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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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An illustration that shows words and music from an opera singer going into a listener’s brain.

The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds

An illustration of a cell sitting atop a circuit diagram.

Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals

A 3D model showing red plumes in the mantle.

A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface

One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

Illustration of various kinds of clocks floating against a pink background.

The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

An artist’s conception of the ways that functional capacities have been mapped to regions of the brain.

The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

Animation of a gemstone flipping up and down between mirror-image states.

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

Electron microscopy of T4 bacteriophages.

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

Artistic representation of water radiolysis supporting life below ground.

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

Photo of Rafflesia arnoldii growing on vines in Indonesian forest.

DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists

A mosaic of five microscope images of igneous rocks. The rocks are dappled with blue, pink, orange and multicolor inclusions.

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

Graphic of swirling vortex-like patterns called skyrmions.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

An illustration of a doughnut-shaped elliptic curve intertwined with the Julia set.

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets