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Quanta Podcast

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

All Episodes about astrophysics

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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

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The New History of the Milky Way

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Magnetic fields in the universe.

The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View

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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

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A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid

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