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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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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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Published 2023-11-02

What's the matter with matter in the Universe?

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

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Published 2023-10-03

How does gravity escape a black hole?

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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 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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Published 2023-09-21

How important is cosmic dust?

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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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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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Published 2023-09-19

Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes

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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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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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Published 2023-09-07

How do we measure the Higgs boson mass?

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

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Published 2023-07-11

Do things get more massive the faster they move?

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

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Published 2023-06-20

Listener Questions 40: Ways our Universe could end us

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

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Published 2023-06-15

Could there be more than one theory of everything?

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

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Published 2023-05-30

Could we reveal quantum gravity in a tabletop experiment?

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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 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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Published 2023-05-25

What is tidal locking?

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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 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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