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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!

Do protons live forever?

44 mins; August 12, 2020

Special 200th episode!

47 mins; August 10, 2020

Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?

43 mins; August 05, 2020

How did supermassive black holes get so big?

46 mins; August 03, 2020

The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment

42 mins; July 29, 2020

Is dark matter hot?

41 mins; July 27, 2020

How was the Higgs boson discovered?

49 mins; July 22, 2020

What are quasi-particles

41 mins; July 20, 2020

Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?

46 mins; July 15, 2020

Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.

42 mins; July 13, 2020

Does the Universe need dark matter?

48 mins; July 08, 2020

Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?

45 mins; July 06, 2020

Do black holes destroy information?

52 mins; July 01, 2020

What is the axion?

48 mins; June 29, 2020

The SF Universe of Alastair Reynolds "Revenger"

60 hours 12 mins; June 24, 2020

What are primordial black holes?

49 mins; June 23, 2020

Is the impossible drive possible?

45 mins; June 17, 2020

The long race for the top quark

52 mins; June 15, 2020

Where in the solar system might we find life? (ft. Katie Goldin of Creature Features)

56 mins; June 10, 2020

How do you navigate in deep space?

46 mins; June 08, 2020

Can stars eat other stars?

41 mins; June 03, 2020

Why are neutrinos so light?

43 mins; June 01, 2020

Can we see the surface of exoplanets?

41 mins; May 27, 2020

What is the real charge of the electron?

39 mins; May 25, 2020

Could Jupiter turn into a star?

37 mins; May 20, 2020

What are the basic constants of the Universe?

42 mins; May 18, 2020

Listener Question 10: Particles, stars and universe-sized black holes!

43 mins; May 13, 2020

Can Dark Matter feel itself

44 mins; May 11, 2020

How do LEDs work?

44 mins; May 06, 2020

Should we believe any alien abduction stories?

53 mins; May 04, 2020

Does Stephen Wolfram's Theory of Everything Work?

44 mins; April 29, 2020

The SF Universe of Sue Burke's "Semiosis"

48 mins; April 27, 2020

Can planets lose their atmospheres?

38 mins; April 22, 2020

What is the Cosmological Constant?

42 mins; April 20, 2020

How quarks were discovered?

43 mins; April 15, 2020

What is the tallest mountain in the solar system?

37 mins; April 13, 2020

The SF Universe of Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Calculating Stars"

58 mins; April 08, 2020

Could dark matter be made of quarks?

44 mins; April 06, 2020

The SF Universe of Becky Chamber's "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet"

55 mins; April 01, 2020

Listener Questions 9

39 mins; March 30, 2020

What are virtual particles?

39 mins; March 26, 2020

The SF Universe of Blake Crouch's "Recursion"

40 mins; March 23, 2020

How small is an electron?

46 mins; March 18, 2020

Why is strange matter so strange?

39 mins; March 16, 2020

The science fiction universe of "Ancillary Justice"

41 mins; March 11, 2020

What is the biggest explosion in the universe

41 mins; March 09, 2020

Is it possible to move the sun?

42 mins; March 04, 2020

Is the Universe infinite?

46 mins; March 02, 2020

What have we learned from the Spitzer Space Telescope?

42 mins; February 26, 2020

Choose your own physics adventure!

40 mins; February 24, 2020

Can quantum gravity save physics?

48 mins; February 19, 2020

Listener Questions 8: Can AI understand humor?

45 mins; February 17, 2020

What causes the biggest explosions in the universe?

43 mins; February 12, 2020

Are there planets without a star?

41 mins; February 10, 2020

Can you slow down light?

42 mins; February 05, 2020

What is the great attractor?

42 mins; February 03, 2020

Can particles travel faster than light?

39 mins; January 29, 2020

4 ways physics could end the world

49 mins; January 27, 2020

Is Betelgeuse about to explode?

45 mins; January 22, 2020

Why can quarks never be alone?

46 mins; January 20, 2020

Is space filled with junk?

42 mins; January 15, 2020

Why is the universe inflating?

51 mins; January 13, 2020

What will the new space telescope reveal?

43 mins; January 08, 2020

Why do some particles die?

45 mins; January 06, 2020

Is the universe left-handed?

43 mins; January 01, 2020

Can you destroy a black hole?

49 mins; December 30, 2019

How does relativity affect our perception of time?

43 mins; December 25, 2019

How was antimatter discovered?

44 mins; December 23, 2019

What are cosmic strings?

44 mins; December 18, 2019

What is quantum spacetime foam?

40 mins; December 16, 2019

What are magnetic monopoles?

41 mins; December 11, 2019

How fast is the universe blowing up?

46 mins; December 09, 2019

Is there a fifth force of the universe?

42 mins; December 04, 2019

Listener Questions 7

45 mins; December 02, 2019

The mystery of the missing neutrinos

44 mins; November 27, 2019

Where is the coldest place in the Universe?

39 mins; November 25, 2019

Is our solar system weird?

41 mins; November 20, 2019

Who ordered the muon?

41 mins; November 18, 2019

Can science predict what you will do?

47 mins; November 13, 2019

Is it possible to send messages faster than light using quantum entanglement?

42 mins; November 11, 2019

Is there weather in space?

37 mins; November 06, 2019

News from the Solar System

40 mins; November 04, 2019

Journey to the Beginning of Time (featuring Dan Hooper)

51 mins; October 30, 2019

What's in the asteroid belt?

29 mins; October 28, 2019

Does Quantum Mechanics make sense?

41 mins; October 23, 2019

Can we build a warp drive?

36 mins; October 21, 2019

How do we know the photon is real?

29 mins; October 16, 2019

Can you imagine a color you've never seen?

37 mins; October 14, 2019

What is the cosmic microwave background?

50 mins; October 09, 2019

Listener Questions 6

30 mins; October 07, 2019

What are fermi bubbles?

35 mins; October 02, 2019

How many stars can you see in the night sky with the naked eye?

27 mins; September 30, 2019

What are fast radio bursts and what causes them?

37 mins; September 25, 2019

The shocking mystery of lightning explained

36 mins; September 23, 2019

Will the Higgs-Boson destroy the universe?

35 mins; September 18, 2019

How to see pictures of dinosaurs (featuring XKCD creator Randall Munroe)

41 mins; September 16, 2019

What is the physics behind skipping stones?

33 mins; September 11, 2019

How do microwaves work?

35 mins; September 10, 2019

What are Tardigrades?

35 mins; September 04, 2019

What was the first particle ever discovered? And how was it discovered?

35 mins; September 02, 2019

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