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Quanta Magazine Season 2018

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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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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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Quanta Magazine Season 2018 Full Episode Guide

Episode 26 - What Is Emergence?
First Aired: December. 20,2018

How do extraordinarily complex emergent phenomena — like ants assembling themselves into living bridges, or tiny water and air molecules forming into swirling hurricanes — spontaneously arise from systems of much simpler elements? The answer often depends on a transition in the interplay between the elements that resembles a phase change.

Episode 25 - Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity
Episode 24 - Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches
Episode 23 - Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity
First Aired: November. 14,2018

In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory.

Episode 22 - Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite
Episode 21 - Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing
First Aired: October. 24,2018

Just as mathematics transformed physics from a philosophy into a science, data and computation are transforming science today, says Mario Jurić. He’s leading the push to get astronomy ready for the torrents of data that are about to flow. Mario Jurić explains how the nature of what it means to be an astronomer is changing.

Episode 20 - Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development
First Aired: October. 15,2018

Stem cell researcher Renee Reijo Pera of Montana State University explains how the timing of developmental events in the early embryo can subtly affect health many years later.

Episode 19 - Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets
Episode 17 - 2018 Fields Medal Coverage at Quanta Magazine
First Aired: August. 06,2018

Mathematicians Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh have been awarded the Fields Medal. Computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis won the Nevanlinna Prize.

Episode 16 - Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
Episode 13 - Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
First Aired: August. 01,2018

The mathematician Alessio Figalli is rarely in one place for very long. But his work has established the stability of everything from crystals to weather fronts by using concepts derived from Napoleonic fortifications.

Episode 11 - Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome
First Aired: July. 02,2018

Jessica Whited is a biologist who studies limb regeneration at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Here, she explains how genomic information for the salamander called an axolotl will help us understand the potential for regrowing limbs in humans and other animals.

Episode 10 - Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience
First Aired: June. 19,2018

Carina Curto, a mathematician at Pennsylvania State University, explains how her background in theoretical physics helps her tackle daunting problems in theoretical neuroscience.

Episode 9 - Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos
First Aired: June. 11,2018

Lisa Manning, a physicist at Syracuse University, describes how the physics of glassy materials helps to explain how some organs assume their correct shape during embryonic development.

Episode 8 - Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science
Episode 6 - Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs
Episode 5 - Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes
First Aired: February. 27,2018

Barbara Engelhardt, a computer scientist at Princeton University, explains why traditional machine-learning techniques have often fallen short for genomic analysis, and how researchers are overcoming that challenge.

Episode 3 - Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning
First Aired: January. 30,2018

Neuroscientist Erich Jarvis discusses how the brain circuitry for vocal learning in songbirds and humans evolved from systems for controlling body movements and why so few species have this ability.

Episode 2 - Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy
First Aired: January. 18,2018

Ed Boyden of MIT’s Media Lab, the inventor of expansion microscopy, explains how the technique could illuminate deep mysteries about how the brain works and improve cancer diagnosis, among many other advances.

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