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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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A three dimensional shape with a line through the middle

‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

A woman in a striped shirt in front of a park background

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

An array of ellipsoids transforming into spheres.

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

An illustration of a doughnut-shaped elliptic curve intertwined with the Julia set.

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets

Illustration of mathematicians descending through a cavern whose walls are lined with polynomials.

Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem

Graphical model of a cubic earth.

Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology

Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order

Art for "With Ruler and Compass, Amateur Mathematician Tames Fiendish Problem"

Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

15 pentagon tessellations

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost