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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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20:57

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/05/29

For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix.

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17:25

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

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/05/15

Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Running Out” by Patrick Patrikios.

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9:59

During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/05/01

Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod.

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21:16

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/04/17

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.

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22:15

Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/04/03

The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Fire Water” by Saidbysed.

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20:39

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/03/20

A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain.

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20:48

Tiny Language Models Come of Age

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/03/06

To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix.

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21:48

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/02/21

Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.

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23:58

What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/02/07

Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer.

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16:37

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/01/24

The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod.

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15:21

Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

The Quanta Podcast ·

2024/01/10

By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Hidden Agenda” by Kevin MacLeod.

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13:09

Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/12/20

Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover” by Vibe Mountain.

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12:47

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/12/06

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields in our own solar system. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.

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15:56

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/11/21

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the paths they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Confusing Disco” by Birocratic.

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13:37

Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/11/08

In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer.

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12:09

How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/10/25

To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Good Times” by Patrick Patrikios.

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25:05

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/10/11

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.

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18:27

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/09/27

New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.” Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Who’s Using Who” by The Mini Vandals.

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16:59

Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/09/13

Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Hidden Agenda” by Kevin MacLeod.

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21:07

Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared...

The Quanta Podcast ·

2023/08/30

The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking about the risks of developing some diseases that aren’t usually considered contagious. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Transmission” by John Deley and the 41 Players.

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