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Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

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What Can a Cell Remember?

An illustration shows a human smelling a bouquet of flowers with many different molecules. There are smelly objects around it, like a perfume bottle, an orange and cheese.

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

An illustration shows a man sitting on a chair next to a film projector inside a large head. In front of him a sequence of images from the airport is projected — the man at the gate, going through security, and sitting on the plane.

How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories

Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories

An illustration shows a human brain. Colorful flowers and plants burst from the left side, while wires and computing notes innervate the right side.

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

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

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

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

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

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

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

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

New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

A person stares at a thought bubble.

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

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