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Quanta Science Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p

Episodes

Total: 252

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.

New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic pos

A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmo

Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one know

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energ

Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematica

A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clust

Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What wil

Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversit

Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest oth

For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experimen

Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which

Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them t

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes

The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the su

A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between

To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler vers

Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new