Season 2020 episodes2020-01-22

Season 2020

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 2020

Episode 1

Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math

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Episode 2

Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research

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Episode 3

Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa

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Episode 4

Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections

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Episode 5

Season 2020

Season 2020

Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math

Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research

Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa

Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections

Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs

Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions

Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]

Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End

James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems

Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras

Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond

'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'

Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator

The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory

Urban Traffic and Complex Systems

Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity

The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space

The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life

The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter

Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change

How to Shrink Big Data

The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question

2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics

2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science

2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology