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The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself, and much more, The Quanta Podcast is a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. In each episode, Quanta Magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Quanta specifically covers fundamental research — driven by

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26:12

New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math...

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2025/06/24

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales.This is the sixth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.Audio coda provided by Mount Washington Observatory

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19:34

Audio Edition: Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract...

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2025/06/19

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives.

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19:31

‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic...

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2025/06/17

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats.This is the fifth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.

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23:38

Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

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2025/06/10

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.This is the fourth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.

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08:41

Audio Edition: Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in...

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2025/06/05

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

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19:17

In Computers, Memory Is More Useful Than Time

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2025/06/03

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.This is the third episode of our new weekly series The Quanta Podcast, hosted by Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel. This week's guest is Ben Brubaker; he recently published "For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time.”(If you've been a fan of Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue as 'audio edition episodes' in this same feed every

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20:46

Math and Beauty in the Age of AI

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/05/27

Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math.This is the second episode of our new weekly series The Quanta Podcast, hosted by Quanta magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel. This week's guest is Jordana Cepelewicz; she recently published "Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI" for Quanta's AI special package.(If you've been a fan of Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue as 'audio edition episodes' in this same feed every other

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18:44

Audio Edition: Can AI Models Show Us How People...

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2025/05/22

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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18:49

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/05/20

The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.This is the first episode of our new weekly series The Quanta Podcast, hosted by Quanta magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel. This week's guest is Yasemin Saplakoglu; she recently published "AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK" for Quanta's AI special package.(If you've been a fan of Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue as 'audio edition episodes' in this same feed every other

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12:24

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/05/13

The Quanta Podcast is your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and mathematics. In each episode, editor in chief Samir Patel will talk to the writers and editors behind our most popular, interesting and thought-provoking stories. The first episode of The Quanta Podcast will be live on May 20. In this trailer episode, Patel talks to executive editor Michael Moyer about what Quanta covers, how it has changed over time and our recent special series on “Science, Promise and Peril in

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19:09

Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

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2025/05/08

In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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15:58

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/04/24

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

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17:22

Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

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2025/04/10

Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.

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20:28

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

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2025/03/27

A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove.

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17:19

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of...

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2025/03/05

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

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24:08

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

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2025/02/19

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.

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20:07

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/02/05

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music by Enchanted Forest Dub by South London HiFi.

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13:16

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2025/01/22

While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on the “spooky” phenomenon.

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Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the...

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2025/01/15

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

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20:33

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images

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2024/12/11

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.

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