. How close is nuclear fusion power?

September 2021

  1. [Guest Post] Brian Keating: How to Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner
  2. Where did the Big Bang happen?
  3. The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos?
  4. The Second Quantum Revolution
  5. New Evidence against the Standard Model of Cosmology

August 2021

  1. Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment.
  2. Everything vibrates. It really does.
  3. Physicist Despairs over Vacuum Energy
  4. Why the Hype around Hypersonics?

July 2021

  1. Are we made of math? Is math real?
  2. Can Physics Be Too Speculative?
  3. What’s the Fifth Force?
  4. How Dangerous are Solar Storms?
  5. Can we make a new universe?

June 2021

  1. How artificial intelligence reads minds
  2. Asteroid Mining – A fast way to get rich?
  3. 2+2 doesn't always equal 4
  4. Why do we see things that aren't there?

May 2021

  1. What does the universe expand into? Do we expand with it?
  2. The Climate Book You Didn’t Know You Need
  3. Aliens that weren't aliens
  4. Quantum Computing: Top Players 2021
  5. What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
  6. Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
  7. Google talk online now

April 2021

  1. Particle Physics Discoveries That Disappeared
  2. All you need to know about Elon Musk’s Carbon Capture Prize
  3. Does the Universe have higher dimensions? Part 2
  4. Talk at Google -- Livestream 6pm CET today
  5. Does the Universe have Higher Dimensions? Part 1
  6. Should Stephen Hawking have won the Nobel Prize?

March 2021

  1. Is the universe REALLY a hologram?
  2. Whatever happened to Life on Venus?
  3. Live Seminar about Dark Matter on Friday
  4. Can we stop hurricanes?
  5. Do Complex Numbers Exist?

February 2021

  1. Schrödinger’s Cat – Still Not Dead
  2. What's up with the Ozone Layer?
  3. The Science of Making Rain
  4. Science without the gobbledygook
  5. The Simulation Hypothesis is Pseudoscience
  6. Don't Fall for Quantum Hype

January 2021

  1. Has Protein Folding Been Solved?
  2. Where do atoms come from?
  3. Was the universe made for us?
  4. The Mathematics of Consciousness

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December 2020

  1. Well, Actually. 10 Physics Answers.
  2. What is radiation? How harmful is it?
  3. How to speak English like Einstein
  4. All you need to know about 5G
  5. Are Singularities Real?
  6. Is Infinity Real?

November 2020

  1. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  2. Warp Drive News. Seriously!
  3. The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it’s unsolvable.
  4. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #8: The Tunnel Effect
  5. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #7: Energy Levels
  6. Guestpost: "Launch of the Initiative 'For a Smarter Science'" by Daniel Moreno

October 2020

  1. What is Energy? Is Energy Conserved?
  2. A new model for the COVID pandemic
  3. Herd Immunity, Facts and Numbers
  4. How can climate be predictable if weather is chaotic?
  5. Particle Physicists Continue To Make Empty Promises
  6. I Can’t Forget [Remix]
  7. David Bohm’s Pilot Wave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  8. You don’t have free will, but don’t worry.
  9. [Guest Post] New on BackRe(action): Real-Time Chat Rooms
  10. What are Differential Equations and how do they work?

September 2020

  1. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #6: It’s not just a theory for small things.
  2. Follow the Science? Nonsense, I say.
  3. What is quantum cryptography and how does it work?
  4. Path Dependence and Tipping Points
  5. What is a singular limit?

August 2020

  1. Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
  2. Your sudden enthusiasm for virtual meetings is beginning to worry me
  3. Flat Earth “Science”: Wrong, but not Stupid
  4. Theories of Everything [I've been singing again]
  5. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #5: Decoherence
  6. Really Big Experiments That Physicists Dream Of
  7. What is the equivalence principle?

July 2020

  1. Einstein’s Greatest Legacy: Thought Experiments
  2. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #4: It’s not as difficult as you think! (The Bra-Ket)
  3. Do we need a Theory of Everything?
  4. [Guest Post] Update of Converseful comment feature now allows for more conversations
  5. What is Quantum Metrology?

June 2020

  1. Is COVID there before you measure it?
  2. Guest Post: “Who Needs a Giant New Collider?” by Alessandro Strumia
  3. How to tell science from pseudoscience
  4. How to search for alien life
  5. Ode to Joy [I've been singing again]
  6. Physicists still lost in math

May 2020

  1. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #3: Non-locality
  2. Is faster-than-light travel possible?
  3. Talk To Me [I've been singing again]
  4. Book Update
  5. [Guest Post] Conversful 101: Explaining What’s In The Bottom Corner Of Your Screen
  6. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #2: Superposition and Entanglement
  7. A brief history of black holes
  8. Predictions are overrated

April 2020

  1. Book Review: “The Dream Universe” by David Lindley
  2. Book Review: “A Philosophical Approach To MOND” by David Merritt
  3. The Raven Paradox
  4. New blog feature: Chat with other commenters
  5. No, physicists have not explained why there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe. It’s not possible.
  6. Understanding Quantum Mechanics #1: It's not about discreteness
  7. How Heisenberg Became Uncertain
  8. The Greenhouse Blues [I'm not singing, I swear]
  9. What is Reductionism?
  10. What is emergence? What does “emergent” mean?

March 2020

  1. It's the end of the world as we know it, coronavirus edition [I've been singing again]
  2. Are dark energy and dark matter scientific?
  3. Unpredictability, Undecidability, and Uncomputability
  4. Coronavirus? I have nothing to add.
  5. Essays, Elsewhere
  6. Is Gravity a Force?
  7. How good is the evidence for Dark Energy?

February 2020

  1. 14 Years BackRe(Action)
  2. Quantum Gravity in the Lab? The Hype Is On.
  3. The 10 Most Important Physics Effects
  4. The Reproducibility Crisis: An Interview with Prof. Dorothy Bishop
  5. Guest Post: “Undecidability, Uncomputability and the Unity of Physics. Part 2.” by Tim Palmer
  6. Philosophers should talk more about climate change. Yes, philosophers.
  7. Ivory Tower [I've been singing again]
  8. Guest Post: “Undecidability, Uncomputability and the Unity of Physics. Part 1.” by Tim Palmer
  9. Does nature have a minimal length?

January 2020

  1. Do Black Holes Echo?
  2. Travel and Book Update
  3. How to test quantum gravity
  4. Update January 2020
  5. The Real Butterfly Effect

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December 2019

  1. My most read blogposts of the decade
  2. How did the universe begin?
  3. Monty Python's Galaxy Song [I've been singing again]
  4. What does a theoretical physicist do?
  5. The path we didn’t take
  6. How Scientists Can Avoid Cognitive Bias
  7. Why the laws of nature are not inevitable, never have been, and never will be.
  8. Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?

November 2019

  1. Dark energy might not exist after all
  2. What is Dark Energy?
  3. What can artificial intelligence do for physics? And what will it do to physics?
  4. Can we tell if there’s a wormhole in the Milky-Way?
  5. Did scientists get climate change wrong?
  6. How can we test a Theory of Everything?
  7. Have we really measured gravitational waves?

October 2019

  1. The crisis in physics is not only about physics
  2. A Million Miles [I've been singing again]
  3. What is the quantum measurement problem?
  4. Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
  5. What does the future hold for particle physics?
  6. Has Reductionism Run its Course?

September 2019

  1. Travel Update
  2. The Trouble with Many Worlds
  3. Windows Black Screen Nightmare
  4. Why do some scientists believe that our universe is a hologram?
  5. Book Review: “Something Deeply Hidden” by Sean Carroll
  6. Away Note
  7. The five most promising ways to quantize gravity
  8. What’s up with LIGO?

August 2019

  1. Solutions to the black hole information paradox
  2. How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
  3. You will probably not understand this
  4. How we know that Einstein's General Relativity cannot be quite right
  5. The Problem with Quantum Measurements
  6. Book Review: “The Secret Life of Science” by Jeremy Baumberg
  7. 10 differences between artificial intelligence and human intelligence
  8. Special Breakthrough Prize awarded for Supergravity
  9. Automated Discovery

July 2019

  1. The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism
  2. Science Shrugs
  3. When they ask us [I’ve been singing again]
  4. M is for Maggot, N is for Nonsense
  5. Away Note
  6. Why the multiverse is religion, not science.
  7. Because Science Matters
  8. No, we will not open a portal to a parallel universe
  9. Physicists still perplexed I ask for reasons to finance their research
  10. Job opening: Database specialist/Software engineer

June 2019

  1. Quantum Supremacy: What is it and what does it mean?
  2. Win a free copy of "Lost in Maths" in French
  3. 30 years from now, what will a next larger particle collider have taught us?
  4. Away Note
  5. No, a next larger particle collider will not tell us anything about the creation of the universe
  6. Brace for the oncoming deluge of dark matter detectors that won’t detect anything
  7. Book review: “Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution” by Lee Smolin
  8. Physicists are out to unlock the muon’s secret
  9. Guest Post: A conversation with Lee Smolin about his new book "Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution"
  10. Sometimes giving up is the smart thing to do.
  11. Book Review: “Beyond Weird” by Philip Ball
  12. If we spend money on a larger particle collider, we risk that progress in physics stalls.
  13. The multiverse hypothesis: Are there other universes besides our own?
  14. Does God exist? Science does not have an answer.

May 2019

  1. Quantum mechanics: Still mysterious after all these years
  2. Capitalism is good for you
  3. Do I exist?
  4. Does the Higgs-boson exist?
  5. Book and travel update
  6. 10 things you should know about black holes
  7. Climate Change: There are no simple solutions
  8. Quantum Mechanics is wrong. There, I’ve said it.
  9. The trouble with Facebook and what it has in common with scientific publishing.
  10. Admin note on invisible comments
  11. Measuring science the right way. Your way.
  12. Graham Farmelo’s interview of Edward Witten. Transcript.
  13. How to live without free will

April 2019

  1. My name is Cassandra [I've been singing again]
  2. Yes, scientific theories have to be falsifiable. Why do we even have to talk about this?
  3. Comments on “Quantum Gravity in the Lab” in Scientific American
  4. How Heroes Hurt Science
  5. The LHC has broken physics, according to this philosopher
  6. Away Note/Travel Update/Interna
  7. Does the world need a larger particle collider? [video]
  8. Is the universe a hologram? Gravitational wave interferometers may tell us.
  9. Dear Dr B: Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?

March 2019

  1. Nonsense arguments for building a bigger particle collider that I am tired of hearing (The Ultimate Collection)
  2. Superfluid Dark Matter [Video]
  3. Just Move (I’ve been singing again)
  4. Science has a problem. Here is how you can help.
  5. Particle physicists continue to spread misinformation about prospects of new collider
  6. Particle physicists excited over discovery of nothing in particular
  7. Motte and Bailey, Particle Physics Style
  8. Inflation: Status Update
  9. Merchants of Hype
  10. Check your Biases

February 2019

  1. Book review: “Breakfast with Einstein” by Chad Orzel
  2. Away Note
  3. Gian-Francesco Giudice On Future High-Energy Colliders
  4. Burton Richter on the Future of Particle Physics
  5. Never again confuse Dark Matter with Dark Energy
  6. Dark Matter – Or What?
  7. When gravity breaks down
  8. A philosopher of science reviews “Lost in Math”
  9. Why a larger particle collider is not currently a good investment
  10. String theory landscape predicts no new particles at the LHC
  11. Maybe I’m crazy
  12. A philosopher's take on “naturalness” in particle physics
  13. Particle physicists surprised to find I am not their cheer-leader

