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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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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

A shining lightbulb with a cord that’s not plugged in.

Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

A graphical illustration showing a number of well-known stars in the present-day universe, along with the edge of a far bigger star.

Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’

A video in which a metallic cube floats above a dark disk as liquid nitrogen evaporates around them

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

Video in which a white circle appears in the center of a blue starry field and grows until whiteness engulfs the whole image.

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws