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The Quanta Podcast

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The Quanta Podcast

184 episodes · 5 with AI analysis

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself, and much more, The Quanta Podcast is a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. In each episode, Quanta Magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Quanta specifically covers fundamental research — driven by curiosity, discovery and the overwhelming desire to know why and how. Join us every Tuesday for a stimulating conversation about the biggest ideas and the tiniest details. (If you've been a fan of the Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue here. You'll see those episodes marked as audio edition episodes every two weeks.)

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Topics · top 10

Innate Immune System EvolutionBacterial Defense Mechanisms Against PhagesC-gas-sting Pathway ConservationHorizontal Gene Transfer in BacteriaProtein Structure ConvergenceCRISPR as Bacterial Immune SystemDefense Islands in Bacterial GenomesViral-Bacterial Evolutionary Arms RacesCyclic Dinucleotides SignalingAdaptive vs Innate Immunity

Analyzed Episodes

May 12, 2026

Our Immune Systems Are Full of Ancient Weapons

Innate Immune System EvolutionBacterial Defense Mechanisms Against PhagesC-gas-sting Pathway Conservation
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Jan 27, 2026

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

Standard Model of Particle Physics limitationsHiggs boson discovery and post-2012 stagnationSupersymmetry particle search failure
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Feb 3, 2026

Do AI Models Agree On How They Encode Reality?

AI Model Internal RepresentationsNeural Network InterpretabilityPlatonic Forms in Artificial Intelligence
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Feb 5, 2026

Audio Edition: Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles

Bosons and fermions classificationSpin-statistics theoremQuantum mechanics fundamentals
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Feb 10, 2026

Mathematicians Want To Make Fluid Equations Glitch Out

Navier-Stokes equations and fluid dynamicsMathematical singularities and blow-upsPhysically informed neural networks (PINNs)
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