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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
...the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re going to be looking at our best current understanding of the origin of life. How did life...
What Is Life?
...into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about what it means to be alive. What is life?...
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
...that I met a math teacher who instilled this interest and excitement for math in me. I started taking more math classes and decided that maybe I’ll go into science...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...and this is The Joy of Why podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re...
The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
...would point it out and say, “No, don’t accept this.” That really helped. Did anything else get you excited about math and science? Before high school all the math that...
Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes
...about a certain math problem. It had roots in a broader question, one that the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss considered to be among the most important in mathematics: how to...
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem. Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
...finds a surprisingly straightforward answer. As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System
...burst to prominence in mathematics in 1994 when Andrew Wiles used them to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, among the most celebrated results of 20th century mathematics. This past January, Ana...