Quanta Science Podcast

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Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

Recent Episodes
  • Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage
    Oct 30, 2024 – 19:07
  • AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities
    Oct 16, 2024 – 25:11
  • Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
    Oct 2, 2024 – 18:08
  • Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
    Sep 18, 2024 – 20:13
  • Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy
    Sep 4, 2024 – 12:36
  • Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton
    Aug 21, 2024 – 17:46
  • Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
    Aug 7, 2024 – 17:44
  • Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
    Apr 3, 2024 – 22:15
  • Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic Fields
    Jul 25, 2024 – 11:03
  • New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
    Jul 10, 2024 – 13:23
  • New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
    Jun 26, 2024 – 21:05
  • Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
    Jun 11, 2024 – 25:08
  • Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
    May 29, 2024 – 20:57
  • In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge
    May 15, 2024 – 17:25
  • During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus
    May 1, 2024 – 09:59
  • Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
    Feb 21, 2024 – 21:48
  • Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
    Apr 17, 2024 – 21:16
  • Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
    Mar 20, 2024 – 20:39
  • Tiny Language Models Come of Age
    Mar 6, 2024 – 20:48
  • What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells
    Feb 7, 2024 – 23:58
  • An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
    Jan 24, 2024 – 16:37
  • JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
    Oct 11, 2023 – 25:05
  • Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
    Jan 10, 2024 – 15:21
  • Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism
    Dec 6, 2023 – 12:47
  • Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
    Dec 20, 2023 – 13:09
  • To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past
    Nov 21, 2023 – 15:56
  • Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light
    Nov 8, 2023 – 13:37
  • How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats
    Oct 25, 2023 – 12:09
  • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
    Sep 27, 2023 – 18:27
  • Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't
    Sep 13, 2023 – 16:59
  • Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks
    Aug 30, 2023 – 21:07
  • How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
    Aug 2, 2023 – 21:28
  • Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
    Aug 16, 2023 – 19:26
  • Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
    Jul 19, 2023 – 19:41
  • Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
    Jul 5, 2023 – 20:41
  • Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars
    Apr 12, 2023 – 14:36
  • The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
    Jun 21, 2023 – 21:48
  • Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses
    Jun 7, 2023 – 17:56
  • How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
    May 24, 2023 – 13:58
  • What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)
    May 10, 2023 – 41:24
  • What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)
    Apr 26, 2023 – 34:27
  • New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
    Mar 29, 2023 – 18:55
  • How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations
    Mar 15, 2023 – 18:56
  • Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
    Mar 1, 2023 – 12:19
  • Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine'
    Feb 16, 2023 – 16:34
  • High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
    Feb 1, 2023 – 15:21
  • Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
    Jan 18, 2023 – 20:03
  • A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
    Jan 4, 2023 – 20:20
  • Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
    Dec 21, 2022 – 20:34
  • How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
    Dec 7, 2022 – 16:57
Recent Reviews
  • ccshatz
    Classic! No banter, just mind stretching ideas.
    This is the sort of script that draws me to the show. Well written and delivered as far as I, a non scientist , can tell.
  • buskilla
    The best
    When the best podcast in the planet, the best for science and math
  • MarkChicagoIL
    Deleted review
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  • yodas pancakes
    Disgusting
    This is how you ruin a community, this is how you spawn pseudoscience, this is why we’re failing.
  • chipsndips
    Good in its Own Right
    If you liked an article on Quanta, you should definitely listen to the podcast episode, and vice versa! There's always unique information and has good production with the format of interviews.
  • RemoteCtrlxo
    Gobbledygook.
    Fairy tales and unscientific mysticism.
  • NamHLe
    Good content but annoying narrating
    The narrator Susan doesn’t deliver the story to its fullest. Reading word by word with random emphasis all over the places makes listening to her very distracting and uninspired.
  • AJ672021
    Best Science Podcast
    Very comprehensive and accurate.
  • ifuseekae
    Oh this host
    The information is immensely interesting, but the host delivers it like she has absolutely no objective outside of saying the words correctly and sometimes sounds annoyed to be talking at all.
  • D. Eeznuts
    Awesome breadth of topics explored
    Great podcast well written and gives stellar overviews of the latest in many topics.
  • jersey4878
    Phenomenal podcast.
    A great science podcast. Interesting topics that are thoroughly discussed. A serious source that isn’t dumbed down.
  • G-LJ
    Only remaining in depth treatment of science
    In recent years almost all scientific podcasts have tended to dumb things down as time progressed to the point that even professional scientists found some of them incomprehensible. This however is not true for Quanta magazine which has kept up standards of high quality information that covers the nuances and the logic behind the important issues and the evidence that supports the evolving views of all kinds of disciplines of fast changing science. This is truly scientific reporting done right and the measure by which all other scientific reporting should be measured today in the 2020’s.
  • Jjjhoyt
    Amazing!
    Real mental challenge to follow in the best possible way. It’s cutting edge. Incredible range of topics intelligently written about, and read. Usually this non STEM person (me) can just about follow what’s going on, often I relisten to episodes because they’re jam packed.
  • Sophiellin
    Ok
    It was too much information to take in. Too many numbers and facts at once. Very accurate though!
  • Almost Somebody
    Excellent way to follow fields outside your particular expertise
    very high quality science, one of the best podcasts i know
  • Awinde05
    So good!
    The right blend of breadth and depth. Clear enough to give the lay person an introduction but “meaty” enough to merit multiple listens and provide a great jumping off point for more information.
  • T-Mo31
    Top quality
    Will not disappoint
  • Bklyn guy
    Great content, but...
    The content is great. But during interviews it sounds like someone is transcribing whoever is speaking and the microphone is picking up the keyboard typing.
  • Mt. Shasta
    Great Writing from the Edge of Knowledge
    My new favorite science podcast. Great writing that goes deep into a subject and tries to convey some of the more complex nuances of current scientific thinking. If you like this podcast also check out Scientific Odyssey for a great science history podcast.
  • Action2Fluency
    Exceptional content and delivery
    Quanta Magazine was a new discovery for me in 2020 and I’m in love with the content and the way it’s delivered. Beyond educational, it’s the entertainment that keeps me equally engaged. The podcast supplements the magazine by providing bite size articles. I find myself eagerly awaiting each podcast. This is top notch!
  • Chaim K.
    Fascinating and informative fun!
    Quanta magazine is probably the best and most important science magazine around. The articles are Clever, detailed and legitimate science not just “gee whiz, look how brilliant we all are.” The writing is top notch and the podcast is like a second dessert filling in the details with a more human touch. Truly this is the modern model for podcasts in this genre and is destined to win awards just like the written magazine has!
  • Mark__m
    Critters be damned!
    Is it the mind, or the brain, which came first? Are we scientists or philosophers? Does it even matter?
  • MIT kid 2010
    Blast for science-lovers
    I've been blazing through this podcast's back episodes at 1.5 speed, it's really fun!!
  • Kyoung21b
    Excellent podcast
    This podcast does a great job at including enough detail to allow for an understanding not only of the subject under discussion but of the larger context of the research. Though fluff pieces on science have their place it was sad to see some negative reviews of this podcast by people who apparently expected such fluff pieces here when, in my view, this podcast (and magazine) has a completely different, and welcome, aim.
  • Hfshrdv
    Excellent
    A spectacular podcast. Consistently interesting, and much less dumbed down compared to other science news outlets.
  • PerryBorenstein
    Very Intense
    This is a very intense science podcast. It goes deeply into science issues.
  • nateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    this podcast is amazing
    so good
  • Ixzo
    Great content - unbearable delivery
    I love QuantaMagazine online so I was excited to see a podcast. However, the presenter's reading style is too difficult to listen to anymore. It's as far from natural speaking as you can get, clearly just reading from a script in a painfully stilted manner. Unfortunately I won't be listening again until they get someone else to read/speak.
  • Mfawnway
    Artist Loves This Podcast
    Thanks for this terrific podcast. Especially enjoyed the avian eyes episode.
  • Info414
    One of the best Science podcast
    You can't go wrong with this,
  • Mike1636252
    Great way to learn about current science!
    This podcast serves up a dense, but digestible, helping of science. You'll stay up to date on the latest goings on in a wide variety of scientific research fields. Topics are explained very well without feeling like a dissertation. I recommend this podcast for people who like Inquiring Minds or Startalk, and don't mind digging in to topics a little deeper.
  • MIflyer
    Great podcast!
    Love this podcast, just like QM website & stories. Please keep it going.
  • Junko Jones
    My favorite science podcast
    A great mix of topics, at a level that is a little higher than most science podcasts. Lots of shows about math, which I love! The presenter is very pleasant to listen to. My only suggestion would be to check pronunciation of all foreign names, since many are tricky. Some examples I've heard: Fermat (should be 'Fer-mah', the 't' is silent), Gauss (rhymes with 'house'), Von Neumann (should be 'Von Noy-men'). Not a big deal, though! Overall, though, this is a great series! Thank you!
  • krs617
    Presenter struggles
    I really enjoy Quanta the magazine, but the podcast is very difficult to listen to. It's not so much that the presenter reads in monotone, because she does make an effort to emphasize certain words, perform vocal inflections, etc. But the pacing is so off. Like, she doesn't pause at the end of phrases or sentences like you would ordinarily expect someone who is reading aloud. In audio, that's very important because the listener relies on the narrator for those queues. It's very strange. Perhaps additional coaching or they can find someone else to read the articles - in the meantime I will be unsubscribing.
  • Ad<3DW
    Intelligent and current news.
    Thanks for keeping me up to date. I appreciate the thoroughness of the discussions, the calm delivery, and the brevity of this podcast.
  • sam harrison 456
    Love this
    One of the best science podcasts out there. It covers new and cutting edge ideas, for people who understand, or want to understand, how scientific reasoning actually works.
  • Fydor Dostoevsky
    Great podcast
    As a scientist, I really enjoy this podcast. The material is fascinating and covers topics not normally seen as “sexy” in a lot of popularizations of science. They do a great job with attributions and making sure to get several views on a subject. It’s not meant to be funny, so I’m not sure what the other reviewer was expecting. They do a great job turning the science into a story, and in that way it is very entertaining. Overall, these are extremely informative podcasts. A scientist or science enthusiast would likely enjoy these. Please keep them coming!
  • Twiddle me thumbs
    Quanta podcast... for when you can't fall asleep.
    The content is OK. But the delivery is so dry and uninteresting.
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