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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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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

An illustration shows a bright ball of light slowing down brain waves.

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy

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

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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

New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge

During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

Tiny Language Models Come of Age