Episode 1
Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
2016-01-29
Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."
TV season
2016-01-29
Episode 1
2016-01-29
Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."
Episode 2
2016-02-04
David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.
Episode 3
2016-03-04
Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.
Episode 4
2016-03-17
David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.
Episode 5
2016-04-14
David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.
Episode 6
2016-05-04
David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.
Episode 7
2016-05-05
Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.
Episode 8
2016-05-06
Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.
Episode 9
2016-05-23
Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.
Episode 10
2016-06-10
Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.
Episode 11
2016-06-30
David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.
Episode 12
2016-08-04
Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.
Episode 13
2016-09-01
Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.
Episode 14
2016-09-22
Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.
Episode 15
2016-10-11
What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.
Episode 16
2016-10-11
Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.
Episode 17
2016-10-11
Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.
Episode 18
2016-10-11
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.
Episode 19
2016-10-11
Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.
Episode 20
2016-10-11
What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.
Episode 21
2016-10-18
A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
Episode 22
2016-10-26
Michael Costanzo, a biologist at the University of Toronto and a lead author on the new study, explains why it’s important to understand how genes interact.
Episode 23
2016-11-03
Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.
Episode 24
2016-11-23
Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.
Episode 25
2016-11-29
Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.
Episode 26
2016-12-08
Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.
Episode 27
2016-12-20
Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.