Quanta Science Podcast

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

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

Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light

How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't

Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks

Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)

What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)

Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars

New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI