The Quanta Podcast

Audio Edition: The Core of Fermat's Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

Taking the Temperature of Quantum Entanglement

How Hard Is It to Untie a Knot?

Audio Edition: How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory

What Happens When Lakes Stop Mixing

Game Theory, Algorithms and High Prices

Why Are Waves So Hard to Grasp? TKTKTKTKT - audio coda

Sleep Is Not All or Nothing

In The Quanta Podcast, Samir Patel interviews Yasemin Saplakoglu about the science of sleep and wakefulness. They discuss the traditional view of sleep as an on-off phenomenon versus the modern understanding of it as a spectrum where parts of the brain can be awake while others are asleep. They delve into EEG readings ...

Audio Edition: A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting

The Mystery of Early Universe's Little Red Dots

A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals

Audio Edition: 'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

What We Learn From Running 'Life' in Reverse

The Math of Catastrophe

Audio Edition: Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems

What Can a Cell Remember?

Climate Modeling Is at a Crossroads

Audio Edition: A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems

AI's Dark Side Is Only a Nudge Away

How We Came To Know Earth