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23 episodes • 2015
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole? | Jun 10, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D. | Jun 11, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos | Jun 12, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist | Jun 15, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Where Did the Universe Come From? | Jun 16, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises | Jun 17, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music | Jun 19, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces | Jun 23, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible | Jun 24, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse? | Jul 2, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse | Jul 9, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 12 | How Did Life Begin on Earth? | Jul 20, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies | Jul 21, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Why Do Flies Walk This Way? | Jul 22, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 15 | How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws | Aug 17, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 16 | James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter | Aug 25, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships | Sep 18, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics | Sep 23, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 19 | What Is a Species? | Sep 24, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity | Oct 23, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps | Nov 6, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life | Nov 20, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory? | Dec 18, 2015 | 0.0 |
27 episodes • 2016
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life | Jan 29, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Are We Alone in the Universe? | Feb 4, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind | Mar 4, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 4 | David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life | Mar 17, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Is That 'Bump' a New Particle? | Apr 14, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries | May 4, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 7 | David Moore: Tabletop Physics | May 5, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Janna Levin on Science and Culture | May 6, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius | May 23, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands | Jun 10, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 11 | How Does Life Come From Randomness? | Jun 30, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory | Aug 4, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light | Sep 1, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Peter and Rosemary Grant | Sep 22, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls | Oct 11, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education | Oct 18, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links | Oct 26, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony | Nov 3, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair | Nov 23, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter | Nov 29, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle | Dec 8, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter | Dec 20, 2016 | 0.0 |
20 episodes • 2017
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution | Jan 5, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Francis Su: Math and the Good Life | Feb 3, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody | Feb 4, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’ | Feb 21, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence | Mar 8, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 6 | John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA | Apr 20, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time | May 19, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR | May 25, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better | Jun 7, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation | Jul 10, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark | Aug 10, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 12 | How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole | Aug 21, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves | Aug 22, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right | Aug 23, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution | Aug 31, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World | Sep 11, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Michael Assis: Atomic Origami | Oct 31, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery | Nov 20, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics | Dec 1, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules | Dec 20, 2017 | 0.0 |
26 episodes • 2018
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Schwartz: In Praise of Simple Problems | Jan 9, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy | Jan 18, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning | Jan 30, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Daniel Goldman and His Smart Robots | Feb 14, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes | Feb 27, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs | Mar 19, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Donald Richards: A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe | Apr 11, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science | May 24, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos | Jun 11, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience | Jun 19, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome | Jul 2, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics | Jul 21, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World | Aug 1, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Caucher Birkar: An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations | Aug 2, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time | Aug 3, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths | Aug 4, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 17 | 2018 Fields Medal Coverage at Quanta Magazine | Aug 6, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Rosaly Lopes on Volcanoes Throughout the Solar System | Aug 28, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets | Oct 11, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development | Oct 15, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing | Oct 24, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite | Nov 13, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity | Nov 14, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches | Nov 27, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity | Dec 5, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 26 | What Is Emergence? | Dec 20, 2018 | 0.0 |
20 episodes • 2019
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think | Jan 10, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics | Jan 22, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 3 | What Is Turbulence? | Jan 28, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies | Feb 4, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System | Feb 11, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 6 | CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise | Feb 27, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs | Mar 21, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments | Apr 23, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 9 | What Is Universality? | May 13, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 10 | What Are Feynman Diagrams? | May 14, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors | May 15, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change | Jun 13, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe | Jun 27, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells | Jul 24, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics | Aug 7, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior | Aug 27, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics | Sep 5, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet | Sep 25, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed | Nov 11, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science | Nov 20, 2019 | 0.0 |
25 episodes • 2020
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math | Jan 22, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research | Feb 3, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa | Mar 3, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections | Mar 12, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs | Mar 25, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions | May 1, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights] | May 7, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End | Jun 22, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 9 | James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems | Jul 1, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras | Jul 9, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond | Jul 20, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 12 | 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen' | Aug 18, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator | Sep 2, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory | Sep 3, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Urban Traffic and Complex Systems | Sep 28, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity | Oct 14, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 17 | The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space | Oct 21, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life | Oct 26, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter | Nov 5, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change | Nov 17, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 21 | How to Shrink Big Data | Dec 7, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question | Dec 14, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 23 | 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics | Dec 23, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 24 | 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science | Dec 24, 2020 | 0.0 |
| 25 | 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology | Dec 25, 2020 | 0.0 |
25 episodes • 2021
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained | Jan 4, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 2 | What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner | Jan 12, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women | Jan 19, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 4 | How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe | Feb 4, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Why COVID-19 Models Are Often Wrong | Feb 12, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 6 | This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math | Feb 18, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien | Mar 18, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond | Apr 1, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Iceland Is Mars, on Earth | Apr 6, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces | Apr 14, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics | Apr 29, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Black Hole Jets: One of the Biggest Mysteries in the Universe | May 20, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics | Jun 8, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 14 | What’s Inside an Exoplanet | Jun 15, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory | Jun 24, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model | Jul 16, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 17 | How to Build Truly Intelligent AI | Aug 4, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 18 | How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome | Sep 8, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Scientific Problem of Consciousness | Sep 30, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds | Oct 13, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 21 | When Biology Meets Computer Science | Nov 2, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 22 | How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe | Dec 3, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 23 | 2021's Breakthroughs in Neuroscience and Other Biology | Dec 21, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 24 | 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics | Dec 22, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 25 | 2021's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science | Dec 23, 2021 | 0.0 |
14 episodes • 2022
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein | Feb 23, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 2 | How Geometry Shapes Our Lives | Mar 7, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Biophysics of a Brainless Animal | Mar 17, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication | Mar 25, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time | Apr 20, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math | May 17, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Finally, a Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole | May 18, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics | Jun 1, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins | Aug 8, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 10 | How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions | Aug 16, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 11 | One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty | Sep 13, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem | Oct 13, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 13 | How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer | Nov 30, 2022 | 0.0 |
| 14 | 2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math | Dec 23, 2022 | 0.0 |
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