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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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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!

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Oct 29, 2026

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Episodes

What are the most common elements in the Universe? 27.10.2022

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball 25.10.2022

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How dangerous is nuclear waste? 20.10.2022

Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's up with Iapetus? 18.10.2022

Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can you communicate with neutrinos? 13.10.2022

Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Science of "The Spare Man" 11.10.2022

Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man"  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's it like to be an alien? 06.10.2022

Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles! 04.10.2022

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why does physics even work? 29.09.2022

Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is negative temperature? 27.09.2022

Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is math the language of the Universe? 22.09.2022

Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What are quantum glasses? 20.09.2022

Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What will the Lucy mission teach us? 15.09.2022

Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years? 13.09.2022

Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's inside a neutron star? 08.09.2022

Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's the amplituhedron? 06.09.2022

Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory? 01.09.2022

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark? 30.08.2022

Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions about discoveries 25.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could there be two dimensions of time? 23.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge grapple with the possibility that time could flow in more than one direction, at the same time(s).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How long does a neutron live? 18.08.2022

Daniel and Katie talk about how one of the basic building blocks of matter is surprisingly impermanent and mysterious.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can a gravitational wave pass through a black hole? 16.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when one superstar of physics slams into another. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is superdeterminism? 11.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge talk about the lengths people will go to avoid accepting the randomness of quantum mechanics.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is the speed of light the same in all directions? 09.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge break down the differences between the two-way and one-way speed of light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are black holes hot or not? 04.08.2022

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes have a temperature and if we can ever know!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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