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The Quanta Podcast

Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

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How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory

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The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’

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Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems

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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

The Ends of the Earth

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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History

With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

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AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold