Quanta Magazine
Episode name: Quanta Magazine
Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
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Season 2015
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Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
How Did Life Begin on Earth?
Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
What Is a Species?
Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life
Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?
Season 2016
Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
David Moore: Tabletop Physics
Janna Levin on Science and Culture
Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
How Does Life Come From Randomness?
Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
Peter and Rosemary Grant
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
Season 2017
Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution
Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time
Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR
Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better
Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark
How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole
Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves
Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
Michael Assis: Atomic Origami
Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics
Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules
Season 2018
Richard Schwartz: In Praise of Simple Problems
Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy
Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning
Daniel Goldman and His Smart Robots
Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes
Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs
Donald Richards: A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe
Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science
Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos
Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience
Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome
Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics
Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
Caucher Birkar: An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
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Rosaly Lopes on Volcanoes Throughout the Solar System
Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets
Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development
Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing
Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite
Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity
Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches
Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity
What Is Emergence?
Season 2019
Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics
What Is Turbulence?
Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System
CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise
Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs
Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments
What Is Universality?
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Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change
Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe
Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells
Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior
Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics
Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet
Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed
Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science
Season 2020
Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math
Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research
Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections
Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs
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James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory
Urban Traffic and Complex Systems
Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space
The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter
Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change
How to Shrink Big Data
The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question
2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
Season 2021
The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women
How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong
This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math
Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond
Iceland Is Mars, on Earth
Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces
The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics
Black Hole Jets: One of the Biggest Mysteries in the Universe
Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
What’s Inside an Exoplanet
The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory
The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model
How to Build Truly Intelligent AI
How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
The Scientific Problem of Consciousness
Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds
When Biology Meets Computer Science
How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
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2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
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Season 2022
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How Geometry Shapes Our Lives
The Biophysics of a Brainless Animal
Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication
The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
Finally, a Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins
How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions
One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty
The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem
How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
