Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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.

What is the fate of the largest planet in our solar system?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the numbers that control everything, and the number of those numbers!

Daniel and Jorge answer listener questions about the smallest, biggest and cataclysmic-ist things in the Universe!

What happens when DM bumps into DM in the dark?

The Nobel-prize winning physics of.... reading lights.

Daniel and Jorge talk about how to be skeptical and open minded.

How does Stephen Wolfram's Physics Project work and what have we learned?

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when plants can think. Is eating a banana now murder?