The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine’s Charlie Wood returns to discuss the "little red dots," mysterious early-universe objects detected by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Host Samir Patel and guest Greg Barber explore the four-color theorem, tracing its history from Francis Guthrie’s 19th-century conjecture to the 1976 computer-assisted proof by Appel and Haken.

This episode explores how researchers are using reverse mathematics to uncover hidden logical equivalences within computational complexity theory.

Quanta Magazine’s editor-in-chief Samir Patel interviews computer science writer Ben Brubaker to explore the fundamental nature of theoretical computer science.

This episode explores how the brain categorizes the world through a predictive, embodied lens rather than passive sensory matching.