What if time isn’t fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In its place, we find change, entropy, and the deep connection between the universe’s evolution and our own perception of its flow. Featuring Rovelli’sContinue Reading
2025’s most surprising computational revelations included a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and an important milestone in quantum computing. 00:00 FASTER HASH TABLES Hash tables are fundamental ways to store data and are used in every computer. Since the 1970s, researchersContinue Reading
In 2025, physicists spotted a paradigm-shifting new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and discovered that the Earth’s deep interior may be more connected than previously thought, reshaping our picture of the planet’s engine. Watch this year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Mathematics: https://youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng 0:00 – Little Red Dots TheContinue Reading
2025 marked a historic year in mathematics. Researchers solved a major case of Hilbert’s ambitious sixth problem, proved a sweeping new theorem about hyperbolic surfaces, and settled the longstanding three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture. Watch this year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics: https://youtu.be/CPoQkE9KaAY 00:00 – Hilbert’s Sixth Problem Solved In a landmark achievement,Continue Reading
2025’s most surprising breakthroughs in biology included a finding that a father’s environmental exposures can impact the development of their offspring, research confirming that intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals, and a new mathematical model reveals that evolution happens in explosive bursts. 0:04 TWO PATH’S TO INTELLIGENCE A groupContinue Reading
Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz andContinue Reading