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Season 2016

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 2016

Episode 1

Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

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Episode 2

Are We Alone in the Universe?

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Episode 3

Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind

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Episode 4

David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life

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Episode 5

Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?

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Season 2016

Season 2016

Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

Are We Alone in the Universe?

Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind

David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life

Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?

Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries

David Moore: Tabletop Physics

Janna Levin on Science and Culture

Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius

Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands

How Does Life Come From Randomness?

Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory

Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light

Peter and Rosemary Grant

Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science

Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School

Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future

Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School

Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School

Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls

Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links

Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony

Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter

Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle

Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter