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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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An illustration shows sperm cells circling an egg cell. Each sperm cell is stamped with an icon representing fitness, including a steak, dumbbell and cigarette.

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How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA

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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

AUDIO EDITION

How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?

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Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes

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AUDIO EDITION

The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness

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A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled

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How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory

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Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.

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The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View

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How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again)

A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting

A field of large white galaxies hides three tiny red dots.

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A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe

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A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals

‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle