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The Quanta Podcast

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The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

June 30, 2026 5:00am 32 min

In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist pureed a bunch of planarian worms and fed them to other ones. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’ memories. Could he have been...

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

June 23, 2026 5:00am 36 min

How many pieces are there in the Standard Model of particle physics? 17, 30, 37, 61, 118? Or is the true answer much larger — and not even an integer? It depends on your taste for complexity — and mystery. On this episod...

Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?

June 18, 2026 5:00am 12 min

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any functio...

The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math

June 16, 2026 5:00am 33 min

The groundbreaking proof assistant Lean acts as a sort of automatic quality control. It’s gaining ground in the math world — in part because it can interact with AI to open new avenues of inquiry. But there are concerns,...

Ecotypes Make the Idea of a Species Even Fuzzier

June 09, 2026 5:00am 27 min

How do you define a species? The question has been controversial since the days of Darwin. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with writer Marlowe Starling about how recent advances in genomics...

What Actually Causes Lightning?

June 02, 2026 5:00am 21 min

Thunderstorms have captivated humanity for millennia, and yet their inner workings remain deeply mysterious. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, guest host and Quanta senior editor Hannah Waters speaks with staff writ...

Audio Edition: Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

May 28, 2026 5:00am 12 min

According to Einstein’s theory of gravity, black holes have only a small handful of distinguishing characteristics. Quantum theory implies they may have more. Now an experimental search finds that any of this extra ‘hair...

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

May 26, 2026 5:00am 30 min

In 2026, shock at AI’s growing mathematical abilities turned into something more like wonder — and concern. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with writer Konstantin Kakaes about how AI is cha...

Ice Is Way More Complex Than It Seems

May 19, 2026 5:00am 24 min

Over the past decade, computer simulations have predicted tens of thousands of possible forms of ice. Though uncommon on our planet, exotic ice may exist in off-Earth environments, from cold and amorphous comet tails to ...

Audio Edition: How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

May 14, 2026 5:00am 8 min

Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less.The story How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

Our Immune Systems Are Full of Ancient Weapons

May 12, 2026 5:00am 29 min

Billions of years ago, battles between bacteria and viruses wrote the rulebook for how hosts and pathogens behave. Today, our immune system follows suit. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks wit...

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

May 05, 2026 5:00am 30 min

Most mathematicians take the notion of infinity for granted — it’s deeply rooted in math’s most fundamental assumptions. But a small group of researchers hopes to banish infinity completely. On this episode of The Quanta...

Audio Edition: The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

April 30, 2026 5:00am 13 min

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.The story The Cells That Breathe Two Ways first appeared on Quanta ...

Quantum Mechanics Might Be a Secret Key to Secure Communication

April 28, 2026 5:00am 27 min

Together, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard figured out how to use the laws of quantum physics to keep secret messages safe from eavesdroppers. Their efforts have earned them one of the highest awards in computing and ...

Is String Theory Still Our Best Hope?

April 21, 2026 5:00am 26 min

Is string theory the one true “theory of everything?” Some physicists swear it’s a fundamental ingredient of nature. Others wish it would just go away. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with ...

Audio Edition: New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

April 16, 2026 5:00am 13 min

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors. A new method could change that.The story New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes t...

One of Nature’s Most Complex Molecular Machines

April 14, 2026 5:00am 23 min

At the center of little holes in cell nuclei is a mystery. Here, clumps of proteins wiggle disordered tails around like seaweed. They drive a molecular machine that moves countless molecules in and out of the nucleus eff...

The Fundamental Tension at the Heart of Math

April 07, 2026 5:00am 28 min

We tend to think of math as all about logic and rigor. But what “rigor” actually means has been shaken up quite a few times over the past few centuries. The newest attempt to formalize math comes in the form of the compu...

Audio Edition: AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

April 02, 2026 5:00am 14 min

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”The story AI Comes Up With Bizarre Ph...

Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?

March 31, 2026 5:00am 30 min

Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb stairs or open doors? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with contributing writer John Pavlus...

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