Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Jorge talk about the creative science in the short stories of Vandana Singh's collection "Ambiguity Machines"

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the vast and amazing Oort cloud, and whether it is throwing snowballs at us.

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Will humans figure out how to make fusion work on Earth, to provide plentiful clean power?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a new massive blob of galaxies discovered right around the corner.

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How many robots does it take to dig up rocks from Mars and deliver them back to Earth?

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Daniel and Jorge tackle the physics, engineering and safety questions of using a black hole to visit nearby stars.

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The internet went crazy talking about phosphine on Venus! What does it mean?

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Is there dark matter in black holes? Are gravitons and gravitational waves the same thing? Daniel and Jorge answer the most common listener questions!

Daniel and Jorge discuss the science of "The Doors of Eden", a multi-zooniverse novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Dark matter and dark energy are 95% of the energy in the Universe. But do we need them?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the Universe from Jorge's daughter Elinor, and talk about their new PBS Kids TV show: "Elinor Wonders Why". Link: pbskids.org/elinor

Have you heard of "Bose Einstein Condensate" but never really understood it? D&J break it down for you.

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It's not anti-matter, or supersymmetric matter, but yet another way our familiar particles might be reflected, and could explain a deep mystery of the Universe.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of the novel "The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Dr. Karen Lords.

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Does dark matter feel the Higgs? Can particles be black holes? What would happen if the Earth froze?

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What convinced people that black holes are real?

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Americans had the biggest colliders in the world, until they tried to build one that was too big. Hear the super story of the superlative supercollider.

Electrons can hang out until the end of time. Physicists think that protons should eventually fall apart. But will they?

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What happened in the first 200 microseconds of the Universe? What can you see within 200 light years from Earth?

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Recent results from the XENON experiment could be the first hint of something groundbreaking... or it could be nothing.

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