Season 2021 episodes2021-01-04

Season 2021

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 2021

Episode 1

The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained

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Episode 2

What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner

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Episode 3

Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women

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Episode 4

How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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Episode 5

Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong

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Season 2021

Season 2021

The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained

What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner

Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women

How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong

This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math

Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien

Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond

Iceland Is Mars, on Earth

Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces

The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics

Black Hole Jets: One of the Biggest Mysteries in the Universe

Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics

What’s Inside an Exoplanet

The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory

The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model

How to Build Truly Intelligent AI

How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome

The Scientific Problem of Consciousness

Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds

When Biology Meets Computer Science

How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe

2021's Breakthroughs in Neuroscience and Other Biology

2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics

2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science