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

A grid of 66 galaxies.

Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

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

Photo of an array of metal tubes and glass pieces, with an orange laser cutting horizontally across

Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life

A 3D model showing red plumes in the mantle.

A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface

One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

Illustration of various kinds of clocks floating against a pink background.

The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

Animation of a gemstone flipping up and down between mirror-image states.

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

Graphic of swirling vortex-like patterns called skyrmions.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

Blue faults of Cerberus Fossae

Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows

A computer simulation of two galaxies colliding.

The New History of the Milky Way

Graphical model of a cubic earth.

Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology

Illustration of a black hole

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

Particle going through a barrier

Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light