January 2019

  1. Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science.
  2. Book Update
  3. New Scientist creates a Crisis-Anticrisis Pair
  4. Particle physics may have reached the end of the line
  5. Letter from a reader: “Someone has to write such a book” we used to say
  6. Particle physicists want money for bigger collider
  7. Good Problems in the Foundations of Physics
  8. Book Review: “Quantum Space” by Jim Baggott
  9. The Real Problems with Artificial Intelligence
  10. Letter from a reader: “What’s so bad about randomness?”
  11. Book Update
  12. Electrons don’t think

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December 2018

  1. How the LHC may spell the end of particle physics
  2. Book review: “On The Future” by Martin Rees
  3. Happy Holidays
  4. Winter Solstice
  5. Don’t ask what science can do for you.
  6. New experiment cannot reproduce long-standing dark matter anomaly
  7. No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology
  8. CERN produces marketing video for new collider and it’s full of lies

November 2018

  1. Do women in physics get fewer citations than men?
  2. Away Note
  3. Book review: “The End of Science” by John Horgan
  4. Guest Post: Garrett Lisi on Geometric Naturalness
  5. The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
  6. New paper claims that LIGO’s gravitational wave detection from a neutron star merger can’t be right
  7. Modified gravity, demystified [video]
  8. Guest Post: Phillip Helbig reviews “Lost in Math”
  9. Self-driving car rewarded for speed learns to spin in circles. Or, how science works like a neural net.
  10. I'm hiring: Postdoc In Quantum Foundations in Frankfurt, Germany
  11. Book Review: “Rigor Mortis” by Richard Harris
  12. Story about LIGO noise resurfaces in New Scientist

October 2018

  1. Dark matter. Or what? [Video]
  2. Physics may be up against the wall, anno 1986
  3. Will it end? [In which I have breakfast with John Horgan]
  4. String theory pros and cons [video - no singing!]
  5. First stars spell trouble for dark matter
  6. Dear Dr B: What do you actually live from?
  7. Yes, women in science still have a disadvantage.
  8. Gender-bias in Academia: The Case Strumia
  9. You say theoretical physicists are doing their job all wrong. Don’t you doubt yourself?

September 2018

  1. Das hässliche Universum [book & travel update]
  2. Hawking temperature of black holes measured in fluid analogue
  3. Will you come to outer space? [Music Video]
  4. Book Review: “Making Sense of Science” by Cornelia Dean
  5. I’m now older than my father has ever been
  6. Superfluid dark matter passes another check: strong gravitational lensing
  7. Science has a problem, and we must talk about it

August 2018

  1. Dear Dr B: What does the universe expand into?
  2. Away Note
  3. Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of universal rebirth
  4. Guest Post: Tam Hunt questions Carlo Rovelli about the Nature of Time
  5. Book Review: “Through Two Doors at Once” by Anil Ananthaswamy
  6. Dear Dr B: Is it possible that there is a universe in every particle?
  7. Trostpreis (I’ve been singing again)

July 2018

  1. 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t
  2. Evidence for modified gravity is now evidence against it.
  3. SciMeter.org: A new tool for arXiv users
  4. What's the purpose of working in the foundations of physics?
  5. Away Note
  6. Limits of Reductionism

June 2018

  1. How nature became unnatural
  2. Particle Physics now Belly Up
  3. Astrophysicists try to falsify multiverse, find they can’t.
  4. Physicists are very predictable
  5. Lost in Math: Out Now.
  6. Are the laws of nature beautiful? (2nd book trailer)
  7. Video Trailer for "Lost in Math"
  8. Science Magazine had my book reviewed, and it’s glorious, glorious.
  9. Physicist concludes there are no laws of physics.
  10. Book Update: Books are printed!

May 2018

  1. New results confirm old anomaly in neutrino data
  2. What do physicists mean when they say the laws of nature are beautiful?
  3. This is how I pray
  4. The Overproduction Crisis in Physics and Why You Should Care About It
  5. Measuring Scientific Broadness
  6. Dear Dr B: Should I study string theory?
  7. Book Review: “The Only Woman In the Room” by Eileen Pollack

April 2018

  1. Me, Elsewhere
  2. A black hole merger... merger... merger
  3. Interna
  4. Guest Post: Brian Keating about his book “Losing the Nobel Prize"
  5. Book Review: “Losing the Nobel Prize” by Brian Keating
  6. No, that galaxy without dark matter has not ruled out modified gravity
  7. Particle Physicists begin to invent reasons to build next larger Particle Collider
  8. Book Review: “Farewell to Reality” by Jim Baggott

March 2018

  1. Why Black Stars Aren’t A Thing.
  2. Modified Gravity and the Radial Acceleration Relation, Again
  3. Hawking’s “Final Theory” is not groundbreaking
  4. Stephen Hawking dies at 76. What was he famous for?
  5. The Multiworse Is Coming
  6. Book Update: German Cover Image
  7. Book Review: “Richie Doodles,” a picture book about Richard Feynman by M. J. Mouton and J. S. Cuevas
  8. Who is crazy now? (In which I am stunned to encounter people who agree with me that naturalness is nonsense.)

February 2018

  1. Shut up and simulate. (In which I try to understand how dark matter forms galaxies, and end up very confused.)
  2. What does it mean for string theory that the LHC has not seen supersymmetric particles?
  3. Book Update: First Review!
  4. Which problems make good research problems?

January 2018

  1. Physics Facts and Figures
  2. More Multiverse Madness
  3. Pure Nerd Fun: The Grasshopper Problem
  4. Book Review: “The Dialogues” by Clifford Johnson
  5. Superfluid dark matter gets seriously into business
  6. Me, elsewhere
  7. Sometimes I believe in string theory. Then I wake up.

2017 73

December 2017

  1. Merry Christmas!
  2. Get your protons right!
  3. Research perversions are spreading. You will not like the proposed solution.
  4. The cosmological constant is not the worst prediction ever. It’s not even a prediction.

November 2017

  1. If science is what scientists do, what happens if scientists stop doing science?
  2. Astrophysicist discovers yet another way to screw yourself over when modifying Einstein’s theory
  3. How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years?
  4. Away Note
  5. Naturalness is dead. Long live naturalness.
  6. How Popper killed Particle Physics
  7. Book Review: Max Tegmark “Our Mathematical Universe”

October 2017

  1. No, you still cannot probe quantum gravity with quantum optics
  2. Book Update
  3. New gravitational wave detection with optical counterpart rules out some dark matter alternatives
  4. Space may not be as immaterial as we thought
  5. I totally mean it: Inflation never solved the flatness problem.
  6. Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory? Not anymore.
  7. What could we learn from quantum gravity? [Video]
  8. Yet another year in which you haven’t won a Nobel Prize!

September 2017

  1. Dear Dr B: Why are neutrinos evidence for physics beyond the standard model?
  2. The Quantum Quartet
  3. Interna
  4. Away Note
  5. Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: The Cat’s View

August 2017

  1. The annotated math of (almost) everything
  2. I was wrong. You were wrong too. Admit it.
  3. You don’t expand just because the universe does. Here’s why.
  4. Outraged about the Google diversity memo? I want you to think about it.
  5. Self-tuning brings wireless power closer to reality

July 2017

  1. New paper claims string theory can be tested with Bose-Einstein-Condensates
  2. Penrose claims LIGO noise is evidence for Cyclic Cosmology
  3. Nature magazine publishes comment on quantum gravity phenomenology, demonstrates failure of editorial oversight
  4. Stephen Hawking’s 75th Birthday Conference: Impressions

June 2017

  1. To understand the foundations of physics, study numerology
  2. Away Note
  3. Dear Dr B: Is science democratic?
  4. If tensions in cosmological data are not measurement problems, they probably mean dark energy changes
  5. What’s new in high energy physics? Clockworks.
  6. Dear Dr B: What are the chances of the universe ending out of nowhere due to vacuum decay?

May 2017

  1. Does parametric resonance solve the cosmological constant problem?
  2. Can we probe the quantization of the black hole horizon with gravitational waves?
  3. Can we use gravitational waves to rule out extra dimensions – and string theory with it?
  4. “Not a Toy” - New Video about Symmetry Breaking
  5. A Philosopher Tries to Understand the Black Hole Information Paradox
  6. Away Note
  7. In which I sing about Schrödinger’s cat
  8. May-day Pope-hope

April 2017

  1. Not all publicity is good publicity, not even in science.
  2. No, physicists have not created “negative mass”
  3. Catching Light – New Video!
  4. Book review: “A Big Bang in a Little Room” by Zeeya Merali
  5. Why doesn’t anti-matter anti-gravitate?
  6. Book review reviewed: “The Particle Zoo” by Gavin Hesketh
  7. Dear Dr. B: Why do physicists worry so much about the black hole information paradox?

March 2017

  1. Book rant: “Universal” by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
  2. Book review: “Anomaly!” by Tommaso Dorigo
  3. Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it?
  4. No, we probably don’t live in a computer simulation
  5. Is Verlinde’s Emergent Gravity compatible with General Relativity?
  6. Yes, a violation of energy conservation can explain the cosmological constant

February 2017

  1. Book Review: “The Particle Zoo” by Gavin Hesketh
  2. Fake news wasn’t hard to predict – But what’s next?
  3. Black Hole Information - Still Lost
  4. Away Note
  5. New Data from the Early Universe Does Not Rule Out Holography
  6. Testing Quantum Foundations With Atomic Clocks

January 2017

  1. What is Physics? [Video]
  2. Dark matter’s hideout just got smaller, thanks to supercomputers.
  3. What a burst! A fresh attempt to see space-time foam with gamma ray bursts.
  4. Stephen Hawking turns 75. Congratulations! Here’s what to celebrate.
  5. The Bullet Cluster as Evidence against Dark Matter
  6. How to use an "argument from authority"
  7. The 2017 Edge Annual Question: Which Scientific Term or Concept Ought To Be More Widely Known?

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December 2016

  1. Physics is good for your health
  2. Reasoning in Physics
  3. Book Review, “Why Quark Rhymes With Pork” by David Mermin
  4. Cosmic rays hint at new physics just beyond the reach of the LHC
  5. Away Note
  6. No, physicists have no fear of math. But they should have more respect.
  7. Can dark energy and dark matter emerge together with gravity?

November 2016

  1. Dear Dr. B: What is emergent gravity?
  2. This isn’t quantum physics. Wait. Actually it is.
  3. I wrote you a song.
  4. A new theory SMASHes problems
  5. Away Note
  6. Steven Weinberg doesn’t like Quantum Mechanics. So what?

October 2016

  1. Modified Gravity vs Particle Dark Matter. The Plot Thickens.
  2. The concordance model strikes back
  3. Dear Dr B: Where does dark energy come from and what’s it made of?
  4. What if dark matter is not a particle? The second wind of modified gravity.
  5. Demystifying Spin 1/2

September 2016

  1. Dear Dr B: What do physicists mean by “quantum gravity”?
  2. We understand gravity just fine, thank you.
  3. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2016
  4. I’ve read a lot of books recently
  5. Sorry, the universe wasn’t made for you

August 2016

  1. Dear Dr. B: How come we never hear of a force that the Higgs boson carries?
  2. What if the universe was like a pile of laundry?
  3. Away Note
  4. The Philosophy of Modern Cosmology (srsly)
  5. The Unbearable Lightness of Philosophy
  6. The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true.
  7. Math blind

July 2016

  1. Can we please agree what we mean by “Big Bang”?
  2. Can black holes tunnel to white holes?
  3. Pulsars could probe black hole horizons
  4. Why the LHC is such a disappointment: A delusion by name “naturalness”

June 2016

  1. Where can new physics hide?
  2. Wissenschaft auf Abwegen
  3. New study finds no sign of entanglement with other universes
  4. String phenomenology of the somewhat different kind
  5. Dear Dr B: Why not string theory?

May 2016

  1. Book Review: “Why String Theory?” by Joseph Conlon
  2. Away Note
  3. How can we test quantum gravity?
  4. The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what’s science – and what’s not.
  5. Dear Dr B: If photons have a mass, would this mean special relativity is no longer valid?
  6. Book review: “The Big Picture” by Sean Carroll
  7. Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2016

April 2016

  1. If you fall into a black hole
  2. Dear Dr B: Why is Lorentz-invariance in conflict with discreteness?
  3. Dark matter might connect galaxies through wormholes
  4. 10 Essentials of Quantum Mechanics
  5. New link between quantum computing and black hole may solve information loss problem
  6. 3 Billion Years Old Math Problem Solved by Prodigy Fetus

March 2016

  1. Dear Dr. B: What are the requirements for a successful theory of quantum gravity?
  2. Hey Bill Nye, Please stop talking nonsense about quantum mechanics.
  3. Can we get some sympathy for the nerdy loners please?
  4. Researchers propose experiment to measure the gravitational force of milli-gram objects, reaching almost into the quantum realm.
  5. A new era of science
  6. Dear Dr. B: What is the difference between entanglement and superposition?
  7. Tim Gowers and I have something in common. Unfortunately it’s not our math skills.

February 2016

  1. "Rate your Supervisor" comes to High Energy Physics
  2. 10 Years BackRe(action)
  3. Too many anti-neutrinos: Evidence builds for new anomaly
  4. Dear Dr Bee: Can LIGO’s gravitational wave detection tell us something about quantum gravity?
  5. What makes an idea worthy? An interview with Anthony Aguirre
  6. Everything you need to know about gravitational waves
  7. Much Ado around Nothing: The Cosmological non-Constant Problem
  8. Me, Elsewhere

January 2016

  1. Does the arXiv censor submissions?
  2. Hello from Maui
  3. Is space-time a prism?
  4. Messengers from the Dark Age
  5. Away Note
  6. Book review: “From the Great Wall to the Great Collider” by Nadis and Yau
  7. Free will is dead, let’s bury it.
  8. More information emerges about new proposal to solve black hole information loss problem
  9. Finding space-time quanta in the cosmic microwave background: Not so simple

2015 90

December 2015

  1. Book review: “Beyond the Galaxy” by Ethan Siegel
  2. How does a lightsaber work? Here is my best guess.
  3. Book review: “Seven brief lessons on physics” by Carlo Rovelli
  4. Dear Dr B: Is string theory science?
  5. Is light a wave or a particle?
  6. Ask Dr B: Is the multiverse science? Is the multiverse real?
  7. No, you don’t need general relativity to ride a hoverboard.
  8. Quantum gravity could be observable in the oscillation frequency of heavy quantum states
  9. What Fermilab’s Holometer Experiment teaches us about Quantum Gravity.
  10. Peer Review and its Discontents [slide show]
  11. Hawking radiation is not produced at the black hole horizon.

November 2015

  1. Away note
  2. Dear Dr B: Can you think of a single advancement in theoretical physics, other than speculation, since the early 1980's?
  3. The scientific method is not a myth
  4. I am hiring: Postdoc in AdS/CFT applications to condensed matter
  5. Mysteriously quiet space baffles researchers
  6. Dear Dr. B: What do physicists mean when they say time doesn’t exist?
  7. Another new social networking platform for scientists: Loop
  8. New music video
  9. Dumb Holes Leak

October 2015

  1. What is basic science and what is it good for?
  2. Black holes and academic walls
  3. Book review: Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser
  4. A newly proposed table-top experiment might be able to demonstrate that gravity is quantized
  5. Repost in celebration of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: Neutrino masses and angles
  6. Book Review: “A Beautiful Question” by Frank Wilczek
  7. Service Announcement: Backreaction now on facebook!
  8. When string theorists are out of luck, will Loop Quantum Gravity come to rescue?

