2025-11-15
45 分钟I'm Sameer Patel, Editor-in-Chief at Quanta Magazine.
Our mission at Quanta is to cover what we call basic or fundamental research in science and math.
That means the kind of work that's driven by curiosity and discovery and the search for knowledge.
We're interested in how and why everything around us works the way that it does.
On our brand new show, The Quanta Podcast, you'll meet the writers and editors behind the magazine,
and together we'll explore the biggest ideas and the tiniest details.
Join me for the quantum podcast, your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and math.
In what has been described as a bombshell finding,
this week we hear about the second genome sequence made for Denisovan.
Denisovans are those enigmatic early human relatives of ours.
We're going to find out what the new genome tells us about our relationship to them and the interbreeding that went on between us and them.
It's obvious that it's all so much more complicated.
They're kind of exciting.
Yeah.
Yes.
Also on the show this week,
Formula E electric cars are on the verge of outperforming Formula One petrol cars.
Formula E is saying that the next car, the generation five,
will probably be as fast or faster than Formula One.
But it depends how long the race is.