Quanta Science Podcast

260 Episodes

1. Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

   Published: 6/11/2024
2. Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

   Published: 5/29/2024
3. In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge

   Published: 5/15/2024
4. During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus

   Published: 5/1/2024
5. Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

   Published: 4/17/2024
6. Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

   Published: 4/3/2024
7. Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

   Published: 3/20/2024
8. Tiny Language Models Come of Age

   Published: 3/6/2024
9. Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

   Published: 2/21/2024
10. What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells

    Published: 2/7/2024
11. An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

    Published: 1/24/2024
12. Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

    Published: 1/10/2024
13. Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

    Published: 12/20/2023
14. Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

    Published: 12/6/2023
15. To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

    Published: 11/21/2023
16. Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light

    Published: 11/8/2023
17. How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats

    Published: 10/25/2023
18. JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

    Published: 10/11/2023
19. Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

    Published: 9/27/2023
20. Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't

    Published: 9/13/2023