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Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.
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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

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Simulated water particles swirl in an upward vortex.
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Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

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Illustration of a figure standing between broken orange walls and a blue unbreakable wall with a broken sledgehammer beside it
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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography

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A video that shows washes of light moving across a model of a human brain.
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Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement

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Image of Trichoplax adhaerens moving against a black background.
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This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

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A grid of 66 galaxies.
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory

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Photo of an array of metal tubes and glass pieces, with an orange laser cutting horizontally across
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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

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An artist’s 3D illustration of chromosomes splitting and fusing together.
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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’

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Solving the Faint-Sun Paradox

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Illustration of COVID-19 virus particles rolling across a 3D landscape.
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Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus

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Photo of a flying fish gliding over the open water.
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Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution

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An illustration of a flashlight whose beam illuminates graphs and numbers.
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

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An illustration of a mathematician on a ladder stringing red and blue beads against a tiled red backdrop dotted with blue circles.
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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

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