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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

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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?

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A view of lightning storms from space
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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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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

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Two houses next to each other The house on the right has multiple separate rooms with individual musicians, while the house on the left has a combined symphony in one large room
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Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

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