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Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

All Episodes about geophysics

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

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A 3D model showing red plumes in the mantle.

A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface

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A mosaic of five microscope images of igneous rocks. The rocks are dappled with blue, pink, orange and multicolor inclusions.

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

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Blue faults of Cerberus Fossae

Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows

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Graphical model of a cubic earth.

Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology

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A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’

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Photo of a diver between two tectonic plates in Silfra. reykjavik. Iceland

Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life

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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start

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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

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How Life and Luck Changed Earth’s Minerals

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