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Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

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An illustration shows zero lit by spotlight; it flickers in a cave that looks like a brain.

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

An illustration shows a bee, decorated with positive charges, approaching a field of flowers that wear negative charges. An electric field emerges between them.

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

A translucent comb jelly collected from the deep sea.

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images

What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy

Marbles representing memories fall onto an abstracted head which contains a maze with holes. Some of the marbles land in the holes or roll into them, while others fall off the side.

Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

A close-up of a bee’s head, showing its large eyes, antennae and fuzzy body.

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

Photo of a telescope sitting atop a mountain beneath a starry sky.

Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

An illustration shows a bright ball of light slowing down brain waves.

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy

A disk features swirling red and orange lines in the central region and blue and pink lines nearer the edge. The disk appears to bend the space-time fabric around it.

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption