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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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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks

Human figures in fetal positions float through a dim, twilit space.

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

A stylized illustration showing half the heads and brains of a lizard and a mouse in cross-section side by side.

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

A sad woman stands under an umbrella that is decorated with images of brains, molecules and DNA. Rain falls on her under the umbrella but the day is otherwise clear.

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

An African army ant queen and worker against a white background, emphasizing the huge difference in their sizes

Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

Illustration in which a forest scene is mirrored in a person’s right eye while the left eye shows a clock.

How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.

Illustration of butterflies with similar wing-color patterns holding bundles of DNA.

How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations

A frog leaps out of the frame of the video.

Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping

A human figure in a brain landscape stands at a fork in a road. One way goes to pleasant surroundings, the other to an unpleasant place.

A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.

A blueprint-like rendering of the biomechanics of a bird wing.

Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight

Sculpted, latticed structure of a grain of olive pollen.

How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve

Micrograph of a neuron showing aggregations of tau protein.

Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells

The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

A video that shows washes of light moving across a model of a human brain.

Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement

Image of Trichoplax adhaerens moving against a black background.

This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed