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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!

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Metzger about the engineering challenges of building self-replication space probes.

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Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?

Daniel and Kelly answer questions about gravtational slingshots, megafauna and microscopic black holes!

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Listener Questions #18

Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Halper about the many mysteries of the origins of the Universe.

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What came before the Big Bang?

Daniel and Kelly dig into the mysteries of magnetism, explaining how magnets work and what they reveal about the Universe.

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The Mysteries of Magnetism

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.

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Does physics have to be causal and local?

Daniel and Kelly talk about the science behind the "zombie ants".

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Zombie ants

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?

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How does scientific peer review work?

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.

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How are scientific discoveries made?

Daniel and Kelly discuss the future of computing and talk to Adam Becker about what it all means.

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How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam Becker)

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.

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Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life?

Daniel and Kelly explain itches, the Oort cloud and the geometry of honeycombs!

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Listener Questions #15

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