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Episode 25 : 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
December. 25,2020
In 2020, the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was undoubtedly the most urgent priority. But there were also some major breakthroughs in other areas. We'd like to take a moment to recognize them.
Episode 24 : 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
December. 24,2020
For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. We'd like to take a moment to recognize some of these achievements.
Episode 23 : 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
December. 23,2020
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery.
Episode 22 : The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question
December. 14,2020
Questions like “why do men and women act differently?” are age-old, with tangled, deeply buried answers. But that is why Catherine Dulac, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, has become so well respected by her neuroscientist colleagues for the originality and creativity with which she has brought important answers to light.
Episode 21 : How to Shrink Big Data
December. 07,2020
Jelani Nelson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, expands the theoretical possibilities for low-memory streaming algorithms. He’s discovered the best procedures for answering on-the-fly questions like “How many different users are there?” (known as the distinct elements problem) and “What are the trending search terms right now?” (the frequent items problem). Nelson’s algorithms often use a technique called sketching, which compresses big data sets into smaller components that can be stored using less memory and analyzed quickly.
Episode 20 : Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change
November. 17,2020
Bryna Kra searches for structures using symbolic dynamics. “[I love] finding order where you didn’t know it existed,” she said. "This is how I think about math: It’s about how things fit together."
Episode 19 : The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter
November. 05,2020
Cora Dvorkin studies the invisible universe. Known as dark matter, it is thought to comprise roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. So far, no researcher has been able to directly detect it. But that only further excites Dvorkin, who is on a quest to uncover its secrets.
Episode 18 : The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
October. 26,2020
L. Mahadevan is a professor of applied mathematics, physics, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He uses mathematics and physics to explore commonplace phenomena, showing that many of the objects and behaviors we take for granted, and consequently give little thought to, are quite extraordinary upon closer examination.
Episode 17 : The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space
October. 21,2020
Vint Cerf is one of the fathers of the internet. Decades ago, he and Robert Kahn developed the architecture and protocol suite known as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Anyone who has ever surfed the web, sent an email, or downloaded an app has them to thank.
Now, Cerf wants to boldly go where no internet has gone before. He's designing an interplanetary internet. But extending the internet to space isn’t just a matter of installing Wi-Fi on rockets. Scientists have novel obstacles to contend with. In this new video, Cerf discusses how an internet in space.
Episode 16 : Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
October. 14,2020
MIT physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.
Episode 15 : Urban Traffic and Complex Systems
September. 28,2020
Carlos Gershenson, a computer scientist and complexity researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, answers questions about how principles of adaptation and self-organization can help transportation systems beat traffic jams and other urban mobility problems.
Episode 14 : The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory
September. 03,2020
By turning higher category theory on itself, Emily Riehl hopes to make the powerful perspective more accessible to other mathematicians.
Episode 13 : Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
September. 02,2020
Emily Riehl talks about how higher category theory is like the viola, why she's drawn to expository writing, and the responsibility mathematicians have to address social justice issues.
Episode 12 : 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
August. 18,2020
The theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why gravity is so fundamental to our understanding of everything in the universe.
Episode 11 : Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
July. 20,2020
The microbial ecologist John Priscu of Montana State University discusses what led him to seek life beneath the barren, frozen wastes of Antarctica — and how his discoveries there are shaping the search for life on other worlds.
Episode 10 : Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
July. 09,2020
Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald studies unique atmospheric phenomena such as the aurora called STEVE.
Episode 9 : James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
July. 01,2020
James Maynard talks about why he’s obsessed with prime numbers.
Episode 8 : Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End
June. 22,2020
Katie Mack describes the most likely scenario for the end of the universe.
Episode 7 : Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]
May. 07,2020
Dr. Tara C. Smith is an infectious disease epidemiologist and contributing columnist for Quanta Magazine. In two recent columns for Quanta, Dr. Smith explored the animal origins of the novel coronavirus and explained how prior knowledge about other coronaviruses may help answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 1, 2020, she answered questions live on Quanta's YouTube channel.
Episode 6 : Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions
May. 01,2020
Dr. Tara C. Smith is an infectious disease epidemiologist and contributing columnist for Quanta Magazine. In two recent columns for Quanta, Dr. Smith explored the animal origins of the novel coronavirus and explained how prior knowledge about other coronaviruses may help answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 1, 2020, she answered questions live on Quanta's YouTube channel.
Episode 5 : Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs
March. 25,2020
Evidence from the oceans decisively shows that an asteroid strike caused the last mass extinction, argues Pincelli Hull. The cataclysm continues to hold lessons for today.
Episode 4 : Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections
March. 12,2020
Ronald Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes the role of computers in voting and what makes elections trustworthy.
Episode 3 : Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
March. 03,2020
Omololu Akin-Ojo of the East African Institute for Fundamental Research discusses his plans to invigorate theoretical physics in Africa, including by focusing on problems related to energy and water that will especially impact the continent.
Episode 2 : Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research
February. 03,2020
James P. Allison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discusses what initially drew him to immunology as a field and why many scientists used to be skeptical that an immunological strategy for killing cancers would work.
Episode 1 : Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math
January. 22,2020
Scarlett Howard describes how and why she taught honeybees math.
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