Season 2019 episodes2019-01-10

Season 2019

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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Episodes

Season 2019

Episode 1

Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

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Episode 2

Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics

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Episode 3

What Is Turbulence?

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Episode 4

Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies

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Episode 5

Season 2019

Season 2019

Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics

What Is Turbulence?

Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies

Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System

CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise

Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs

Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments

What Is Universality?

What Are Feynman Diagrams?

Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors

Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change

Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe

Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells

Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics

Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior

Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics

Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet

Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed

Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science