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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 Daniel Abrahams and Ty Franck, the authors behind The Expanse series.

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The Expanse (featuring James S.A. Corey)

Daniel and Kelly dig into the surprisingly controversial question of why airplanes stay in the air.

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Why do planes fly?

Daniel and Kelly chat with Mary Roach about her latest book (Fuzz), and how she goes about getting the incredible stories that appear in her books.

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When animals break the law (featuring Mary Roach)

Daniel and Kelly answer questions from curious listeners, about big black holes, nuking hurricanes and the philosophy of photons.

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Listener Questions Volume #2

Daniel and Kelly talk about how santa takes solves an NP-hard problem, how reindeer fly and glow, and the physics of lamps that defy time.

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Holiday Special: santa, reindeer and long-lasting lamps

Daniel and Kelly talk to Kathy Joseph about the true, twisted history of humanity's understanding of electromagnetism

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Who really wrote Maxwell's equations?

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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Space Debris (featuring Dr. Jonathan McDowell)

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

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Winter solstice listener questions

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

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Time travel fiction

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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Familes in space

Daniel and Kelly dive into the left-right asymmetry of hands, life, particles and the Universe itself.
 
(This version was edited to reflect that 2d space has handedness and methane is non-chiral.)

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Was the Big Bang left handed?

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