Quanta Magazine
Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
Watch now
Episodes
- 1 1. What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?2015-06-10David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
- 2 2. Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.2015-06-11A 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
- 3 3. Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos2015-06-12A 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.
- 4 4. Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist2015-06-15A 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.
- 5 5. Where Did the Universe Come From?2015-06-16Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.
- 6 6. Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises2015-06-17The 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 th
- 7 7. Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music2015-06-19A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”
- 8 8. Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces2015-06-23A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.
- 9 9. Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible2015-06-24A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.
- 10 10. Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?2015-07-02In 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 t
- 11 11. Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse2015-07-09University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.
- 12 12. How Did Life Begin on Earth?2022-07-20In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.
- 13 13. Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies2015-07-21Benjamin 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 l
- 14 14. Why Do Flies Walk This Way?2015-07-22In 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
- 15 15. How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws2015-08-17In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.
- 16 16. James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter2015-08-25James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.
- 17 17. Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships2015-09-18Nancy 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.
- 18 18. Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics2015-09-23Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.
- 19 19. What Is a Species?2015-09-24David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.
- 20 20. Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity2015-10-23Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.
- 21 21. Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps2015-11-06Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.
- 22 22. Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life2015-11-20Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.
- 23 23. Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?2015-12-18Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.
Images
You might also like
★ 7.5
★ 7.1
★ 6.6
★ 7.4
★ 7.0
★ 8.2
★ 8.6
★ 8.0
★ 7.1
★ 8.1
★ 7.6
★ 8.4
★ 8.2
★ 7.6
★ 7.9
★ 7.6
★ 7.5
★ 8.0