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!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 738
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Does Mars Have a Liquid Center?
Daniel and Jorge crack open the red planet and talk about whether it is totally solid, or whether it still has liquid flowing inside!
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What's the most promising theory of EVERYTHING?
Daniel and Jorge talk about string theory, loop quantum gravity, M-theory, p-branes, geometric unity and ice cream!
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What's the most powerful volcano in the Solar System?
Daniel and Jorge break down how volcanos work and blow up your idea of what makes a powerful volcano blow.
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Can the Universe exist without space?
Daniel and Jorge break down the Universe to its most basic level and ask if space is necessary
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The Science Fiction Universe of SB Divya
Daniel interviews SB Divya about her new novel "Machinehood" which explores whether machines can be self-aware.
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Can brains spontaneously form in space?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the chance that you could be a brain floating in space.
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Listener Questions: Black Holes, Dark Entropy and a Radio Free Zone!
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Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?
Daniel and Jorge explain the exciting new results from the LHCb experiment!
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Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the result of the g-2 experiment at Fermilab and what it means!
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Have we solved the black hole information paradox?
Daniel and Jorge break down recent advances in quantum gravity!
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What's a Tesseract?
Daniel and Jorge talk about 4-dimensional cubes, life in the 4th dimension and the Infinity Stones!
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Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?
Daniel and guest host Kelly Weinersmith explore the dramatic story of Jupiter's wandering orbits
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What's the heaviest stable element?
Daniel and Jorge take a trip to the theoretical Island of Stability and talk about super heavy elements
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What's the Huge Large Quasar Group?
Daniel and Jorge talk about quasars, large groups of quasars and HUGE LARGE groups of quasars!
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What is the Space Roar?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysterious, unexplained "space roar" and whether its a clue about something new in the Universe.
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What was the pioneer anomaly?
Daniel and Jorge dig into the mystery of why the Pioneer spacecraft's path surprised scientists.
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The Science Finction Universe of Lindsay Ellis
Daniel and Jorge talk about the Universe of Lindsay Ellis' novel "Axiom's End"
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about black holes, antimatter stars and why the Universe exists!
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Why does our Universe have a Cold Spot?
Daniel and Jorge explain why scientists are puzzling over a massive cold spot in the sky.
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What are boson stars?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether its possible to have stars made out of bosons!
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