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**The Quanta Podcast**

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself, and much more, The Quanta Podcast is a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. In each episode, *Quanta Magazine* Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Quanta specifically covers fundamental research — driven by curiosity, discovery and the overwhelming desire to know why and how. Join us every Tuesday for a stimulating conversation about the biggest ideas and the tiniest details.

(If you’ve been a fan of the Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue here. You’ll see those episodes marked as audio edition episodes every two weeks.)

Latest Episodes:

How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering Jun 29, 2017

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Powerful new quantitative tools are now available to combat partisan bias in the drawing of voting districts.

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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost Jun 01, 2017

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When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.

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A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold May 18, 2017

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For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But many now argue for a different cosmic quarry.

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Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View Apr 06, 2017

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The ancient creatures who first crawled onto land may have been lured by the informational benefit that comes from seeing through air.

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New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes Mar 30, 2017

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For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now they’re investigating the unintended consequences of that tinkering.

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Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain Mar 16, 2017

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Powerful new experiments have uncovered some of the molecular underpinnings of sleep.

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Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness Mar 09, 2017

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Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”

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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics Mar 02, 2017

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The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.

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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin Feb 23, 2017

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Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.

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