
Quanta Science 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 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.)
Categories: Science & Medicine
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The Quanta Podcast is your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and mathematics. In each episode, editor in chief Samir Patel will talk to the writers and editors behind our most popular, interesting and thought-provoking stories. The first episode of The Quanta Podcast will be live on May 20. In this trailer episode, Patel talks to executive editor Michael Moyer about what Quanta covers, how it has changed over time and our recent special series on “Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI.” Join us every Tuesday for stimulating conversations and insights about the biggest ideas in basic science and mathematics.
Previous episodes
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297 - Introducing The Quanta Podcast Tue, 13 May 2025 - 0h
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296 - Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold Thu, 08 May 2025 - 0h
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295 - Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? Thu, 24 Apr 2025 - 0h
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294 - Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound Thu, 10 Apr 2025 - 0h
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293 - It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All Thu, 27 Mar 2025 - 0h
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292 - How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero Wed, 05 Mar 2025 - 0h
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291 - The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology Wed, 19 Feb 2025 - 0h
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290 - The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea Wed, 05 Feb 2025 - 0h
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289 - Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement Wed, 22 Jan 2025 - 0h
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288 - Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect Wed, 15 Jan 2025 - 0h
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287 - What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images Wed, 11 Dec 2024 - 0h
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286 - What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? Tue, 26 Nov 2024 - 0h
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285 - Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - 0h
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284 - Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 0h
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283 - AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 0h
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282 - Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare Wed, 02 Oct 2024 - 0h
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281 - Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds Wed, 18 Sep 2024 - 0h
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280 - Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Wed, 04 Sep 2024 - 0h
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279 - Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton Wed, 21 Aug 2024 - 0h
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278 - Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information Wed, 07 Aug 2024 - 0h
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277 - Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic Fields Thu, 25 Jul 2024 - 0h
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276 - New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth Wed, 10 Jul 2024 - 0h
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275 - New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 0h
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274 - Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms Tue, 11 Jun 2024 - 0h
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273 - Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons Wed, 29 May 2024 - 0h
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272 - In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge Wed, 15 May 2024 - 0h
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271 - During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus Wed, 01 May 2024 - 0h
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270 - Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 0h
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269 - Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 0h
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268 - Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 0h
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267 - Tiny Language Models Come of Age Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 0h
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266 - Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 0h
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265 - What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 0h
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264 - An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 0h
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263 - Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve Wed, 10 Jan 2024 - 0h
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262 - Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 0h
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261 - Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism Wed, 06 Dec 2023 - 0h
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260 - To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Tue, 21 Nov 2023 - 0h
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259 - Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 0h
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258 - How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats Wed, 25 Oct 2023 - 0h
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257 - JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 0h
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256 - Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 0h
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255 - Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 0h
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254 - Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks Wed, 30 Aug 2023 - 0h
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253 - Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 0h
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252 - How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain Wed, 02 Aug 2023 - 0h
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251 - Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 0h
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250 - Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 0h
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249 - The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think Wed, 21 Jun 2023 - 0h
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248 - Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 0h