Air date: 2016-01-29

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Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."

Air date: 2016-02-04

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

Air date: 2016-03-04

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Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.

Air date: 2016-03-17

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David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.

Air date: 2016-04-14

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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.

Air date: 2016-05-04

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David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.

Air date: 2016-05-05

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Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.

Air date: 2016-05-06

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Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.

Air date: 2016-05-23

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Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.

Air date: 2016-06-10

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Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.

Air date: 2016-06-30

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David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.

Air date: 2016-08-04

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Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.

Air date: 2016-09-01

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Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.

Air date: 2016-09-22

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Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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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.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.

Air date: 2016-10-11

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What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.

Air date: 2016-10-18

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A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

Air date: 2016-10-26

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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.

Air date: 2016-11-03

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Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.

Air date: 2016-11-23

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Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.

Air date: 2016-11-29

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Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.

Air date: 2016-12-08

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Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.

Air date: 2016-12-20

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Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.