text reads Quanta Science Podcast

podcasts

Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

Filter by Topics

New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

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

During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

Tiny Language Models Come of Age

What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

Illustration of a bacterial cell in mid-fission. Its threads of DNA and other internal molecules are divided between the cells. A constriction on the midline marks where the daughter cells are splitting.

Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

The curling bodies of two differently colored roundworms overlap with a virus-shaped element in the background.

Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species