Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Nathan Lents about sex, gender, monogamy, and other topics from his recent book, The Sexual Evolution.

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about fundamental particles, radiation-gobbling fungi, and the physics of pinball.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Steven Munger about phantom smells, stinky shirts, careers as a "nose", and more. 

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Daniel and Kelly look for ways that mysteries of antimatter could shed light on the mysteries of dark matter

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Daniel and Kelly talk about whether the Universe ever put a ring on the Earth

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about chain reactions in space, the chemistry of life, and how a theory is accepted.

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Daniel and Kelly break down what it means for particles to have charge, and how that translates to charges for the weak force

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Daniel and Kelly dive into the left-right asymmetry of hands, life, particles and the Universe itself.

(This version was edited to reflect that 2d space has handedness and methane is non-chiral.)

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what we're doing to combat soil-transmitted nematodes, which are parasite that infects up to 25% of the world's population. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how public health officials turned "the most serious parasitic disease in New England" into a disease that only afflicts about 15 people per year in the whole of the United States. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the extraordinary ability to tardigrades to survive extreme conditions, and ponder whether those abilities have kept them alive after a space craft carrying them crashed into the surface of the Moon. 

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about binary star seasons, meat wasps and freefall.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Jonathan Oppenheim about his unusual theory of unpredictable gravity

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Thomas Van Riet about how string theory unravels the puzzle of quantum gravity and whether math can be beautiful.

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Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about soil on Mars, the double slit experiment, and adaptations for surviving on the Red Planet. 

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Can humans safely have babies in space? Daniel and Kelly talk about what we know about human health in space, and our prospects for starting families there. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk to authors about the science and storytelling of time-travel.

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Daniel and Katie answer a question about building super duper long structures in space

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Jonathan McDowell about the kinds of junk you find in space, the problems it causes, and what we can do about it. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Kathy Joseph about the true, twisted history of humanity's understanding of electromagnetism

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how santa takes solves an NP-hard problem, how reindeer fly and glow, and the physics of lamps that defy time.

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions from curious listeners, about big black holes, nuking hurricanes and the philosophy of photons.

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Mary Roach about her latest book (Fuzz), and how she goes about getting the incredible stories that appear in her books.

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Daniel and Kelly dig into the surprisingly controversial question of why airplanes stay in the air.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Daniel Abrahams and Ty Franck, the authors behind The Expanse series.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the surprisingly difficult task of finding the fuel to make fusion work on Earth

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Martin Elvis about the promise and perils of space resources.

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Daniel and Kelly give our US-based listeners some things to gobble about over Thanksgiving dinner other than politics.

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Daniel and Kelly answer questons about dark energy, slime molds and Hawking radiation!

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Volker Rudolf about cannibalism. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about difficulties encountered during polar expeditions, and how we can avoid making these same mistakes when we begin exploring Mars. 

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Scott Aaronson about quantum computing, and try to bust through the most common misconceptions. 

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Daniel and Kelly try to get an solid mental picture of this particularly slippery concept

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Erika Nesvold about ethical questions we should be asking as we prepare to become a multiplanetary species. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the future of food in space. Do you like lukewarm cricket tacos? 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about Toxoplasma gondii, and the "science" of ghost hunting.

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Daniel and Kelly discuss the often less-than-delicious history of food in space. 

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Daniel and Kelly take some time to puzzle of the nature of time, an eternally timely mystery.

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Daniel and Kelly wrestle with the the fabric of the Universe itself. What is it, what can it do and why do we have it?

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Phil Plait about some of the ways space could wipe us all out, or at least really mess up our infrastructure. 

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Daniel and Kelly discuss the Rare Earth Hypothesis, that argues that Earth-like life is vanishingly rare.

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Daniel and Kelly cover some of the many reasons why it's tough to work on the Moon. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about why we listen to the skies, the amazing WOW signal and a recent theory for what it means.

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Check out the new show, Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe every Tuesday and Thursday!

DKEU is produced by iHeartRadio. 

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Explain the Universe says farewell and invites you to join Daniel and Kelly in their new podcast, "Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe": www.danielandkelly.org

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Daniel and Katie answer a question about what it would look like to warp through space with the Enterprise

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Daniel and Kelly answer a question about whether space can be infinite and finite

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Does the Universe go on forever, or have an end? What shape is it?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about moving planets, the Higgs field, and the future of particle physics.

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What could have caused the Big Bang, and what came before it?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether our galaxy is in the middle of a giant void that could have fooled us into thinking the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

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How long can we enjoy the sunshine before we need a new star?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about galaxy collisions, black holes and Nitrogen!

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Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces?

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Daniel and Jorge try to clarify the distinction between our neighborhood space objects and what it means if we find them out of place.

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If you repeat the same experiment, do you get the same outcome?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about new ways to find dark matter, using space microwave ovens.

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What is light made of? A particle, a wave, both, neither? Little puppies?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about banana decays and black hole velocities.

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Daniel and Jorge look right into the beam of incredible astronomical explosions.

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Daniel and Jorge slice time down to its shortest slivers to understand how fast things can happen in the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk to a screenwriter and scientific advisor for the multi-verse show, "Dark Matter"

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Sara Imari Walker, author of "Life as No One Knows it" about what life is and what aliens might look like.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the edges of our colorful experience of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss whether physicists think about the world differently, and how that makes them more or less useful.

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Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands.

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Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter!

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Daniel and Kelly talk about whether planes could be powered by nuclear reactors and whether that would be a bad idea, or a very bad idea.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of "The Man From the Future" about the life and impact of John von Neumann

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Daniel and Katie reveal the shocking truth about the balance between positive and negative particles.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge explore the challenges of detecting light from outside the Milky Way, and the secrets it might reveal.

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Daniel and Kelly review the most cataclysmic impacts in our planet's history.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Kelly explore how biological systems rely on the quantum nature of matter.

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Daniel and Katie bushwack their way between theories of gravity and electromagnetism, looking for the elusive connection.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge explore the enduring mystery of how much heavy metal sits in our Sun.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about aliens, answer a question from a high school class, and advise a listener about destroying the moon.

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Daniel talks to Rabbi Jack Schlacter, a physicist at Los Alamos, about the movie Oppenheimer and the connections and conflicts between physics and judaism.

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Daniel talks to Harry Cliff, author of the new book "Space Oddities", about the most intriguing unexplained particle physics experiments and what they might mean. 

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.

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Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2)

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Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1)

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm.

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Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice.

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Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things.

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Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide.

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Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe. 

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Daniel talks to Prof. Sabine Stanley about what's happening inside planets, and how that helps us understand what's out there.

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Daniel and Jorge push and pull on the simple picture of particles exchanging other particles

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Daniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how tidal forces shape the Earth itself and the life on it.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about creative ways to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. 

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Daniel and Jorge get the chills when they discover how little we know about water.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about reviving old theories, building tall mountains, and passing time.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the moon is positive, negative or neutral!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether two planets could share an orbit around a star, or whether there would be too much gravitational squabbling.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird, wacky shapes of galaxies and the cosmic story they tell.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether there are two or one kind of mass and the massive consequences.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale.

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Daniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about alien arrival, as depicted on the show "Invasion" and Daniel talks to two of the writers, Tatiana Suarez Pico and Aditi Brennan Kapil about writing science fiction.

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Daniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology.

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics

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Daniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything.

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Daniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars.

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Daniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.

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Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses.

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Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons.

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Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk.

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Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe.

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Daniel and Katie warp their minds around the question of what gravitational information really is and what we know about a black hole.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send in your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from young people about the Universe, to mark Jorge's new book!

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Daniel and Jorge dust off their knowledge of the tiny-but-mighty grains of space dust which help form our world and block our view of the cosmos.

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To mark the 500th episode, Daniel gives a tour of the podcast's history and production process, including candid interviews with the co-hosts, Sean Carroll and other podcasters.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what it would take to live away from Earth, and whether a small planet could host humanity.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the weird consequences and hard questions of special relativity!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Higgs mass is such an important number and how physicists weigh such a fleeting particle.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge explain how simulation lets scientists answer new kinds of questions about the Universe.

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Daniel and Katie talk about what physicists expected when they turned on a new kind of ear for listening to the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what it means for space to be curved, how we measure it and why the answer is a puzzle.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to the author of "Meru" about a future which blurs the line between humans and machines.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what is revealed if you empty space of all possible particles.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Tayio Fujii, author of "Orbital Cloud" 

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Daniel and Jorge turn their eyes to the center of the galactic action and give us a sense for where we are.

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Daniel and Katie get their heads spinning as they spiral into the center of spinning black holes

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a particle with a pure magnetic charge and how to look for it using a cubic kilometer of ice.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysterious mass of the neutrino and how we can measure it.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how to keep solar panels bright and powerful when they far away on a dusty planet.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the gooey physics of honey, gravity, asphalt and ketchup!

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Zach Weinersmith about the most common misconceptions about our Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether we can expect the Earth to continue in its path forever, or if our days are numbered.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when you start to move fast, and whether it makes sense to think about your mass growing.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how a planets gets its natural satellites and the stories that each one reveals.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether galaxies have to have black holes at their hearts.

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Daniel and Jorge break down the recent discovery of huge gravitational waves by NANOGrav, and what it means about supermassive black holes.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the deep, violent history of the Earth's surface.

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Daniel and Katie touch on the explosive question of nuclear weapons and explain the impact of space-based explosions.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about the dangers of our Universe and whether engineers could save us. 

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Daniel talks to philosopher Thomas Barrett about whether there could be multiple effective descriptions of our Universe 

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Daniel and Jorge try to see through the mysteries of transparency.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the super names for some of the most incredible events in astronomy.

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Daniel and Katie talk about the amazing physics, chemistry and biology that determines how we see the Sun.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe would make sense without antimatter.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how clever experiments might provide a breakthrough in the effort to understand the quantum nature of space-time.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how the gravitational dance of the Earth and Moon, and other objects in and out of our Solar System.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how to use different cosmic rulers to measure the expansion of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Submit your question to [email protected] 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep future fate of our cosmic neighborhood.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether its possible to crack open a black hole by overcharging it.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what the night sky would look like if you travelled back to the time of the dinosaurs.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the question of the nature of space itself, and whether it might flow and bubble. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the delicate process of star formation and how black holes may be able to contribute.

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Daniel and Katie talk about things in the sky that pulse, and a recent discovery of a puzzling set of pulses.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the sticky subject of the strong force and one of its still unverified predictions

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the number that controls the strength of gravity and why it's so hard to measure.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected] 

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Daniel and Jorge explore the Pauli exclusion principle: why some particles avoid each other and how it affects the nature of our Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how the smaller galaxies might hold the secrets to understanding the structure of the Universe and the truth about dark matter.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss the 'Red Dwarf Paradox' and what it would be like to live under a cooler, redder star.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how cosmic rays and carbon decay let us put dates on ancient deaths!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why its so expensive to build a super collider and how plasma technology might make it all better, faster, cheaper. 

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Daniel and Katie explore the puzzle of the "world's first computer", and what it might have calculated.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about quantum mechanics, the end of the Universe, and the multiverse. 

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Daniel and Jorge explore how the Higgs field shapes our Universe and what it would be like to live without it.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether we have the technology to spot a nuclear war on other planets.

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Daniel and Jorge wonder about why particles have charge, and whether particles could exist with tiny electrical charge.

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Daniel and Jorge bend their minds (and yours) around the curvy topic of bent space.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how our great space eyeballs know where they are looking and how they turn.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about 3-armed galaxies, the color of the Universe and its phases.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss a brand new result that suggests that black holes might be driving the unexplained expansion of the Universe

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether gravitational waves cause permanent distortions of space.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the daring and dangerous mission of the Parker Solar Probe and what it might reveal about the Sun.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the holes in the current theory of the Universe.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about a novel where aliens give humans advice about climate change. 

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After a historic 355 days in orbit, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on March 30, 2022, breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by an American. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Vande Hei discuss conducting experiments in space, the impact of extended spaceflight on humans, and the spiciness of space chili peppers.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how close photons and protons can get to the speed of light, and what's stopping them!

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Write to us at [email protected] 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a speculative theory called "rainbow gravity" which might help us understand the origins of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how stars fuse lighter elements and what changes when they reach Iron.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how the Universe's preference for left-handed particles may have shaped our chemistry.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how to explain one of the weirdest stars in the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of the alt-history science fiction show "For All Mankind".

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether anti-matter falls down, or up!

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Daniel and Jorge dissect research articles claiming sudden progress in warp technology

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Daniel talks with Dr. Katie Robertson about whether there even is a single unified theory of physics for us to discover.

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Daniel and Jorge absorb listener questions, reflect on the answers and emit some silly jokes

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Daniel and Jorge discuss the Kardashev Scale, Kardashians, Cryptocurrencies and crpytozoology.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the mystery of inertia and whether a controversial theory can explain it.

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Daniel and Jorge debate whether the Higgs boson discovery marks the end of collider physics.

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Bonus episode: Daniel and Jorge visit the metaverse to discuss what happens when particles, stars, galaxies or superclusters collide!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of "Umbrella Academy", "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Dark".

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what would happen if dark energy increased and tore the Universe apart.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether a new idea for dark matter might overcome some discrepancies in galaxy behavior.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the dark massive objects we've observed could be something stringier and stranger than black holes.

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Daniel and Katie talk about whether a future impact is predictable or random. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes can be blocked or can block other objects.

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Daniel and Jorge wonder about which planets would float if you dunked them in a cosmic tub.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what you might breathe if you opened your space-helmet on the surface of the Moon. 

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with Bell's experiment and the philosophical consequences.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what nothing looks like, whether Thor's hammer would destroy the Earth and rogue stars.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a new stealthy kind of neutrino that might neaten up the mess left by all of the other neutrinos.

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Daniel talks to mathematician Steve Strogatz about why calculus seems to describe the Universe so well.

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Daniel and Jorge blow their own minds talking about the faster-than-light expansion of the Universe 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about ingenious quantum tricks to send information without actual particles.

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Daniel and Katie talk about planetary rings and what they tell us about the history of the solar system.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the quest to build a crystal out of only electrons.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how elements were made in the early Universe, what processes are making more of them today, and why some elements are more common than others.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]

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Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options.

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Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object.

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Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.

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Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" 

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Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.

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Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!

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Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.

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Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. 

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Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler! 

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Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars.

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Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the surprises found in the first science from the James Webb telescope and what it means for our understanding of the early Universe. 

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Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light. 

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens.

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Daniel and Jorge grapple with the possibility that time could flow in more than one direction, at the same time(s).

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Daniel and Katie talk about how one of the basic building blocks of matter is surprisingly impermanent and mysterious. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when one superstar of physics slams into another.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the lengths people will go to avoid accepting the randomness of quantum mechanics. 

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Daniel and Jorge break down the differences between the two-way and one-way speed of light.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes have a temperature and if we can ever know! 

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected] 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe got an extra boost of expansion early on, and if it's cartoonists' fault. 

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Daniel and Katie talk about where the missing matter in the Universe might be, and how slime molds might help us find it. 

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Daniel and Jorge walk through the first images from our fancy new space telescope! 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Universe seems to follow rules, and celebrate the birthday of the woman who revealed the this deep truth.

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Daniel and Jorge break down the science of using huge lasers to zap frozen pellets of hydrogen. Or ice cream. Or cartoonists. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysteries of why galaxies stop making stars.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the hottest state of matter ever created, and make up silly names for it.

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Daniel and Jorge blow your mind with the physics and chemistry of how fireworks sparkle and entertain.

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Daniel and Jorge take you step by step through the process of black hole mergers .

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Daniel and Jorge bump brains and talk about whether beams of light interact or pass through each other. 

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about anti-muons, Daniel's research, and dimensional weapons.

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Daniel and Jorge tackle some of one of the simplest but trickiest concepts in physics.

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Daniel talks to Sam Kimpton-Nye about whether aliens do science the same way we do.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how we use our smarts to survive the changing conditions in the far future solar system.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the plans for a new set of Great Observatories in space, and what it might show us about the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how much dark chocolate can fit in Universes of various shapes and sizes. 

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Daniel and Katie drink deeply of the mystery of the Earth's formation and contents and talk about whether Earth's water might be hiding deep within the planet.

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Daniel and Jorge answer listener questions about gravity, the CMB and distant disappearing objects! 

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We often think of technology as stuff that keeps us sitting at home, wired to our phones or computers or game systems. But there's an entire world of technology designed to inspire you to get outside and go exploring. We look at how tech can play a part in getting back to nature.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the recent picture of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe can spin, and whether it is.

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Daniel and Jorge grapple with this particularly tricky and philosophical question.

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