The Quanta Podcast

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

Audio Edition: How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field

Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?

Audio Edition: After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem

When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?

Is Gravity Just Rising Entropy?

Audio Edition: How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics

How Amateurs Solved a Major Computer Science Puzzle

The Mysterious Math of Turbulence

Audio Edition: Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories

Birds' Migratory Mitochondria

Singularities Are Hard to Kill

Audio Edition: Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case.

In Computers, Memory Is More Useful Than Time

Math and Beauty in the Age of AI

Audio Edition: Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images

What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy

Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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