Clever New Experiment Looks for Quantum Jumps of Big Things

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Friday, January 26, 2024 Clever New Experiment Looks for Quantum Jumps of Big Things I got a lot of questions about an article which said that physicists have designed “a Way to Detect Quantum Behaviour in Large Objects, Like Us” … | Continue reading


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Clever New Experiment Looks for Quantum Jumps of Big Things

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How do we know that climate change is caused by humans?

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How do we know that climate change is caused by humans?

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Thursday, January 25, 2024 How do we know that climate change is caused by humans? n this video I summarize the main pieces of evidence that we have which show that climate change is caused by humans. This is most important that … | Continue reading


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Fearless Icelanders to Drill Into Magma Chamber

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Fearless Icelanders to Drill Into Magma Chamber

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Fearless Icelanders to Drill Into Magma Chamber I don’t like places where hot stuff bubbles out of the ground, but Icelanders have no such issues. They’re now almost ready to start a new experiment tha … | Continue reading


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Extreme Weather Becomes Worse Faster Than Predicted

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Extreme Weather Becomes Worse Faster Than Predicted

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Extreme Weather Becomes Worse Faster Than Predicted Floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, storm surges. Extreme weather events receive a lot of media coverage. In recent years, these events have freq … | Continue reading


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Another Famous Quantum Mystery Was Just Debunked (it wasn't me)

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Another Famous Quantum Mystery Was Just Debunked (it wasn't me)

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Monday, January 22, 2024 Another Famous Quantum Mystery Was Just Debunked (it wasn't me) The quantum Cheshire Cat is a famous experiment that’s attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. In this experiment, a particle is su … | Continue reading


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Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube

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Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 21, 2024 Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube The Center for Countering Digital Hate put out a new report a few days ago, in which they warn that climate misinformation continuous to flourish … | Continue reading


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You Probably Don't Know Why You Really Have Mass

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You Probably Don't Know Why You Really Have Mass

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Saturday, January 20, 2024 You Probably Don't Know Why You Really Have Mass (unless you've been reading this blog for a very, very long time) This video comes with a quiz which you can take here. Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder at … | Continue reading


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Astrophysicists Find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist

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Astrophysicists Find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Friday, January 19, 2024 Astrophysicists Find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist A group of astrophysicists have found another megastructure in the universe. They’ve called it the “Big Ring” and it’s a whopping 1 point 3 … | Continue reading


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Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn From My Mistakes

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Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn From My Mistakes

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Thursday, January 18, 2024 Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn From My Mistakes I was told that I have irritable bowel syndrome. I then learned by shear coincidence that most of my symptoms were instead caused by food additive … | Continue reading


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New Cancer Therapy with Particle Beam Flashes goes to Trial

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New Cancer Therapy with Particle Beam Flashes goes to Trial

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Wednesday, January 17, 2024 New Cancer Therapy with Particle Beam Flashes goes to Trial Flash proton therapy is a new cancer treatment that’s just out of the laboratory and now being tested on patients in the first trials. In thi … | Continue reading


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This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market

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This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Tuesday, January 16, 2024 This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market A Chinese company has announced they’re planning to mass-produce tiny nuclear batteries that can last up to 50 years, possibly beating both a British … | Continue reading


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Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew!

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Monday, January 15, 2024 Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew! The Dark Energy Survey has surveyed dark energy and found that our universe is unlikely to rip into pieces. I think that’s good news for the cosmos. Let’s h … | Continue reading


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Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew!

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Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe?

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 14, 2024 Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe? Quantum fluctuations happen everywhere, all the time, and in principle they can become arbitrarily large. So if we wait long enough at the end of the univer … | Continue reading


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Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe?

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New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Saturday, January 13, 2024 New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many op … | Continue reading


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New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared

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A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Friday, January 12, 2024 A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth When I was just about to log off for the holiday break, I saw these headlines popping up, saying that it doesn’t take much to turn Earth into Venus wi … | Continue reading


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A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth

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It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing

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It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Thursday, January 11, 2024 It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing Yann LeCun, the AI chief of Meta, has a surprisingly sane attitude to quantum computing. This deserves celebration and also investigation because he’s making … | Continue reading


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Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field

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Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field

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Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field We’ve heard that space debris is bad and the problem’s getting worse, but here’s a new thing to worry about. It could interfere w … | Continue reading


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This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing

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This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Tuesday, January 09, 2024 This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing Researchers at the Georgia Institute for Technology have found a new semiconductor that’s a really good candidate for making computers faster and smal … | Continue reading


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Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says

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Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Monday, January 08, 2024 Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says What is better, planting trees or covering the same area of land with solar panels? A group of geoscientists from Israel just looked at this, and the … | Continue reading


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Will the world end? A physicist's reply

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Will the world end? A physicist's reply

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 07, 2024 Will the world end? A physicist's reply How do we know that the laws of nature will continue to do what they have been doing so far? We don't. It's called the "Problem of Induction" and means that ultimat … | Continue reading


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They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared.

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They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared.

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 07, 2024 They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared. Imagine you make a prediction for a discovery that wins the Nobel Prize. Your prediction turns out to be correct, and no one cares. This i … | Continue reading


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The true cost of nuclear power

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The true cost of nuclear power

Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Saturday, December 30, 2023 The true cost of nuclear power Out of the many bad arguments against nuclear power, there are two good arguments: It's too expensive and the power plants take too long to build. But are they true? And … | Continue reading


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Nuclear Power Comeback Update: Poland Authorizes Small Modular Reactors

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You are now accelerating: What it means that gravity is not a force

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Life could have begun in an interstellar gas cloud

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