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Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

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During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus

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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

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What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells

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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

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Illustration of a bacterial cell in mid-fission. Its threads of DNA and other internal molecules are divided between the cells. A constriction on the midline marks where the daughter cells are splitting.

Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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The curling bodies of two differently colored roundworms overlap with a virus-shaped element in the background.

Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

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Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light

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Illustration of a brain surrounded by castle walls that keep out blood vessels.

How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats

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A person stares at a thought bubble.

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

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Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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