Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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How quantum is life? FQxI's latest $53,000 essay competition invited scientists and the public to debate this question. In this episode Zeeya Merali chats with FQxI's Gabe Fitzpatrick about the winning essays, which were announced in February.

Winners announced: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/winners/17

Competition launch episode on quantum biology and plant intelligence with Catalina Curceanu: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/125/2025.10.03

Gabe interviewed five of the winners: Gabriela Frajtag, Gerard McCaul, Michael Montague, Aswathy Prakash Thekkepurakkal Prakashan and Rishab Ghosh.

And reporter Miriam Frankel asked astrophysicist Bernard Schutz about co-founding the first open access living review journal, Living Reviews in Relativity, dubbed the "Wikipedia of Science" in the 1990s, and about his own research claims that ripples in spacetime helped humans to evolve.

The Wikipedia of Science: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/279/living-reviews-the-wikipedia-of-science