Quanta Science Podcast

260 Episodes

1. Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed

   Published: 10/31/2019
2. A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’

   Published: 9/26/2019
3. Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?

   Published: 9/26/2019
4. Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

   Published: 9/6/2019
5. In the Nucleus, Genes’ Activity Might Depend on Their Location

   Published: 8/29/2019
6. Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room

   Published: 8/15/2019
7. The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

   Published: 8/1/2019
8. Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager

   Published: 7/18/2019
9. A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate

   Published: 7/5/2019
10. Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World

    Published: 6/20/2019
11. To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

    Published: 6/6/2019
12. The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

    Published: 5/23/2019
13. To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future

    Published: 5/9/2019
14. Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

    Published: 4/25/2019
15. Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life

    Published: 4/11/2019
16. Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync

    Published: 3/28/2019
17. A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

    Published: 3/14/2019
18. A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate

    Published: 2/28/2019
19. Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

    Published: 2/14/2019
20. Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

    Published: 1/31/2019