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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.(If you've been a fan of the Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue here. You'll see those episodes marked as audio edition episodes every two weeks.)
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'Ghostly' Galaxies and the Mystery of Dark Matter
Oct 20, 2026
In 2018, using the Keck Observatory in Hawaiʻi, astronomers discovered the first known dark matter-deficient galaxy, DF2. It’s about the same size as the Milky Way, but way dimmer, with 200 times…
How Math Brings Together Classical Chaos, Quantum Mechanics, and Fractals
Oct 13, 2026
The uncertainty principle tells us that the more you know about where a quantum particle is, the less you can know about how fast it’s moving, and vice versa. In 2023, graduate student Alex Cohen…
Audio Edition: Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else
Oct 08, 2026
Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy.
The article Sometimes Being First…
Sea Monkeys, Jupiter, and the Mystery of Turbulence
Oct 06, 2026
Turbulence is all around us: bumping our planes, roiling our rivers, swirling milk into our coffee. These systems quickly become extremely chaotic and complex. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast…
‘Jumping Genes’ Are More Than Parasitic DNA
Sep 29, 2026
You might imagine that the DNA in your cells has a simple history. But that’s not the entire story. Nearly half of your genome is a wild drama, thanks to a genetic material called transposons that…
Audio Edition: For Hong Wang, Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
Sep 24, 2026
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
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Are the Little Red Dots Actually Black Hole Suns?
Sep 22, 2026
When all you can see is a speck, it’s hard to tell what you’re looking at. Astronomers first argued that little red dots spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022 were distant galaxies on the…
Four-Color Theorem Is Still a Math Favorite
Sep 15, 2026
In 1852, the mathematician Francis Guthrie was coloring in a map of English counties when he noticed that he needed only four colors. Was this always true, he wondered? The question captured the…
Audio Edition: ‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard
Sep 10, 2026
Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.
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Does Computer Science Need Computers?
Sep 08, 2026
In popular culture, computer science is practically synonymous with programming. There are obviously branches of computer science in which computer hardware and software are essential, such as in the…
How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
Sep 01, 2026
If you are well rested and full, your brain tells you that a bruised overripe apple is a piece of subpar fruit to be passed over. However, if you are exhausted and hungry, an overripe apple is…
Audio Edition: A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life
Aug 27, 2026
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
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Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance
Aug 25, 2026
Combinatorial discrepancy theory is a branch of mathematics concerned with balance. If you’re making two teams — sports, trivia, you name it — how can you make sure that they’re perfectly balanced…
What Makes a Fluid a Fluid?
Aug 18, 2026
The Navier-Stokes equations are enormously successful at predicting how fluids flow and swirl. But they fail to account for the microscopic bits that make up matter. But now math based on symmetries…
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Audio Edition: New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
Aug 13, 2026
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics.
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
Aug 11, 2026
Reasoning comes in many technically defined forms, but the basic procedure is easily recognizable: arriving at a sound conclusion by linking together intermediate steps that logically follow from…
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Why Am I Left-Handed?
Aug 04, 2026
Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Geneticists, developmental biologists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists have all sought explanations, resulting in an astronomical amount of…
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Audio Edition: Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback
Jul 30, 2026
Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years?
The article Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
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A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
Jul 28, 2026
Generally, dark energy and dark matter are regarded as separate entities, but recent astronomical observations have spurred scientists to look further into a less widespread idea — that the two are…
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Is Life Just Different?
Jul 21, 2026
There’s no scientific consensus about what makes living things so different from inorganic material. Some scientists cite replication or metabolism. Others have another answer: Living organisms are…
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Audio Edition: ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback
Jul 16, 2026
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?
The article ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback first appeared on Quanta…
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How Many Shuffles Do You Really Need to Randomize Your Deck?
Jul 14, 2026
In 1992, mathematicians Dave Bayer and Persi Diaconis proved that seven riffle shuffles are enough to shuffle a deck of cards — but only if you can cut your deck with precision. Decades later, a new…
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Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
Jul 07, 2026
Volcano forecasting can save countless lives. But most of the time warnings are more like educated guesses. How close are we to forecasting volcano behavior the way we forecast the weather? On this…
Audio Edition: Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life
Jul 02, 2026
Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
Jun 30, 2026
In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist pureed a bunch of planarian worms and fed them to other ones. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’…
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Jun 23, 2026
How many pieces are there in the Standard Model of particle physics? 17, 30, 37, 61, 118? Or is the true answer much larger — and not even an integer? It depends on your taste for complexity — and…
Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?
Jun 18, 2026
Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform…
The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math
Jun 16, 2026
The groundbreaking proof assistant Lean acts as a sort of automatic quality control. It’s gaining ground in the math world — in part because it can interact with AI to open new avenues of inquiry…
Ecotypes Make the Idea of a Species Even Fuzzier
Jun 09, 2026
How do you define a species? The question has been controversial since the days of Darwin. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with writer Marlowe Starling about how recent…
What Actually Causes Lightning?
Jun 02, 2026
Thunderstorms have captivated humanity for millennia, and yet their inner workings remain deeply mysterious. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, guest host and Quanta senior editor Hannah Waters…