260 Episodes

  1. New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

    Published: 3/1/2018
  2. Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

    Published: 2/16/2018
  3. Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs

    Published: 2/1/2018
  4. Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution

    Published: 1/18/2018
  5. What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

    Published: 11/17/2017
  6. In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

    Published: 10/12/2017
  7. Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

    Published: 9/21/2017
  8. Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?

    Published: 8/31/2017
  9. Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid

    Published: 8/25/2017
  10. A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

    Published: 7/20/2017
  11. The Thoughts of a Spiderweb

    Published: 7/13/2017
  12. How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering

    Published: 6/29/2017
  13. A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost

    Published: 6/1/2017
  14. A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold

    Published: 5/18/2017
  15. Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View

    Published: 4/6/2017
  16. New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes

    Published: 3/30/2017
  17. Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain

    Published: 3/16/2017
  18. Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness

    Published: 3/9/2017
  19. To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

    Published: 3/2/2017
  20. Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin

    Published: 2/23/2017

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