The Quanta Podcast

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

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

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

Tiny Language Models Come of Age

This podcast episode discusses the training of language models, particularly the use of synthetic children's stories as a training dataset for smaller language models. Researchers have explored the use of these tiny language models due to the challenges associated with training large models, including cost and interpre...

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells