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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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For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI

An illustration shows a human brain. Colorful flowers and plants burst from the left side, while wires and computing notes innervate the right side.

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

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

a snowflake surrounded by fire

Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case.

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

Fish swimming with outlined brains and microbes within them

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

An illustration of concentric rings of a radiating wave in space, with chopsticks that appear poised to pluck a particle out of the wave.

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

An illustration shows zero lit by spotlight; it flickers in a cave that looks like a brain.

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

An illustration shows a bee, decorated with positive charges, approaching a field of flowers that wear negative charges. An electric field emerges between them.

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

A translucent comb jelly collected from the deep sea.

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images