2026-09-09 · Behind the news
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
by Konstantin Kakaes
If ten thousand machines finish a math problem that humans started, whose discovery is it?
0:00 / 12:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-09-03 · Future-gazing
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
by Rebecca Boyle
If a machine can answer any question, what happens to the conversations that start with not knowing?
0:00 / 11:59 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-08-29 · For the curious
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
by Ben Brubaker
If a computer scientist never touches a physical machine, what exactly are they studying?
0:00 / 14:36 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-08-25 · For the curious
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
by Conor Feehly
Does the brain see the world as it is, or as the body needs it to be?
0:00 / 16:20 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-08-21 · Future-gazing
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
by Ingrid Wickelgren
0:00 / 19:45 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-19 · For the curious
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
by Natalie Wolchover
How can something be mathematically true if no set of rules can ever prove it?
0:00 / 17:49 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-08-14 · For the curious
Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
by James Dinneen
0:00 / 20:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-14 · For the curious
Why Are Rivers so Mathematical?
by Natalie Wolchover
If water just flows blindly downhill, why do all rivers follow the exact same math?
0:00 / 13:30 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-08-11 · Behind the news
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
by Steve Nadis
Could the invisible matter holding galaxies together be tied to the energy pushing the universe apart?
0:00 / 11:31 · Narrator Algieba
2026-08-05 · Behind the news
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
by Carrie Arnold
Where do you look for the very first cell that learned to turn sunlight into sugar?
0:00 / 16:32 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-31 · For the curious
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
by Natalie Wolchover
How much of the world do you have to shut out to live inside a math problem?
0:00 / 24:15 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-26 · Future-gazing
The Dirt That Refused to Die
by Siddhant Pusdekar
If dead dirt keeps breathing, does the chemistry of life actually belong to living things?
0:00 / 11:54 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-18 · For the curious
Why Am I Left-Handed?
by Natalie Wolchover
If most animals don't favor one side, why are nine out of ten people right-handed?
0:00 / 15:39 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-07-16 · Future-gazing
Thermodynamic Computers Go with the (Energy) Flow
by Philip Ball
Could the random jiggle of atoms be used to solve problems instead of causing errors?
0:00 / 15:34 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-13 · Behind the news
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
by Rohini Subrahmanyam
Can a thick, gooey liquid be stretched until it snaps like a piece of glass?
0:00 / 9:29 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-07-08 · Behind the news
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
by Jay Bennett
If the oldest galaxies in the sky are behaving impossibly, how do you begin to redraw the universe?
0:00 / 15:11 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-06-25 · For the curious
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
by Simon Frantz
0:00 / 13:50 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-22 · Future-gazing
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
by Kevin Hartnett
What happens to the solitary act of discovery when a computer allows a thousand people to work together?
0:00 / 29:45 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-06-18 · Behind the news
Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
by Claire L. Evans
0:00 / 43:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-18 · For the curious
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
by Natalie Wolchover
Why is the number of fundamental particles in the universe a question of scale rather than a fact?
0:00 / 14:37 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-06-10 · Behind the news
Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required
by Kevin Hartnett
If a chemical puzzle, once a quantum target, is solved classically, what does that reveal?
0:00 / 14:19 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-01 · For the curious
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive
by Evan Howell
What makes the ocean's slow lava conveyor belt suddenly build islands?
0:00 / 14:23 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-05-24 · For the curious
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up
by Konstantin Kakaes
What happens to the shape of mathematics when you decide to rebuild its foundation from dust?
0:00 / 28:52 · Narrator female