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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!
Episodes
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the smell of space, the electroweak force and spotting distant aliens.
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What are globular clusters?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin explore the mysteries of these weird, ancient blobs of stars. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What is a Quantum Dot?
Daniel and Jorge break down the quantum world into tiny dots that have amazing properties. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?
Daniel and Jorge explain Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and what it means about the origins of the Universe. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can we build an invisibility cloak?
Daniel and guest host Kelly Weinersmith break down the science and science-fiction of invisibility. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking radiation, 5G networks and wireless phone chargers!
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What's a Time Crystal?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin talk about the crazy and real science of time crystals Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What's the biggest star in the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge talk about mind-blowingly huge balls of burning gas. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed time-like curves, force fields, and the lifetime of the Earth's magnetic field
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
How do we know the mass of stars?
Daniel talks about how astronomers can measure or deduce the mass of a star, and why it controls its fate. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Listener Questions 14: Black holes, aliens and zombies!
Daniel and Jorge talk about what kind of elements are inside a black hole, how to respond to aliens and whether physicists are useful or useless in a zombie…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can a planet be bigger than its star?
What counts as a planet and is it possible for it to outweigh or outsize its parent star? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about how to read science headlines, gravitational slingshots, lorentz symmetry and the speed of light!
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can we see planets in other galaxies?
Daniel and Jorge talk about how astronomers are trying to detect planets in far away galaxies! Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about a donut Universe, mirrors and black holes!
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Why can’t we see quantum effects in everyday objects?
Daniel and Jorge talk about quantum decoherence and why big things don't act like quantum particles. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Is space filled with infinite energy?
Daniel and Jorge tackle the confusing conundrum of the Casimir Effect and quantum zero-point energy Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about energy conservation, inflation and space dust!
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
How was radiation discovered?
X-rays, U-rays, and cosmic rays! Hear the story for how we came to understand that our world is filled with invisible dangers. Learn more about your ad-choices…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Are there centaurs in outer space?
Centaurs are real, but not on Earth. Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird objects astronomers call a "space centaur" Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Is there matter that is not made of particles?
Is it possible that matter could be made of something that's not particles? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What will the DragonFly mission find on Titan?
NASA is building an awesome drone to fly around the surface of Saturn's moon. What will it find? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What's the fastest spinning thing in the Universe?
Part of their "Extreme Universe" series, Daniel and Jorge make your head spin with all of the crazy spinning objects in the Universe. Learn more about your…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the size of the Universe, what's in intergalactic space and why gravity dominates the Universe.
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Daniel answers Listener Questions about dark matter, black holes and particle colliders
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/ Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What happened in the dark ages of the Universe?
Before the stars and galaxies formed, the Universe was dark and foggy for hundreds of millions of years! Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can you undress a black hole?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether it's possible to observe a "naked singularity" Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The Sticky Story of the Gluon's Discovery
What is the gluon and how was it discovered? Daniel and Jorge take us through the dramatic events. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What's it like to fall into a black hole?
Take a cosmic field trip with Daniel and Jorge, as they guide you on a thought experiment into the heart of the most mysterious objects in the Universe. Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Listener Questions 13: Space water, wormhole colliders and boxes of dark matter
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners, like you! Submit yours, to questions@danielandjorge.com Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The SF Universe of Max Barry
In Max Barry's new novel "Providence", humanity runs into aliens. It doesn't go well. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What's the Oldest Thing in the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the age of stars, galaxies, black holes and more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The surprising shape of the Milky Way
How do we know the shape of our galaxy, since we're stuck in the middle of it? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
How to land a robot on an asteroid
NASA sent Osiris-Rex to scoop a cup of dirt from an asteroid ... using a pogo stick! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The mysterious sources of the Van Allen radiation belts
Daniel and Jorge talk about the strange belts of particles surrounding the Earth, and the South Atlantic Anomaly Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What if the Earth Stopped Spinning
What makes planets spin, and what would happen if they stopped? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The Quantum Physics of Solar Panels
Daniel and Jorge break down the physics and engineering behind solar panels Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
A discounted dark matter discovery
Why do particle physicists discount the beautiful signal of dark matter from the DAMA experiment? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Is all of space magnetized?
Is it possible that there are magnetic fields.... everywhere? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Is Energy Actually Conserved?
Daniel and Jorge explore whether energy is actually a fundamental conserved quantity. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The SF Universes of Vandana Singh
Daniel and Jorge talk about the creative science in the short stories of Vandana Singh's collection "Ambiguity Machines" Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Where do comets come from?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the vast and amazing Oort cloud, and whether it is throwing snowballs at us. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Will the ITER experiment make fusion feasible?
Will humans figure out how to make fusion work on Earth, to provide plentiful clean power? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
New discoveries in our cosmic neighborhood
Daniel and Jorge talk about a new massive blob of galaxies discovered right around the corner. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
How can we bring rocks back from Mars?
How many robots does it take to dig up rocks from Mars and deliver them back to Earth? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Can a black hole power a spaceship?
Daniel and Jorge tackle the physics, engineering and safety questions of using a black hole to visit nearby stars. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Is there life on Venus?
The internet went crazy talking about phosphine on Venus! What does it mean? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The most common listener questions!
Is there dark matter in black holes? Are gravitons and gravitational waves the same thing? Daniel and Jorge answer the most common listener questions! Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The SF Multi-verse of Adrian Tchaikovsky
Daniel and Jorge discuss the science of "The Doors of Eden", a multi-zooniverse novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What would happen if dark matter and dark energy disappeared?
Dark matter and dark energy are 95% of the energy in the Universe. But do we need them? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Elinor Wonders About the Universe
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…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What is Bose Einstein Condensate
Have you heard of "Bose Einstein Condensate" but never really understood it? D&J break it down for you. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What is Mirror Matter?
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…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
The SF Universe of Dr. Karen Lords
Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of the novel "The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Dr. Karen Lords…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Listener Questions 12: Higgs Bosons, Black holes and earthquakes!
Does dark matter feel the Higgs? Can particles be black holes? What would happen if the Earth froze? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
How did we discover black holes?
What convinced people that black holes are real? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?
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. Learn…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Do protons live forever?
Electrons can hang out until the end of time. Physicists think that protons should eventually fall apart. But will they? Learn more about your ad-choices at…
- Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Special 200th episode!
What happened in the first 200 microseconds of the Universe? What can you see within 200 light years from Earth? Learn more about your ad-choices at…