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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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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

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Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge

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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure

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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed

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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate

A blue person made of code walks down a pink road patterned with hexagons

Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse

A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation