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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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Art for "Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager"

Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager

Illustration of 826-vertex graph for "Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician"

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

Animated illustration of a black hole in a cube of jelly

To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole

Thumbnail illustration for scale=free networks

Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks

Simulation of Kelvin-Helmholz Instability

Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations

Minhyong Kim in front of a whiteboard

Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics

A blue person made of code walks down a pink road patterned with hexagons

Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

Svitlana Mayboroda

Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs

Nash equilibrium maze

In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

15 pentagon tessellations

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

Combinatorics and constellations

A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

Illustration of a salamander

How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering

Thomas Royen by Rüdiger Nehmzow

A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost

New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes

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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems