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
Here’s an episode of a show we think you’ll love. It’s History Daily which tells the fascinating stories of what happened “on this day” in history. New episodes come out every weekday. In this episode, it’s March 11, 1918. A US army cook becomes the first person diagnosed with the Spanish Flu, setting off the deadliest pandemic in modern history.
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about bark beetles, ambipolar fields, and gray hairs!
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Daniel and Kelly talk about how computers store information, and how cosmic rays might flip some vital bits.
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Daniel and Kelly talk about interspecific brood parasites - which are species that sneak their eggs into the nests of other, unsuspecting species. How do they get away with this?
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about black holes, duplicate organs and bubble Universes!
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Daniel and Kelly slow down to understand what velocity really means, and how much we have of it.
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Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about birthing multiple species, mental imagery, and face mites!
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Daniel and Kelly talk about why particle physicists are excited about a muon collider.
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Daniel and Kelly talk about a brain-infecting parasite of California Killifish, and discuss how the parasite might be altering the fish's behavior to its own ends.
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Daniel and Kelly take a tour through the various singularities that are predicted by general relativity.
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about tornadoes, water purification, and massive moons in the sky.
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Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine discuss what happens during menopause, why evolutionary biologists think menopause occurs, and our current knowledge of the risks of hormone therapy.
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Daniel and Kelly dive into the hearts of blue giants, massive planets, and neutron stars to reveal a surprising limit on cosmic density.
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about kissing bugs, magnetic fields in the Sun, and microbiomes in space.
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Daniel and Kelly answer a question from a listener about planets without stars and stars without galaxies.
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Microplastics are everywhere. How did they get there, and should we worry?
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about Jupiter and circadian rhythms.
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Daniel and Kelly explain how physics predicts the future rain and shine, and all of the incredible science involved.
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Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine chat about how mosquitos find us, and what we can do to protect ourselves from the diseases they transmit.
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