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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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20:28

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

The Quanta Podcast ·

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...

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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

The Quanta Podcast ·

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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14:00

What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/11/26

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.

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Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/11/13

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.

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19:07

Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/10/30

New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about the importance of rest.

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25:11

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's...

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2024/10/16

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

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18:08

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts...

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2024/10/02

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.

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20:13

Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/09/18

A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.

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12:36

Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock...

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2024/09/04

Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain.

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17:46

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/08/21

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

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17:44

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/08/07

Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.

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11:03

Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/07/25

A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from.

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13:23

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

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/07/10

Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What will happen to our planet when the sun dies? Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Dark Toys” by SYBS.

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21:05

New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/06/26

Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Confusing Disco” by Birocratic.

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25:08

Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/06/11

Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.

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