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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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An artist’s conception of the ways that functional capacities have been mapped to regions of the brain.

The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

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

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

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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

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Electron microscopy of T4 bacteriophages.

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.

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

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Artistic representation of water radiolysis supporting life below ground.

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

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Photo of Rafflesia arnoldii growing on vines in Indonesian forest.

DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists

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A mosaic of five microscope images of igneous rocks. The rocks are dappled with blue, pink, orange and multicolor inclusions.

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

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Graphic of swirling vortex-like patterns called skyrmions.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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An illustration of a doughnut-shaped elliptic curve intertwined with the Julia set.

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets

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Animation of a neuron that periodically alters its responses to stimuli when it is reset into a new state by another input.

Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

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An illustration of a human brain against “pink noise” static.

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries

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Blue faults of Cerberus Fossae

Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows

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Illustration of mathematicians descending through a cavern whose walls are lined with polynomials.

Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem

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Video artwork showing yellow blobs move, merge, split, shrink and enlarge inside a clear cube.

A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life

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