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Quanta Podcast

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

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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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