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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

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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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

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A disk features swirling red and orange lines in the central region and blue and pink lines nearer the edge. The disk appears to bend the space-time fabric around it.

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

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