Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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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!

  • 47 minutes 51 seconds
    How do we defeat the dirt worms?

    Daniel and Kelly talk about what we're doing to combat soil-transmitted nematodes, which are parasite that infects up to 25% of the world's population. 

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    30 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 46 minutes 10 seconds
    How did we tackle Trichinella?

    Daniel and Kelly talk about how public health officials turned "the most serious parasitic disease in New England" into a disease that only afflicts about 15 people per year in the whole of the United States. 

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    28 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 51 minutes
    Can tardigrades survive on the Moon?

    Daniel and Kelly talk about the extraordinary ability to tardigrades to survive extreme conditions, and ponder whether those abilities have kept them alive after a space craft carrying them crashed into the surface of the Moon. 

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    23 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 43 minutes 10 seconds
    Listener Questions #4

    Daniel and Kelly answer questions about binary star seasons, meat wasps and freefall.

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    21 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 51 minutes 32 seconds
    What is post-quantum gravity?

    Daniel and Kelly talk to Jonathan Oppenheim about his unusual theory of unpredictable gravity

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    16 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    What is so beautiful about string theory?

    Daniel and Kelly talk to Thomas Van Riet about how string theory unravels the puzzle of quantum gravity and whether math can be beautiful.

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    14 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    DKEU Listener Questions Volume #3

    Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about soil on Mars, the double slit experiment, and adaptations for surviving on the Red Planet. 

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    9 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 54 minutes 34 seconds
    Familes in space

    Can humans safely have babies in space? Daniel and Kelly talk about what we know about human health in space, and our prospects for starting families there. 

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    7 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 44 minutes 31 seconds
    Time travel fiction

    Daniel and Kelly talk to authors about the science and storytelling of time-travel.

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    2 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 54 minutes 9 seconds
    Space Debris (featuring Dr. Jonathan McDowell)

    Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Jonathan McDowell about the kinds of junk you find in space, the problems it causes, and what we can do about it. 

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    31 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 23 minutes 51 seconds
    Winter solstice listener questions

    Daniel and Katie answer a question about building super duper long structures in space

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    31 December 2024, 6:00 am
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