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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.

All Episodes about physics

The Ends of the Earth

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Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface

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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’

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‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party

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Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

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How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics

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Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

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Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case.

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Introducing The Quanta Podcast

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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

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Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

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It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

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Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

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Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

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What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

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