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Introducing The Quanta Podcast

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Introducing The Quanta Podcast

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself and much more, The Quanta Podcast will be a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. 

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FLUID DYNAMICS

 

New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Math of Turbulence

By JOSEPH HOWLETT

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales.

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SYMMETRY

 

How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image

By ZACK SAVITSKY

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of "chiral" objects that differ from their reflected forms.

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ALGORITHMS

 

The Fastest Way Yet to Color Graphs

By STEVE NADIS

Researchers have devised a scheme for painting the edges of a graph that's almost as speedy as possible.

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VIDEO

 

How to 'See' the 4th Dimension with Topology

By CHRISTOPHER W. YOUNG

Mathematician Maggie Miller studies shapes, or manifolds, that resemble flat Euclidean space when viewed up close.

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