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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 curiosity, discovery and the overwhelming desire to know why and how. Join us every Tuesday for a stimulating conversation about the biggest ideas and the tiniest details.

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Four-Color Theorem Is Still a Math Favorite

Audio Edition: ‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

Audio Edition: A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life

Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance

What Makes a Fluid a Fluid?

Audio Edition: New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

Why Am I Left-Handed?

Audio Edition: Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

Is Life Just Different?

Audio Edition: ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

How Many Shuffles Do You Really Need to Randomize Your Deck?

Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?

Audio Edition: Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?

The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math

Ecotypes Make the Idea of a Species Even Fuzzier

What Actually Causes Lightning?

Audio Edition: Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

Ice Is Way More Complex Than It Seems

Audio Edition: How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

Our Immune Systems Are Full of Ancient Weapons

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

Audio Edition: The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

Quantum Mechanics Might Be a Secret Key to Secure Communication

Is String Theory Still Our Best Hope?

Audio Edition: New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

One of Nature’s Most Complex Molecular Machines

The Fundamental Tension at the Heart of Math

Audio Edition: AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?

Uniting a Century of Digital and Analog Astronomy

Audio Edition: Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

Astrocytes Might Be in Charge of the Brain

The Infinite Heist - Part 2

Audio Edition: The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

The Infinite Heist - Part 1

Decoding the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics

Audio Edition: Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time

How Animals Build a Sense of Direction

Mathematicians Want To Make Fluid Equations Glitch Out

Audio Edition: Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles

Do AI Models Agree On How They Encode Reality?

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?