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Season 2015

Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.

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Season 2015

Episode 1

What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?

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Episode 2

Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

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Episode 3

Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

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Episode 4

Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist

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Episode 5

Season 2015

Season 2015

What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?

Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist

Where Did the Universe Come From?

Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises

Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music

Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces

Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible

Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?

Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse

How Did Life Begin on Earth?

Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies

Why Do Flies Walk This Way?

How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws

James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter

Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships

Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics

What Is a Species?

Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity

Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps

Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life

Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?