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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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An illustration of a flashlight shining on a chalkboard covered in sketches and equations, including an illustration of a particle with a question mark next to it.

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Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

Two dark hands touching surrounded by a universe

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A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

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Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?

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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

A view of lightning storms from space

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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

An illustration of identical black holes moving along a conveyer belt in a factory.

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Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

A photograph of ice cubes molded into different shapes—including a sphere, a snowflake, a diamond, and a dinosaur—scattered across a blue surface.

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Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet

A collage with Gilles Brassard (left) and Charles Bennett.

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Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award

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Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?

A fish with numbers on the side floating in a fishtank in the ocean. Other fish swim by.

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New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

Illustration of a man holding a laptop while standing in the middle of a complicated optics experiment. Green laser beams fly around every which way.

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AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

An illustration showing a variety of humanoid robots, including Atlas, Digit, a science fiction robot, and a toy, along with floating stairs.

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Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?

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How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

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Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations