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The Best Episodes of Quanta Magazine

Every episode of Quanta Magazine ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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.
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Best Episodes Summary

"What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?" is the best rated episode of "Quanta Magazine". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/10/2015. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.".

  • What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
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    #1 - What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?

    Season 2015 Episode 1 - Aired 6/10/2015

    David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

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  • Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
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    #2 - Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

    Season 2015 Episode 2 - Aired 6/11/2015

    A 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 nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.

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  • Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
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    #3 - Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

    Season 2015 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2015

    A 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.

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  • Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
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    #4 - Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist

    Season 2015 Episode 4 - Aired 6/15/2015

    A 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.

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  • Where Did the Universe Come From?
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    #5 - Where Did the Universe Come From?

    Season 2015 Episode 5 - Aired 6/16/2015

    Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.

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  • Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
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    #6 - Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises

    Season 2015 Episode 6 - Aired 6/17/2015

    The 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 theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.

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  • Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
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    #7 - Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music

    Season 2015 Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2015

    A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”

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  • Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
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    #8 - Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces

    Season 2015 Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2015

    A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.

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  • Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
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    #9 - Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible

    Season 2015 Episode 9 - Aired 6/24/2015

    A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.

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  • Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
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    #10 - Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?

    Season 2015 Episode 10 - Aired 7/2/2015

    In 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 the ratio?”

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  • Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
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    #11 - Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse

    Season 2015 Episode 11 - Aired 7/9/2015

    University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.

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  • How Did Life Begin on Earth?
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    #12 - How Did Life Begin on Earth?

    Season 2015 Episode 12 - Aired 7/20/2022

    In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

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  • Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
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    #13 - Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies

    Season 2015 Episode 13 - Aired 7/21/2015

    Benjamin 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 light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.

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  • Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
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    #14 - Why Do Flies Walk This Way?

    Season 2015 Episode 14 - Aired 7/22/2015

    In 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-mazes allows researchers to track individual behavior in many flies simultaneously.

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  • How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
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    #15 - How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws

    Season 2015 Episode 15 - Aired 8/17/2015

    In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.

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  • James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
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    #16 - James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter

    Season 2015 Episode 16 - Aired 8/25/2015

    James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.

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  • Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
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    #17 - Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships

    Season 2015 Episode 17 - Aired 9/18/2015

    Nancy 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.

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  • Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
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    #18 - Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics

    Season 2015 Episode 18 - Aired 9/23/2015

    Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.

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  • What Is a Species?
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    #19 - What Is a Species?

    Season 2015 Episode 19 - Aired 9/24/2015

    David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.

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  • Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
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    #20 - Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity

    Season 2015 Episode 20 - Aired 10/23/2015

    Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.

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  • Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
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    #21 - Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps

    Season 2015 Episode 21 - Aired 11/6/2015

    Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.

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  • Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life
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    #22 - Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life

    Season 2015 Episode 22 - Aired 11/20/2015

    Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.

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  • Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?
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    #23 - Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?

    Season 2015 Episode 23 - Aired 12/18/2015

    Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.

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  • Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
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    #24 - Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

    Season 2016 Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2016

    Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."

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  • Are We Alone in the Universe?
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    #25 - Are We Alone in the Universe?

    Season 2016 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2016

    David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.

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