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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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Seasons List
Season 2015
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1. What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
2. Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
3. Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
4. Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
5. Where Did the Universe Come From?
6. Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
7. Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
8. Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
9. Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
10. Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
11. Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
12. How Did Life Begin on Earth?
13. Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
14. Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
15. How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
16. James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
17. Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
18. Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
19. What Is a Species?
20. Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
21. Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
22. Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life
23. Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?
Season 2016
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1. Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
2. Are We Alone in the Universe?
3. Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
4. David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
5. Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
6. Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
7. David Moore: Tabletop Physics
8. Janna Levin on Science and Culture
9. Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
10. Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
11. How Does Life Come From Randomness?
12. Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
13. Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
14. Peter and Rosemary Grant
15. Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
16. Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
17. Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
18. Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
19. Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
20. Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
21. Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
22. Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
23. Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
24. Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
25. Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
26. Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
27. Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
Season 2017
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1. Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution
2. Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
3. Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
4. Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
5. Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
6. John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
7. Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time
8. Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR
9. Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better
10. Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
11. Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark
12. How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole
13. Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves
14. Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
15. Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
16. Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
17. Michael Assis: Atomic Origami
18. Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
19. Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics
20. Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules
Season 2018
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1. Richard Schwartz: In Praise of Simple Problems
2. Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy
3. Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning
4. Daniel Goldman and His Smart Robots
5. Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes
6. Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs
7. Donald Richards: A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe
8. Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science
9. Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos
10. Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience
11. Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome
12. Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics
13. Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
14. Caucher Birkar: An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
15. Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
16. Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
17. 2018 Fields Medal Coverage at Quanta Magazine
18. Rosaly Lopes on Volcanoes Throughout the Solar System
19. Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets
20. Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development
21. Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing
22. Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite
23. Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity
24. Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches
25. Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity
26. What Is Emergence?
Season 2019
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1. Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
2. Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics
3. What Is Turbulence?
4. Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
5. Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System
6. CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise
7. Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs
8. Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments
9. What Is Universality?
10. What Are Feynman Diagrams?
11. Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
12. Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change
13. Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe
14. Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells
15. Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
16. Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior
17. Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics
18. Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet
19. Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed
20. Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science
Season 2020
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1. Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math
2. Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research
3. Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
4. Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections
5. Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs
6. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions
7. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]
8. Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End
9. James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
10. Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
11. Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
12. 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
13. Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
14. The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory
15. Urban Traffic and Complex Systems
16. Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
17. The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space
18. The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
19. The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter
20. Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change
21. How to Shrink Big Data
22. The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question
23. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
24. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
25. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
Season 2021
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1. The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
2. What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
3. Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women
4. How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
5. Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong
6. This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math
7. Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
8. Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond
9. Iceland Is Mars, on Earth
10. Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces
11. The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics
12. Black Hole Jets: One of the Biggest Mysteries in the Universe
13. Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
14. What’s Inside an Exoplanet
15. The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory
16. The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model
17. How to Build Truly Intelligent AI
18. How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
19. The Scientific Problem of Consciousness
20. Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds
21. When Biology Meets Computer Science
22. How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
23. 2021's Breakthroughs in Neuroscience and Other Biology
24. 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
25. 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
Season 2022
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1. The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein
2. How Geometry Shapes Our Lives
3. The Biophysics of a Brainless Animal
4. Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication
5. The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time
6. The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
7. Finally, a Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
8. The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
9. Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins
10. How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions
11. One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty
12. The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem
13. How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
14. 2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
Season 2023
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