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Quanta Magazine
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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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- 1What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?10 Jun 2015David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
- 2Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.11 Jun 2015A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.
- 3Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos12 Jun 2015A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.
- 4Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist15 Jun 2015A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.
- 5Where Did the Universe Come From?16 Jun 2015Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.
- 6Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises17 Jun 2015The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.
- 7Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music19 Jun 2015A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”
- 8Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces23 Jun 2015A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.
- 9Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible24 Jun 2015A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.
- 10Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?2 Jul 2015In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed cows and an infinite number of two-headed cows. What happens to the ratio?”
- 11Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse9 Jul 2015University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.
- 12How Did Life Begin on Earth?20 Jul 2022In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.
- 13Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies21 Jul 2015Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.
- 14Why Do Flies Walk This Way?22 Jul 2015In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing at the Y’s vertex whether to walk left or right. This array of Y-mazes allows researchers to track individual behavior in many flies simultaneously.
- 15How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws17 Aug 2015In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.
- 16James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter25 Aug 2015James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.
- 17Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships18 Sept 2015Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.
- 18Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics23 Sept 2015Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.
- 19What Is a Species?24 Sept 2015David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.
- 20Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity23 Oct 2015Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.
- 21Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps6 Nov 2015Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.
- 22Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life20 Nov 2015Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.
- 23Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?18 Dec 2015Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.
Details
- Last aired
- 23 Dec 2022
- Status
- Returning Series
- Language
- English
- Network
- YouTube
- Episodes
- 180
