Life on Mars Might Have Caused Its Own Extinction. COVID Made In Boston. And more.

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All the science News you need for the week of October 26. A new study shows that early microbial life on Mars might have caused its own extinction. Astrophysicists check whether aliens would be able to figure out that our planet is inhabited. The World's Biggest Camera, to be used at the Vera Rubin Observatory, is almost finished. New analysis of supernovae data confirms Hubble tension.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Life on Mars
02:39 Life on Earth
04:27 The World's Biggest Camera
05:41 New Analysis Confirms Hubble Tension
07:34 Another Mass-Stranding of Whales
08:13 Plague Survivor's Genes Contribute to Auto-Immune Disorders
09:14 Boston Researchers Create New COVID Strain
11:10 Lack of Sleep Correlated With Chronic Illness
12:11 Smiling Actually Makes Happy
13:31 Break Old Habits with Fabulous
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[@Aizistral]

I love these science news videos honestly. No rubbish and great entertainment value. Keep up the good work.

[@SabineHossenfelder]

Happy you find them useful!

[@Manorainjan]

@@SabineHossenfelder Ich fand diverse Videos von Dir "nützlich", sowohl die Science News als auch die regulären. So fand ich dadurch raus, dass der Kanal REDACTED nicht genug über die toten Mäuse recherchiert hat und der Kanal von EIKE nicht genug zum Thema Fusion (Klimaschau 129). Tja, nicht vertrauenswürdig, muss man alles gegenprüfen... Dabei bist Du eine echte Hilfe 🙂

[@Webfra14]

@@Manorainjan Stimmt, muss man alles gegenprüfen... Denn niemand ist unfehlbar. Auch Sabine nicht...

[@Manorainjan]

@@Webfra14 Ein einfacher Daumen hoch auf meinen Kommentar hätte genügt.

[@rickh3714]

They will be holding a Boston Covid Party soon... Everyone Invited ? I'll be wearing my N99.9999999....😷❌ 🚀👨‍🚀✅ Social distance 1 light yr? I wonder if the Halloween Card stave code predicts that one as well? *I understand they were SCID-hu mice. Which might be more worrying. However if this is not true I am only slightly less concerned.

[@1998wiwi]

I must say I have no idea how I have not found this channel sooner. A well-ran science news channel ran by a scientist, it's wonderful! Hearing someone specify a cited paper is a preprint is so nice.

[@samuelowens000]

She only started this format recently. Her other videos are great too!

[@olaf_jonanas]

To be fair the first news episode was posted only 3 weeks ago so you didn't have much time to find it

[@alfrednewman2234]

checkout her back reaction channel/website

[@sirencall1736]

same!!

[@hopeforescape884]

Agree

[@robadkerson]

This is like watching The Daily show but for legit science. Love it

[@NateJGardner]

Thank you for being a science communicator without all the sensational pop science stuff. You've ended a decades-long drought of good general science communication that's also accessible to anyone.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

Yet the very first story was sensational pop science.

[@josephgranger5261]

I to would like to prove that their is intelligent life on Earth.

[@AlanTheBeast100]

Fermi SixtySymbols Numberphile 3Blue1Brown .... many more...

[@ericfleet9602]

It should be noted that this almost happened on Earth as well, when the first life forms evolved photosynthesis. Over millions of years, the atmosphere was polluted with oxygen killing off almost all life. This happened several times until life evolved the ability to survive in an oxygen-rich environment.

[@Rubs0122]

I love Sabine's sense of humour

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🇺🇲 TOO MANY "WHITE BOYS" IN GOVERNMENT. VOTE them out if u want rights lady & tell ur friends. #Democracy

[@Rubs0122]

@@CHIEF_420 having it hard already here in Brazil, wish u all the best

[@n1njaweedman]

"mum jokes" lol

[@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q]

she throws some sick burns

[@RoastCDuck]

I've been watching 2-4 videos. Pure roast from flesh to carbon. Direct hit. Good paste.

[@fotografm]

I love these news videos. They are the highlight of my week. Please keep up the great work Sabine!!!

[@jamesrussell7760]

Bravo, Sabine. I can't think of a better general science communicator since Carl Sagan than yourself. Lord knows we need more of you.

[@richardgreen7225]

"... hope that astrophysicists will soon find intelligent life on earth because we could really need some. "

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks for the news, Sabine! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@carltondoorman9145]

I don't always have the technical background to fully appreciate some of your more esoteric subjects, but your videos are still just really enjoyable to *try* to follow. Love your channel!

[@vasilyp]

These videos keep getting better and better!! You are a genius Sabine. "I hope astrophysics soon find intelligent life on Earth, because we could really need some!!" BEST PUN EVER 🤣🤣

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

I think that was supposed to be "we could really *use* some". Yes, we could. But could it use us?

