2025-11-29
39 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.
On the show this week,
the evolution of sperm and the finding that sperm actually originated before animal life
as we know it.
Could say that we are all sperm that have evolved an extra life stage.
where we have a multicellular body.
You could say that.
Probably no one else will ever say that.
We're also revealing that the brain ages in five distinct stages.
Nice.
This was a really intriguing study,
especially because it suggests that adolescents may actually extend into our early 30s,
which could explain why some days I do feel like a teenager.
We're also reporting from the National Emergency Briefing in London I've just come from that's set up to alert people to the escalating threats to society and to the world.