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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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Illustration for "To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget"

To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

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To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future

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

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Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life

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Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync

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A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

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A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate

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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

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Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth

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To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole

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Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals

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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity

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Why Don’t Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues.

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Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World