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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 8 hours 15 minutes
The Beasts That Keep the Beat
New insights from neuroscience - aided by a small zoo's worth of dancing animals - are revealing the biological origins of rhythm. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
A Life in Games
John Horton Conway claims to have never worked a day in his life. This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a long-standing assumption about how they behave. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
A satellite spotted a burst of light just as gravitational waves rolled in from the collision of two black holes. Was the flash a cosmic coincidence, or do astrophysicists need to rethink what black holes can do? Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
In a virtuoso experiment, physicists have revealed details of a "quantum critical point" that underlies high-temperature superconductivity. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
How to Build Life in a Pre-Darwinian World
Perhaps chemistry played a more instrumental role in the origin of life than scientists thought. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
This week on the podcast, ripples in space-time have been detected a century after Einstein predicted them, launching a new era in astronomy. Then, in our second segment, researchers think they can avoid some knotty paradoxes at the edge of physics by replacing black holes with fuzzballs.
Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide which telltale biosignature gases to target. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
The same brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time. The research suggests that our thoughts may take place on a mental space-time canvas. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links - not space-time - constitute the fundamental structure of the universe. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.