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Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
9 seasons
Season 2015
2015 · 23 episodes
Season 2015
2015 · 23 episodes
- 1 1. What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
- 2 2. Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
- 3 3. Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
- 4 4. Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
- 5 5. Where Did the Universe Come From?
- 6 6. Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
- 7 7. Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
- 8 8. Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
- 9 9. Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
- 10 10. Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
- 11 11. Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
- 12 12. How Did Life Begin on Earth?
- 13 13. Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
- 14 14. Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
- 15 15. How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
- 16 16. James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
- 17 17. Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
- 18 18. Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
- 19 19. What Is a Species?
- 20 20. Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
- 21 21. Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
- 22 22. Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life
- 23 23. Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?
Season 2016
2016 · 27 episodes
Season 2016
2016 · 27 episodes
- 1 1. Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
- 2 2. Are We Alone in the Universe?
- 3 3. Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
- 4 4. David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
- 5 5. Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
- 6 6. Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
- 7 7. David Moore: Tabletop Physics
- 8 8. Janna Levin on Science and Culture
- 9 9. Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
- 10 10. Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
- 11 11. How Does Life Come From Randomness?
- 12 12. Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
- 13 13. Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
- 14 14. Peter and Rosemary Grant
- 15 15. Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
- 16 16. Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
- 17 17. Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
- 18 18. Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
- 19 19. Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
- 20 20. Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
- 21 21. Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
- 22 22. Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
- 23 23. Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
- 24 24. Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
- 25 25. Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
- 26 26. Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
- 27 27. Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
Season 2017
2017 · 20 episodes
Season 2017
2017 · 20 episodes
- 1 1. Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution
- 2 2. Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
- 3 3. Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
- 4 4. Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
- 5 5. Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
- 6 6. John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
- 7 7. Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time
- 8 8. Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR
- 9 9. Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better
- 10 10. Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
- 11 11. Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark
- 12 12. How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole
- 13 13. Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves
- 14 14. Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
- 15 15. Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
- 16 16. Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
- 17 17. Michael Assis: Atomic Origami
- 18 18. Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
- 19 19. Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics
- 20 20. Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules
Season 2018
2018 · 26 episodes
Season 2018
2018 · 26 episodes
- 1 1. Richard Schwartz: In Praise of Simple Problems
- 2 2. Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy
- 3 3. Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning
- 4 4. Daniel Goldman and His Smart Robots
- 5 5. Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes
- 6 6. Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs
- 7 7. Donald Richards: A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe
- 8 8. Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science
- 9 9. Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos
- 10 10. Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience
- 11 11. Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome
- 12 12. Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics
- 13 13. Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
- 14 14. Caucher Birkar: An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
- 15 15. Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
- 16 16. Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
- 17 17. 2018 Fields Medal Coverage at Quanta Magazine
- 18 18. Rosaly Lopes on Volcanoes Throughout the Solar System
- 19 19. Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets
- 20 20. Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development
- 21 21. Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing
- 22 22. Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite
- 23 23. Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity
- 24 24. Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches
- 25 25. Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity
- 26 26. What Is Emergence?
Season 2019
2019 · 20 episodes
Season 2019
2019 · 20 episodes
- 1 1. Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
- 2 2. Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics
- 3 3. What Is Turbulence?
- 4 4. Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
- 5 5. Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System
- 6 6. CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise
- 7 7. Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs
- 8 8. Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments
- 9 9. What Is Universality?
- 10 10. What Are Feynman Diagrams?
- 11 11. Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
- 12 12. Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change
- 13 13. Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe
- 14 14. Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells
- 15 15. Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
- 16 16. Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior
- 17 17. Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics
- 18 18. Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet
- 19 19. Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed
- 20 20. Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science
Season 2020
2020 · 25 episodes
Season 2020
2020 · 25 episodes
- 1 1. Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math
- 2 2. Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research
- 3 3. Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
- 4 4. Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections
- 5 5. Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs
- 6 6. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions
- 7 7. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]
- 8 8. Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End
- 9 9. James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
- 10 10. Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
- 11 11. Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
- 12 12. 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
- 13 13. Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
- 14 14. The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory
- 15 15. Urban Traffic and Complex Systems
- 16 16. Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
- 17 17. The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space
- 18 18. The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
- 19 19. The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter
- 20 20. Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change
- 21 21. How to Shrink Big Data
- 22 22. The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question
- 23 23. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
- 24 24. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
- 25 25. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
Season 2021
2021 · 25 episodes
Season 2021
2021 · 25 episodes
- 1 1. The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
- 2 2. What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
- 3 3. Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women
- 4 4. How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- 5 5. Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong
- 6 6. This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math
- 7 7. Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
- 8 8. Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond
- 9 9. Iceland Is Mars, on Earth
- 10 10. Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces
- 11 11. The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics
- 12 12. Black Hole Jets: One of the Biggest Mysteries in the Universe
- 13 13. Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
- 14 14. What’s Inside an Exoplanet
- 15 15. The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory
- 16 16. The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model
- 17 17. How to Build Truly Intelligent AI
- 18 18. How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
- 19 19. The Scientific Problem of Consciousness
- 20 20. Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds
- 21 21. When Biology Meets Computer Science
- 22 22. How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
- 23 23. 2021's Breakthroughs in Neuroscience and Other Biology
- 24 24. 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
- 25 25. 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
Season 2022
2022 · 14 episodes
Season 2022
2022 · 14 episodes
- 1 1. The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein
- 2 2. How Geometry Shapes Our Lives
- 3 3. The Biophysics of a Brainless Animal
- 4 4. Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication
- 5 5. The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time
- 6 6. The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
- 7 7. Finally, a Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
- 8 8. The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
- 9 9. Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins
- 10 10. How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions
- 11 11. One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty
- 12 12. The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem
- 13 13. How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
- 14 14. 2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
Season 2023
Season 2023
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