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Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
Episode 27 : Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
December. 20,2016
Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.
Episode 26 : Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
December. 08,2016
Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.
Episode 25 : Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
November. 29,2016
Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.
Episode 24 : Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
November. 23,2016
Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.
Episode 23 : Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
November. 03,2016
Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.
Episode 22 : Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
October. 26,2016
Michael Costanzo, a biologist at the University of Toronto and a lead author on the new study, explains why it’s important to understand how genes interact.
Episode 21 : Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
October. 18,2016
A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
Episode 20 : Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
October. 11,2016
What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.
Episode 19 : Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
October. 11,2016
Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.
Episode 18 : Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
October. 11,2016
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.
Episode 17 : Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
October. 11,2016
Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.
Episode 16 : Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
October. 11,2016
Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.
Episode 15 : Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
October. 11,2016
What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.
Episode 14 : Peter and Rosemary Grant
September. 22,2016
Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.
Episode 13 : Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
September. 01,2016
Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.
Episode 12 : Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
August. 04,2016
Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.
Episode 11 : How Does Life Come From Randomness?
June. 30,2016
David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.
Episode 10 : Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
June. 10,2016
Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.
Episode 9 : Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
May. 23,2016
Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.
Episode 8 : Janna Levin on Science and Culture
May. 06,2016
Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.
Episode 7 : David Moore: Tabletop Physics
May. 05,2016
Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.
Episode 6 : Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
May. 04,2016
David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.
Episode 5 : Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
April. 14,2016
David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.
Episode 4 : David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
March. 17,2016
David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.
Episode 3 : Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
March. 04,2016
Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.
Episode 2 : Are We Alone in the Universe?
February. 04,2016
David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.
Episode 1 : Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
January. 29,2016
Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."
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