[@vasilyp]

@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Yes it was a typo I made while trying not to choke from all the laughing.. 😁 I meant to type "we could really use some".

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@vasilyp Actually, it's not your typo -- it was in the actual video.

[@beeble2003]

That's not a pun. A pun is a joke that relies on different meanings of a single word or words that sound the same.

[@Thomas-gk42]

I agree. Might be the reason, the aliens turned away, they didn't find anything intelligent. Fermi's paradox solved by Sabine?

[@gefginn3699]

Great post Sabine. I wish to cast my opinion on the joy and benefit of your format and presentation. Thank you for everything you do. 💛

[@katiesethna]

I am grateful for a second science channel from you Sabine ma'am!

[@effyleven]

".... probably easier to buy a new one." THAT made me laugh, Sabine. Thank you ma'am.

[@ZeroRiskAppetite]

I've been subscribed for a few years now and these science videos are a great idea. You're one of the few people I trust to interpret science news.

[@EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo]

Sabine, this big effort you are making with this News segments are worth every second you spend on making them. Thanks a lot for providing reason to science.

[@constpegasus]

Thank you for this Sabine keeping us up to date.

[@TCDooM]

Great new format! Love the news updates

[@djschultz1970]

Thank you Sabine! I just realized I was not subscribed. I am now! You bring a unique perspective to the cutting edge of science today. I have watched almost all of your videos now. And I must thank you! I look forward to your future works.

[@justinahole336]

I'm really digging this new format (but don't stop doing the other format too!). It reminds me of the short pieces that print media often had at (usually) the beginning of the issue. I miss reading those, but this is a really cool alternative!

[@dharryg]

Thanks, Sabine! Your broadcast is both more useful and more interesting than anything on the US news networks.

[@Bassotronics]

Yes. I have no need to know if Kim Kardashian has a new tattoo on her butt. Mainstream media is full of things I don’t give a damn about or does nothing to better the intelligence of humans.

[@poksnee]

faint praise...that. LOL

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@@poksnee Better than US networks, also better than North Korean TV

[@Benjamin_Gilbert-Lif]

Love this series its been need for some time

[@rachelmolina3995]

Thanks again for another great video! I love all things science.

[@gabor6259]

This format is great! Danke.

[@audiodead7302]

Great video. Keep it going. Really good format.

[@danielchan1668]

The new format is nice, kinda miss the citations in the description though. We should always have the right to double-check the facts presented here, and your inclusion of them is why I like them.

[@annnee6818]

I love these videos, they're interesting condensed and no nonsense. Edit: "It's powerful enough to see a golf ball from 15 miles away, but it's probably easier to buy a new one." Lol, I love me a deadpan pragmatist. 😆

[@scot2814]

Seriously amazing work you're doing. Keep it up!

[@LizardVideoDude]

Now we can point to microbes on Mars and say "See, humans aren't the only ones working towards their own extinction!"

[@wallacethomas9844]

We do not need to worry about that Boston COVID strain unless it escapes the lab….

[@greg4367]

Love Alby, love the phone, and keep doing the great job you do. Thank you, and greetings from San Francisco.

[@EddieA907]

Patiently waiting for this! I LOVE it!

[@pyawallah7080]

always have a smile on my dial when I watch one of your videos , love your sense of humour

[@AllenProxmire]

Sabine figured out Anton's video model: reading science news

[@richardhsiung7007]

Hi Sabine, Your insight is extremely valuable, but your humor, priceless! My daughter and I really enjoy your programs.

[@tiberiusbrain]

Ok this series is growing on me. You have me in stitches. Yes it is probably easier to just get a new golfball

[@7hkey]

fantastic science news presentation, and I discovered there are multiple subtitles - thank you!

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[@johnbarry8989]

Another awesome video - thank you so much, Sabine !!!

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[@ptredhead]

Thanks Sabine. Great show!

[@extropy1]

I installed Fabulous several months ago, i ended up throwing my phone in the bin. I've never been happier...

[@urmwhynot]

I never get ads visiting Sabine's channel so I'm guessing she doesn't monetise for ads so I joined the membership option. Thank you, Sabine for your content. Love from Australia

[@ocatled3000]

Excellent Series! Ty

[@brendakrieger7000]

I truly enjoy these news stories😍

[@dztennessee9744]

Thank you for the efforts I love these videos

[@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

Thanks for the video :)

[@EyMannMachHin]

I really love these science news. A wide variety of topics presented with a balanced yet funny undertone. Although the stranding whales really left an eerie feeling of scenes from the game "Death Stranding". But overall it really left me smiling.

[@majorshocker2097]

I just subbed your channel, because youtube keeps recommending your videos, and you are addressing topics I care about, competently. I don't care if youtube wants me to watch you, instead of whatever... I appreciate what you do. Thanks.

[@frankman2]

Nice format. Keep it up.

[@pahema472]

Awesome vid. I love your sense of humour, perfect punch line delivery. Cheers from the land Downundah. :-)

[@theophrastus3.056]

I’m looking forward to the movie: “Mars Attacks… Itself!” Just kidding. Sabine is always informative & interesting.

[@michaelblacktree]

This is better than the regular news, by far.

[@francissaffell6853]

Would there not be a very thick stratum still left over from this explosion of microbial life on Mars? Love your stuff Sabine! :) And keep making the Music Videos..... They make me smile!

[@JNCressey]

I hear that we think the magnetic field of the planet stopped so the solar wind wasn't prevented from removing the atmosphere.

[@francissaffell6853]

@@JNCressey Yes, stop the dynamo, and you stop the planet from being habitable. That's just how it is. We are better off not even thinking that planets will ever have people "colonizing them." NASA GAVE UP on the idea. It is a better idea if we think of something more protected. Yet, we still have this fantasy of on the Moon Bases. The Chinese will make one, and everyone there will die a shorter life from being irradiated with cosmic bits that do have energy, and no one has a way to shield it. All of those people will die, just for a political reason.

[@SF-tb4kb]

"avoiding procrastination." Can't I just put off procrastinating? Wait let me think about that and get back to you.

[@Bult]

Lovely episode. I love the lovely, loving love letters your lovely subscribers lovingly leave for you.

[@BenjaminGoose]

I almost didn't watch this since there was a red line through the bottom of the thumbnail, as though I'd already watched it! Good job youpoop.

[@demetre6756]

Just finished Existential Physics. Awesome book! Now I know what I don't know 🤣🤣

[@SabineHossenfelder]

Happy you like it! 😊

[@AdrianBoyko]

You have become Donald Rumsfeld

[@seriousmaran9414]

I tried smiling, I live in Britain, still chronically depressed. So I watched a Sabine Hossenfelder KZbin, perked me up quite a bit...

[@SabineHossenfelder]

Sorry to hear, best wishes to you in Britain.

[@janami-dharmam]

I understand it is really tough to smile in UK but you can either watch BBC or Sabine!

[@seriousmaran9414]

@@janami-dharmam I have fibromyalgia, chronic depression, and you want to make it worse??? 😜

[@kcstafford2784]

Love it..good job

[@clsatc]

Love the little inserted jokes - thanks for the giggles.

[@pdahandyman]

More Sabine? Yes, please!!

[@linuxgeex]

More like this Sabine!

[@macratak]

i love this series

[@diyeana]

This video makes me smile and happy.

[@Quroxify]

I love many things here. One is the way you grind it in when you say "You know, the model with dark matter..." And number two, when you allude to a lifting of the veil that has held back critical thinking before the current Renaissance in science. Thank you so much. Giggles

[@clausderenda5777]

Great clips. Love the Science News. Keep it going!

[@joz6683]

Great jokes and unsensational reporting of science news that covers a wide range of topics. These videos are rapidly becoming one of the highlights of the week. All the best from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

[@bobweiram6321]

German humor is no laughing matter.

[@poksnee]

Loved your comment about finding intelligent life on earth...my thought exactly.

[@poksnee]

@Retired Bore LOL

[@robo5013]

so long and thanks for all the fish

[@daveconvoy5793]

Danke Sabina

[@mrdsn189]

Thank you!

[@timothyvincent7371]

I've just discovered SH a couple of days ago and appreciate her very much. This news and humor format is very entertaining but I find her in depth talks excellent information sources. I never heard of a physicist who doesn't speak mostly in equations.

[@keithmcgarrigle8921]

Making people happy you bump into is easy. If you are out going introduce your self to them by telling them your name. Most times they will answer with there name. Say nice to meet you normally the conversation will, or not happen but you tried. My experience it works and every one is happier.

[@rickelpers1820]

I like how she draws it altogether with humor. Her entire presentation is calming yet interesting.

[@carlbrenninkmeijer8925]

you made my day !

[@dailynotes2845]

As arrogant as I am; I will always love and respect this channel. I've been able to formulate more ideas from this channel than most others.

[@toddbilleci8563]

Made my day 👍

[@Danchell]

Can you describe the different Plancks such as time, mass, length… and their common thread?

[@jupiter2035]

I'm supposed to be in lab rightnow, but iam here enjoying this very informative information. Love it!

[@CSkwirl]

Wow that's Fabulous....can we do next weeks video on personal data collection and information security? Yes i know.

[@shadowdragon3521]

I have a feeling that the standard model of cosmology is going to be replaced soon enough, considering the Hubble Tension and the upcoming LSST mission.

[@georgH]

4:30 Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). That caught me by surprise, I still remembered the telescope by its previous initials, the "Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)"

[@sloughagusmezera2053]

Like this. Hope. Can keep. Up. The. Content. Good. Work.

[@while.coyote]

This place just keeps getting better.

[@christopherbrand5360]

Yay Sabinews!

[@sulijoo]

Regarding the creation of new covid virus, the mice had been given specific human cell receptors, that's why they died. So yes, I think we should be worried. Dr John Campbell who's been a doctor for 30 years has a channel, and he was worried about it too. He saw no legitimate reason for them to be doing this.

[@stylis666]

Habits is basically how your brain works. The more you do something, the more ingrained the neural pathway is, the easier it is to do it. This can lead to all kinds of things, automatic responses, intuition, personality, increase and decrease of anxiety in trained or untrained neural paths (disclaimer: don't try and train something you wouldn't want to do for the rest of your life. Like a diet or any other habit, it has to fit with you or it will just make your life harder. Your resentment or worry or stress is trained along with it. Your habit/happiness has to balance those things out or you'll be in trouble.) The easiest way to be who you want to be then logically is to have a picture of the direction you want to train your habits in. I chose to encourage my empathic nature because it's already there and it benefits cooperation, which benefits all of us and will work for everyone, even if I'm long dead. It's a auto-amplifying goal because my empathic nature and desire to encourage it necessitates a longing for sustainable methods that wouldn't just work for me but for everyone, regardless of time or culture, because my empathy requires me to be a good example that gets lots of positive feedback, because as empathic creatures we are tempted to mimic behaviour we enjoy in others. It even works for other social animals even though many of those are like republicans and theists and don't really know what their (good) nature is. They're effectively wrong on what makes social animals so successful - hint: you didn't invent the computer you're on and if you ever need heart surgery, you will most likely rely on the research and expertise of thousands of researchers in various areas to increase the chances of success via the efforts of the surgeon to acquire much of that knowledge to be able to successfully not kill you on the spot by accident or ignorance but help you instead. An app can help you with learning new habits, but I urge you to have multiple beneficial and sustainable reasons for changing those specific habits. If you want to eat more healthy or exercise more, why do you want that? Because it's healthy? To look good because you like the attention? Do you really care on a Friday at home in front of the TV after a long week of hard work? Or maybe because it makes you happy to feel good and to make it a habit that is a good example to loved ones as well? The more reasons you have and the more sustainable those are, the easier it is to acquire new habits and they will likely emphasize your reasons and help you emphasize the characteristics in your personality that you (and others) enjoy. So don't expect an app to help you change bad habits or give you new ones. The app helps to make it easier to form new habits and can inspire you to find and train habits that fit your personality. Taking some of the weight off of your brains to be aware while training habits and saving time in figuring out which habits are options to consider. It's great and I do recommend it, but never in place of figuring out who you are and want to be, but as a support in that search and growth. You can try out all kinds of habits and see if they fit and ditch what doesn't work for you, learn from it about yourself, be inspired to think about why it works or doesn't. But for the best results, always put your character development first; there's a neat balance between how much your habits shape your character and how your character shapes what habits fit you. Enjoy it.

[@jimiwills]

My favourite science communicator... the golf ball joke tipped the balance.

[@rikimitchell916]

Thank you Sabine, can't hear this enough ...correlation is not causation...nice

[@vturiserra]

Gràcies!

[@117Industries]

This was funny Sabine 😊

[@samuelhindman3022]

Surprisingly, the world's largest digital camera looks just like a really, really big camera.

[@mrsullied]

The golf ball joke floored me!

[@jonwesick2844]

Nice that they're naming an observatory after Vera Rubin.

[@bobhoven3959]

Verry nice done 👍💐👋

[@hank1519]

Sabine, your comic persona is wonderful!

[@user-aRb00d3r]

Sabine is the best comic news host we didn't know we needed! p.s. i'm a mouse.

[@ideegeniali]

The grammelot on the phone with just sabine talking and the other party saying unintelligible garbage, brought me child memories of peanuts cartoons where adults don't talk, but a sax plays instead. I enjoy this comical effect so much! Thank you Sabine! Your show is great, well researched, well tought, and well executed as much as the best shows I've ever seen! If not more!

[@bobweiram6321]

It doesn't get anymore German than the kraftwerk inspired intro music. Love it!❤❤

[@ILsupereroe67]

"In this table you see the problem" - right, I immediately spotted it by looking at that table 🤣

[@angelatakano6072]

Love your presentations! They are fun and deep at the same without the goobeeleegook