Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know if it's hot (or not!)

Hear the story of the multi-decade trans-Atlantic rivalry that led to the Higgs boson discovery.

Daniel and Jorge talk about phonons, magnons, excitons, anyons and explainons.

Daniel and Jorge explore how the new DUNE experiment could unravel secrets of neutrins... and the Universe!

Can gravity waves kill you? Why do we have particles? Can fission power a star?

Is it possible that dark matter doesn't exist? Could it just be a misunderstanding of gravity?

The amazing ANITA experiment and the bizarre neutrinos they discovered

Daniel and Jorge tackle the paradox of black holes: do they destroy information or store it forever?

Why do scientists think there might be a wispy mysterious particle? And why did they give it such a silly name?

Daniel and Jorge talk about solar sails, artificial planets and black holes!

Could mysterious black holes have been formed in the first second of the Universe?

Daniel and Jorge dissect the "EMDrive", explain how it's supposed to work and whether it ever might.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the twenty-year race to find the top quark, that came down to the wire.

Katie Goldin, host of the Creature Features pod, visits to talk about what's needed for life and where in the solar system it might be hiding.

Daniel and Jorge talk about a potential new GPS: the Galactic Positioning System.

Can a Thorne-Zytkow object, a neutron star inside another star, actually exist? Did we find one?

Daniel and Jorge talk about how the weirdest particle gets its mass

Could we build a telescope that let us see what planets around other stars look like?

Daniel and Jorge explain how the theory of "Renormalization" tells us that we measure is different from what is real.