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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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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

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

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.

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.

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