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ICYMI: Birds' Migratory Mitochondria - The Quanta Podcast

ICYMI: Birds' Migratory Mitochondria - The Quanta Podcast

Update: 2025-12-30
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(This episode was first published in June 2025.)

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats.

This is the fifth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.

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ICYMI: Birds' Migratory Mitochondria - The Quanta Podcast

ICYMI: Birds' Migratory Mitochondria - The Quanta Podcast