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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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A blue person made of code walks down a pink road patterned with hexagons

Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

A wormhole split in two with swirls of blue on one side and swirls of pink on the other with a ringed planet in the background.

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

Information dog bottleneck

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

Digital question marks surrounded by vines

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

Lion, leopard, tiger

Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution

Svitlana Mayboroda

Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs

What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

Nash equilibrium maze

In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

15 pentagon tessellations

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?

Dark matter superfluid

Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid

Combinatorics and constellations

A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

Is a spiderweb part of the animal’s mind?

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb

Illustration of a salamander

How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering

Thomas Royen by Rüdiger Nehmzow

A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost

A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold