Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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 Unite…

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 i…

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

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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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