September 2015

  1. No, Loop Quantum Gravity has not been shown to violate the Holographic Principle
  2. The power of words – and its limit
  3. Can dark matter cause cancer?
  4. 10 Things you should know about Dark Matter
  5. How to publish your first scientific paper
  6. Macro Dark Matter
  7. More about Hawking and Perry’s new proposal to solve the black hole information loss problem
  8. Loops and Strings and Stuff

August 2015

  1. Embrace your 5th dimension.
  2. Hawking proposes new idea for how information might escape from black holes
  3. Me, Elsewhere
  4. The origin of mass. Or, the pion’s PR problem.
  5. Tuesday distraction: New music video
  6. Superfluid Dark Matter
  7. Dear Dr. Bee: Why do some people assume that the Planck length/time are the minimum possible length and time?
  8. To the women pregnant with my children: Here is what to expect [Totally TMI – Proceed on your own risk]
  9. No, you cannot test quantum gravity by entangling mirrors
  10. Dear Dr. B: Can you make up anything in theoretical physics?

July 2015

  1. Is the Fermi gamma-ray excess evidence for dark matter or due to milli-second pulsars?
  2. The number-crunchers. How we learned to stop worrying and love to code.
  3. Book review: “Eureka” by Chad Orzel.
  4. The loneliness of my notepad
  5. Analog Duality

June 2015

  1. I wasn’t born a scientist. And you weren’t either.
  2. Does faster-than-light travel lead to a grandfather paradox?
  3. No, Gravity hasn’t killed Schrödinger’s cat
  4. The plight of the postdocs: Academia and mental health
  5. Where are we on the road to quantum gravity?
  6. What is cosmological hysteresis?
  7. Social Media for Scientists

May 2015

  1. String theory advances philosophy. No, really.
  2. How to make a white dwarf go supernova
  3. Book Review: “String Theory and the Scientific Method” by Richard Dawid
  4. Information transfer without energy exchange
  5. Testing modified gravity with black hole shadows

April 2015

  1. What should everybody know about the foundations of physics?
  2. The problem with Poincaré-invariant networks
  3. Why the LHC will (probably) not destroy the universe
  4. Away Note
  5. A wonderful 100th anniversary gift for Einstein
  6. Publons
  7. Photonic Booms: How images can move faster than light, and what they can tell us.
  8. No, the black hole information loss problem has not been solved. Even if PRL thinks so.

March 2015

  1. New type of gravitational wave detector proposed
  2. No, the LHC will not make contact with parallel universes
  3. No, you cannot test quantum gravity with X-ray superradiance
  4. No foam: New constraint on space-time fluctuations rules out stochastic Planck scale dispersion
  5. What physics says about the vacuum: A visit to the seashore.
  6. Can we prove the quantization of gravity with the Casimir effect? Probably not.

February 2015

  1. Are pop star scientists bad for science?
  2. New experiment doesn’t see fifth force, rules out class of dark energy models
  3. Open peer review and its discontents.
  4. Do black hole firewalls have observable consequences?
  5. Black holes don’t exist again. Newsflash: It’s a trap!

January 2015

  1. No, the “long sought-after link between the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity” has not been found
  2. Book review: "Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe" by John Moffat
  3. Is philosophy bad science?
  4. Does the Scientific Method need Revision?
  5. I'm a little funny
  6. How to write your first scientific paper
  7. Do we live in a computer simulation?
  8. Your g is my e – Has time come for a physics notation standard?

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