Welcome to Quantum Magazine's podcast.

Each episode we bring you stories about developments in science and mathematics.

I'm Susan Vallett.

Imagine a computer even faster than today's latest supercomputers.

You don't have to imagine anymore.

Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers.

And it's bringing physics and computer science closer together.

That's next.

Imagine you're in a lab where you've synthesized ancient DNA sequences

and spliced them into modern bacteria just to see how they'd react.

They needed each other, but they didn't want each other.

So, you know, it was like a very complicated relationship unfolding in front of me.

This isn't Jurassic Park or some sci-fi movie.

I'm Steve Strogetz, and this is The Joy of Why.

A new podcast from Quantum Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered mysteries

in science and math today.

Join me on The Joy of Why as we explore these questions.

We may not have all the answers yet,

but I'm pretty sure the curiosity to figure them out is in our DNA.

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New episodes drop every other Thursday.

For Volusitius, drop every other Thursday. For Valeria Saggio to boot up the computer in her former Vienna lab, she needed a special

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