Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
VitenskapScientists 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!
Siste episoder av Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe podcast
- Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes? (01:03:10)
Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Metzger about the engineering challenges of building self-replication space probes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Listener Questions #18 (00:50:46)
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about gravtational slingshots, megafauna and microscopic black holes!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- What came before the Big Bang? (01:13:02)
Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Halper about the many mysteries of the origins of the Universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- The Mysteries of Magnetism (00:48:08)
Daniel and Kelly dig into the mysteries of magnetism, explaining how magnets work and what they reveal about the Universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Does physics have to be causal and local? (01:11:21)
Daniel and Kelly talk to Sean Carroll about where some of the basic assumptions we make about the Universe come from, and whether we need them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Zombie ants (00:51:29)
Daniel and Kelly talk about the science behind the "zombie ants".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- How does scientific peer review work? (00:56:18)
Daniel and Kelly shine a light on the inner workings of one of the crucial parts of the scientific process: peer review. How does it work? Who are these peers? Can peer-reviewed papers be wrong, and does that mean that all of science is questionable?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- How are scientific discoveries made? (01:15:56)
Daniel and Kelly explore how scientific discoveries are made, digging into fun stories, the history of science with Prof. Lydia Patton and the lessons of Nobel Prize winners with Prof. Brian Keating.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam Becker) (01:01:10)
Daniel and Kelly discuss the future of computing and talk to Adam Becker about what it all means.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life? (00:48:41)
Daniel and Kelly grapple with the implications of arbitrary numbers in our theory, whether they could have had different values, and what it all means.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Phage therapy (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson) (01:02:54)
Daniel and Kelly chat with Katrine Whiteson about how we can enlist viruses to kill infectious bacteria.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Listener Questions #17 (00:57:00)
Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about screwworm at the southern border, life without the Moon, and the status of synthetic blood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Why do we sleep and dream? (featuring Dr. Gina Poe) (01:00:03)
Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Gina Poe about sleep and dreams - including whether mushrooms sleep, what Daniel's dog is doing in the middle of the night, and what rats dream about.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- What are paraparticles? (00:47:19)
Daniel and Kelly talk about recent mathematical innovations that suggest a third category of particles beyond matter and forces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Xenotransplantation (00:50:02)
Over 100,000 people are on the organ transplant waitlist in the United States. Unfortunately, many of these people will not get an organ in time. Daniel and Kelly talk about the science and ethics behind using transgenic pigs to fill the shortfall.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Unraveling misleading popular science (00:51:07)
Daniel and Kelly uncover the real science behind some flashing recent popular science and talk about how to be an informed information consumer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Listener Questions #16 (00:39:48)
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about snowflake symmetry, flamingo burgers, and iodine protection.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- What is toponium? (00:48:23)
Daniel and Kelly explain how top quarks talk to each other and potentially form new states of matter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Killing the Speckled Monster: How We Eradicated Smallpox (00:56:37)
Daniel and Kelly appreciate that they've never had to worry about getting smallpox, and talk about the scientific and public health advancements that saved humanity from this ancient scourge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Listener Questions #15 (00:51:56)
Daniel and Kelly explain itches, the Oort cloud and the geometry of honeycombs!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Can particle beams be used to treat cancer? (00:49:06)
Daniel and Kelly talk about the practical application of particle beams: precisely targeting and killing cancer cells.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Could stars have black holes at their cores? (00:47:49)
Daniel and Kelly dive deep into the event horizon and discuss an outlandish theory of stars with black hole cores.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Going under: The history and mechanisms of general anesthesia (00:51:26)
Daniel and Kelly explore the history of general anesthesia, and what we know (or don't know) about how it works.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Listener Questions #14 (00:44:58)
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about how quantum fields make bananas, how colds mutate and whether data has mass.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- How to become a parasite (00:50:10)
Daniel and Kelly talk about whether or not dinosaurs had parasites, how often parasitism has popped up in the tree of life, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.