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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moon colonies to ecosystems to parasites and everything else in the Universe!

Does consciousness come from quantum processes in the brain?

54 mins; April 02, 2026

Listener Questions #34

48 mins; March 31, 2026

Introducing: Mostly Human with Laurie Segall

2 mins; March 30, 2026

How cholera kills you and how we kill it

47 mins; March 26, 2026

To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera

58 mins; March 24, 2026

Listener Questions #33

52 mins; March 19, 2026

Do we live in a super bubble?

41 mins; March 17, 2026

Is Cold Fusion impossible?

46 mins; March 12, 2026

Listener Questions #32

53 mins; March 10, 2026

Becoming Martian (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)

56 mins; March 05, 2026

Musk on the Moon

57 mins; March 03, 2026

Listener Questions #31

55 mins; February 26, 2026

Which planet has the most moons?

63 hours 2 mins; February 24, 2026

Why do animals cooperate?

69 hours 41 mins; February 19, 2026

Listener Questions #30

53 mins; February 17, 2026

Why does the Universe minimize action?

56 mins; February 12, 2026

Rabies

56 mins; February 10, 2026

Bonus Episode: History Daily - The First Reported Case of the Spanish Flu

18 mins; February 07, 2026

Listener Questions #29

51 mins; February 05, 2026

Can cosmic rays corrupt computers?

51 mins; February 03, 2026

What is interspecific brood parasitism?

51 mins; January 29, 2026

Listener Questions #28

43 mins; January 27, 2026

How fast are we moving?

52 mins; January 22, 2026

Can quantum measurements change the past?

53 mins; January 20, 2026

Listener Questions #27

49 mins; January 15, 2026

What can we learn by smashing muons together?

52 mins; January 13, 2026

Zombie fish

54 mins; January 08, 2026

The several styles of singularities

54 mins; January 06, 2026

Listener Questions #26

46 mins; January 01, 2026

Perimenopause

60 hours 27 mins; December 30, 2025

What's the densest thing in the Universe that's not a black hole?

47 mins; December 25, 2025

Listener Questions #25

52 mins; December 23, 2025

How many rogue planets and stars are there?

48 mins; December 18, 2025

How bad are microplastics?

59 mins; December 16, 2025

Listener Questions #24

48 mins; December 11, 2025

How do we predict the weather?

60 hours 24 mins; December 09, 2025

How do we control mosquito populations?

66 hours 38 mins; December 04, 2025

Listener Questions #23

55 mins; December 02, 2025

The physics of shadows

51 mins; November 27, 2025

Introducing : Inner Cosmos with Host David Eagleman and Guest Daniel Whiteson

63 hours 22 mins; November 26, 2025

How long have we been human? (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)

63 hours 32 mins; November 25, 2025

Listener Questions #22

51 mins; November 20, 2025

Can we engineer the sun?

49 mins; November 18, 2025

How to make sense of quantum entanglement

54 mins; November 13, 2025

How do parasites evade our immune system? (featuring Dr. John Hawdon)

47 mins; November 11, 2025

Listener Questions #21 featuring Cat Bohannan

55 mins; November 06, 2025

Do Aliens Speak Physics, with Andy Warner

65 hours 56 mins; November 04, 2025

How was the polio vaccine developed?

60 hours 10 mins; October 30, 2025

Listener Questions #20

53 mins; October 28, 2025

Is physics discovered or invented?

55 mins; October 23, 2025

Listener Questions #19

44 mins; October 21, 2025

Must there be a single unified theory of physics?

54 mins; October 16, 2025

How might aliens perceive the Universe?

51 mins; October 14, 2025

Why do we age? (featuring Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan)

67 hours 53 mins; October 09, 2025

Relativistic beaming

48 mins; October 07, 2025

Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?

63 hours 10 mins; October 02, 2025

Listener Questions #18

50 mins; September 30, 2025

What came before the Big Bang?

73 hours 2 mins; September 25, 2025

The Mysteries of Magnetism

48 mins; September 23, 2025

Does physics have to be causal and local?

71 hours 21 mins; September 18, 2025

Zombie ants

51 mins; September 16, 2025

How does scientific peer review work?

56 mins; September 11, 2025

How are scientific discoveries made?

75 hours 56 mins; September 09, 2025

How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam Becker)

61 hours 10 mins; September 04, 2025

Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life?

48 mins; September 02, 2025

Phage therapy (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)

62 hours 54 mins; August 28, 2025

Listener Questions #17

57 mins; August 26, 2025

Why do we sleep and dream? (featuring Dr. Gina Poe)

60 hours 3 mins; August 21, 2025

What are paraparticles?

47 mins; August 19, 2025

Xenotransplantation

50 mins; August 14, 2025

Unraveling misleading popular science

51 mins; August 12, 2025

Listener Questions #16

39 mins; August 07, 2025

What is toponium?

48 mins; August 05, 2025

Killing the Speckled Monster: How We Eradicated Smallpox

56 mins; July 31, 2025

Listener Questions #15

51 mins; July 29, 2025

Can particle beams be used to treat cancer?

49 mins; July 24, 2025

Could stars have black holes at their cores?

47 mins; July 22, 2025

Going under: The history and mechanisms of general anesthesia

51 mins; July 17, 2025

Listener Questions #14

44 mins; July 15, 2025

How to become a parasite

50 mins; July 10, 2025

Should we be worried about overpopulation or depopulation?

62 hours 17 mins; July 08, 2025

Listener Questions #13

48 mins; July 03, 2025

How do we know what elements the Universe is made of?

45 mins; July 01, 2025

Why are stars different colors?

43 mins; June 26, 2025

Did Colossal bring back the dire wolf?

52 mins; June 24, 2025

Listener Questions #12

51 mins; June 19, 2025

What is the quantum internet?

46 mins; June 17, 2025

Can humans survive interstellar travel?

51 mins; June 12, 2025

Is it possible to travel to other stars?

56 mins; June 10, 2025

When will space be cheap? (featuring Zach Weinersmith)

55 mins; June 05, 2025

The Martian Revolution (featuring Mike Duncan)

55 mins; June 03, 2025

Listener Questions #11

43 mins; May 29, 2025

How and why do trees get so old?

49 mins; May 27, 2025

Is the standard model of dark energy in trouble?

48 mins; May 21, 2025

Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson)

70 hours 5 mins; May 19, 2025

Introducing: Kill Switch

2 mins; May 15, 2025

Listener Questions #10

49 mins; May 15, 2025

Why is mercury liquid at room temperature?

51 mins; May 13, 2025

How did intelligence arise?

60 hours 19 mins; May 08, 2025

Can we see what's inside the electron?

54 mins; May 06, 2025

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