Quanta Science Podcast
Listen to Quanta Magazine's in-depth news stories about developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences. Quanta, an editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation, seeks to enhance public understanding of basic research. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. You've learned from Quanta. Now we want to learn from you! Quanta is conducting a series of surveys to better serve our audience. Take our podcast listener survey and you will be entered to win a free Quanta book, t-shirt or tote bag: quantamag.typeform.com/podcastPodcasts
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
Published: April 17, 2024, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
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Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
Published: April 3, 2024, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds
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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
Published: March 20, 2024, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 39 seconds
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Tiny Language Models Come of Age
Published: March 6, 2024, 7:07 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
Published: Feb. 21, 2024, 7:13 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds
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What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells
Published: Feb. 7, 2024, 7:12 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds
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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
Published: Jan. 24, 2024, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
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Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 7:43 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 9 seconds
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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism
Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds
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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past
Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light
Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds
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How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats
Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 6:56 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds
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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 8:27 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 6:43 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
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Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't
Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks
Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 6:09 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 7 seconds
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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds
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Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
Published: July 19, 2023, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
Published: July 5, 2023, 6:58 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds
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The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
Published: June 21, 2023, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses
Published: June 7, 2023, 6:37 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
Published: May 24, 2023, 6:44 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds
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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)
Published: April 26, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 27 seconds
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars
Published: April 12, 2023, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds
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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
Published: March 29, 2023, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds
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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations
Published: March 15, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds
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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
Published: March 1, 2023, 8:02 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds
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Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine'
Published: Feb. 16, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 5:37 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 7:40 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
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A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 7 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds
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Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
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How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve
Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 12 seconds
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Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer's Affect Aging in All Cells
Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 6 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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The Brain Has a 'Low-Power Mode' That Blunts Our Senses
Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 7 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow
Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds
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Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture
Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 6 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds
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Secrets of the Moon's Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds
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Deep Learning Poised to 'Blow Up' Famed Fluid Equations
Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds
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Researchers Identify 'Master Problem' Underlying All Cryptography
Published: July 19, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds
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Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement
Published: July 6, 2022, 7:28 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds
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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed
Published: June 22, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 7 seconds
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes
Published: June 8, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws
Published: May 25, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 26 seconds
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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory
Published: May 11, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 42 seconds
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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
Published: April 27, 2022, 6 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds
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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome 'Tectonics'
Published: April 14, 2022, 6 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life
Published: March 31, 2022, 4:55 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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Evolution 'Landscapes' Predict What's Next for COVID Virus
Published: March 18, 2022, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
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Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution
Published: March 3, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds
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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem
Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
Published: Jan. 6, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells' Molecular Signals
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 52 seconds
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A Massive Subterranean Tree Is Moving Magma to Earths Surface
Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds
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One Labs Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds
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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds
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The Brain Doesnt Think the Way You Think It Does
Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 54 seconds
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 20 seconds
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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
Published: Sept. 30, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds
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DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.
Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes
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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 46 seconds
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Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds
Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds
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DNA of Giant Corpse Flower Parasite Surprises Biologists
Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds
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Scientists Pin Down When Earths Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life
Published: July 22, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivitys Secrets
Published: July 8, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds
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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
Published: June 24, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds
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Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets
Published: June 10, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds
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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
Published: May 27, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds
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Brains Background Noise May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries
Published: May 13, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds
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Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
Published: April 29, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 28 seconds
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Mathematicians Resurrect Hilberts 13th Problem
Published: April 15, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
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A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life
Published: April 1, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds
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The Mystery of Mistletoes Missing Genes
Published: March 18, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
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The New History of the Milky Way
Published: March 4, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds
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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds
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Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds
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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds
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Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds
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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes
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Hidden Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
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Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds
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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?
Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds
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How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Oceans Chemistry
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds
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Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins
Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
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For Embryo's Cells, Size Can Determine Fate
Published: July 30, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 34 seconds
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Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals
Published: July 16, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 41 seconds
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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation
Published: July 2, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 2 seconds
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Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
Published: June 18, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
Published: June 4, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds
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Whats in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists
Published: May 21, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 3 seconds
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Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About Which Came First?
Published: May 7, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems
Published: April 23, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds
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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge
Published: April 9, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Published: March 26, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 28 seconds
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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire
Published: March 12, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds
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Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds
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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure
Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds
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The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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A World Without Clouds
Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds
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How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past
Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 6 seconds
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Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster
Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolutions Speed
Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds
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A Universal Law for the Blood of the Earth
Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds
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Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?
Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds
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Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover
Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds
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In the Nucleus, Genes Activity Might Depend on Their Location
Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 12 seconds
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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager
Published: July 18, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds
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A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
Published: July 5, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds
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Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World
Published: June 20, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
Published: June 6, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds
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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
Published: May 23, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds
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To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future
Published: May 9, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds
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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
Published: April 25, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
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Why Earths Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life
Published: April 11, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 47 seconds
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Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync
Published: March 28, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
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A New Worlds Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
Published: March 14, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
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A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds
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Machine Learnings Amazing Ability to Predict Chaos
Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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To Test Einsteins Equations, Poke a Black Hole
Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals
Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Physicists Find a Way to See the Grin of Quantum Gravity
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds
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Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds
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Why Dont Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues.
Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
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Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 37 seconds
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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 47 seconds
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Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds
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How the Universe Got Its Bounce Back
Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds
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A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild
Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds
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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earths Start
Published: July 5, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds
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Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Published: June 21, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Light-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of Memory
Published: June 7, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
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Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
Published: May 31, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds
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How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure
Published: May 10, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
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Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendels Law
Published: April 26, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer
Published: April 12, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data
Published: March 29, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
Published: March 15, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
Published: March 13, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds
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New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Published: March 1, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
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Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds
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Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 6 seconds
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Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution
Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds
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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
Published: Oct. 12, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 32 seconds
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Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem
Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds
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Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?
Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
Published: Aug. 25, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds
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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End
Published: July 20, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
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The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
Published: July 13, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds
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How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering
Published: June 29, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
Published: June 1, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds
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A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
Published: May 18, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 7 seconds
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Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View
Published: April 6, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
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New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
Published: March 30, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds
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Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain
Published: March 16, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 7 seconds
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Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness
Published: March 9, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
Published: March 2, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Lifes Origin
Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds
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Infant Brains Reveal How the Mind Gets Built
Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
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3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems
Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
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Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds
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The Art of Teaching Math and Science
Published: Jan. 26, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 38 seconds
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The Case Against Dark Matter
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds
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What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones
Published: Nov. 24, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
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Giant Genetic Map Shows Lifes Hidden Links
Published: Nov. 17, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds
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How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
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Strange Dark Galaxy Puzzles Astrophysicists
Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
Published: Oct. 20, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds
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Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
Published: Oct. 13, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 25 seconds
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The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions
Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds
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What No New Particles Means for Physics
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds
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A Debate Over the Physics of Time
Published: Sept. 8, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds
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Biologists Search for New Model Organisms
Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
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Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift
Published: Aug. 11, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
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A Birds-Eye View of Natures Hidden Order
Published: Aug. 5, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds
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How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
Published: July 28, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds
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The Oracle of Arithmetic
Published: July 21, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds
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New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity
Published: July 7, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
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Computing’s Search for Quantum Questions
Published: June 23, 2016, noonDuration: 11 minutes 36 seconds
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Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
Published: June 17, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity
Published: June 9, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds
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New Support for Alternative Quantum View
Published: June 2, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 1 second
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New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness
Published: May 26, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds
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Tiny Tests Seek the Universes Big Mysteries
Published: May 12, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
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A Secret Flexibility Found in Lifes Blueprints
Published: May 5, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
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Physicists Hunt for the Big Bangs Triangles
Published: April 28, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds
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Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory
Published: April 21, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
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Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
Published: April 14, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds
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Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
Published: April 7, 2016, 6 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 28 seconds
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The Beasts That Keep the Beat
Published: March 31, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy
Published: March 24, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds
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A Life in Games
Published: March 24, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds
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After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
Published: March 10, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds
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The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
Published: March 3, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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How to Build Life in a Pre-Darwinian World
Published: Feb. 25, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds
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Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds
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Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
Published: Feb. 11, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 25 seconds
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New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
Published: Feb. 4, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 2 seconds
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Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
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String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity
Published: Jan. 21, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
Published: Jan. 14, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 13 seconds
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Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory
Published: Dec. 17, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds
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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
Published: Dec. 10, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds
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Natures Critical Warning System
Published: Nov. 26, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds
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How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
Published: Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 54 seconds
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Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life
Published: Nov. 12, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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Theorists Draw Closer to Perfect Coloring
Published: Nov. 5, 2015, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 37 seconds
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A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction
Published: Oct. 22, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death
Published: Oct. 15, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds
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A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
Published: Oct. 8, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 16 seconds
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Visions of Future Physics
Published: Oct. 1, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 17 seconds
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How the Bodys Trillions of Clocks Keep Time
Published: Sept. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds
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Einsteins Parable of Quantum Insanity
Published: Sept. 16, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds
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A New Design for Cryptographys Black Box
Published: Sept. 10, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds
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How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease
Published: Sept. 3, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds
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A Surprise Source of Lifes Code
Published: Aug. 27, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds
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How Life and Luck Changed Earths Minerals
Published: Aug. 20, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds
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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life
Published: Aug. 6, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds
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The New Laws of Explosive Networks
Published: July 30, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
Published: July 30, 2015, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds
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