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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe — 804 episodes
Will AI solve physics?
Listener Questions #36
Biofilms (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Does science fiction inspire real tech?
Listener Questions #35: Genetics (featuring Dr. Benjamin de Bivort)
Snakes vs Octopi (featuring Dr. Matt Giorgianni)
Does consciousness come from quantum processes in the brain?
Listener Questions #34
How cholera kills you and how we kill it
To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera
Listener Questions #33
Do we live in a super bubble?
Is Cold Fusion impossible?
Listener Questions #32
Becoming Martian (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)
Musk on the Moon
Listener Questions #31
Which planet has the most moons?
Why do animals cooperate?
Listener Questions #30
Why does the Universe minimize action?
Rabies
Bonus Episode: History Daily - The First Reported Case of the Spanish Flu
Listener Questions #29
Can cosmic rays corrupt computers?
What is interspecific brood parasitism?
Listener Questions #28
How fast are we moving?
Can quantum measurements change the past?
Listener Questions #27
What can we learn by smashing muons together?
Zombie fish
The several styles of singularities
Listener Questions #26
Perimenopause
What's the densest thing in the Universe that's not a black hole?
Listener Questions #25
How many rogue planets and stars are there?
How bad are microplastics?
Listener Questions #24
How do we predict the weather?
How do we control mosquito populations?
Listener Questions #23
The physics of shadows
Introducing : Inner Cosmos with Host David Eagleman and Guest Daniel Whiteson
How long have we been human? (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)
Listener Questions #22
Can we engineer the sun?
How to make sense of quantum entanglement
How do parasites evade our immune system? (featuring Dr. John Hawdon)
Listener Questions #21 featuring Cat Bohannan
Do Aliens Speak Physics, with Andy Warner
How was the polio vaccine developed?
Listener Questions #20
Is physics discovered or invented?
Listener Questions #19
Must there be a single unified theory of physics?
How might aliens perceive the Universe?
Why do we age? (featuring Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan)
Relativistic beaming
Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?
Listener Questions #18
What came before the Big Bang?
The Mysteries of Magnetism
Does physics have to be causal and local?
Zombie ants
How does scientific peer review work?
How are scientific discoveries made?
How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam Becker)
Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life?
Phage therapy (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Listener Questions #17
Why do we sleep and dream? (featuring Dr. Gina Poe)
What are paraparticles?
Xenotransplantation
Unraveling misleading popular science
Listener Questions #16
What is toponium?
Killing the Speckled Monster: How We Eradicated Smallpox
Listener Questions #15
Can particle beams be used to treat cancer?
Could stars have black holes at their cores?
Going under: The history and mechanisms of general anesthesia
Listener Questions #14
How to become a parasite
Should we be worried about overpopulation or depopulation?
Listener Questions #13
How do we know what elements the Universe is made of?
Why are stars different colors?
Did Colossal bring back the dire wolf?
Listener Questions #12
What is the quantum internet?
Can humans survive interstellar travel?
Is it possible to travel to other stars?
When will space be cheap? (featuring Zach Weinersmith)
The Martian Revolution (featuring Mike Duncan)
Listener Questions #11
How and why do trees get so old?
Is the standard model of dark energy in trouble?
Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson)
Listener Questions #10
Why is mercury liquid at room temperature?
How did intelligence arise?
Can we see what's inside the electron?
Listener Questions #9
Was the Tyrannosaurus rex fast or slow? (Featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)
Where does energy come from?
Are Humans Still Evolving? (Featuring Scott Solomon)
How Does Memory Work? (Featuring Dr. Michael Yassa)
What is Entropy?
Is nuclear power good for the environment? (ft. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow)
What is the future of nuclear power?
Crab Body Plans (Featuring Dr. Jo Wolfe)
Listener Questions #8
How does consciousness emerge?
Nettie Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
What did Emmy Noether reveal about the Universe?
How Many Babies Should You Have? (featuring Katie Goldin)
Can fast-moving potatoes become black holes?
Listener Questions #7
Insulin (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
Leeches (featuring Dr. Anna Phillips)
The Sexual Evolution (Featuring Dr. Nathan Lents)
Listener Questions #6
The science of taste and smell (with Steven Munger)
Can antimatter help us find dark matter?
Did the Earth ever have a ring?
Listener Questions #5
What is weak hypercharge?
Was the Big Bang left handed?
How do we defeat the dirt worms?
How did we tackle Trichinella?
Can tardigrades survive on the Moon?
Listener Questions #4
What is post-quantum gravity?
What is so beautiful about string theory?
DKEU Listener Questions Volume #3
Familes in space
Time travel fiction
Space Debris (featuring Dr. Jonathan McDowell)
Winter solstice listener questions
Who really wrote Maxwell's equations?
Holiday Special: santa, reindeer and long-lasting lamps
Listener Questions Volume #2
When animals break the law (featuring Mary Roach)
Why do planes fly?
The Expanse (featuring James S.A. Corey)
Do we have enough fuel for fusion?
Love, fear, greed, and asteroids (featuring Martin Elvis)
Thanksgiving Special: Talkin' Turkey
Listener Questions Volume #1
Cannibalism (featuring Volker Rudolf)
Exploration from the poles to the heavens
What's so exciting about quantum computing? (featuring Scott Aaronson)
What is a particle?
Off-Earth ethics (featuring Erika Nesvold)
How to keep Martians fed and happy
Halloween Special: Zombies and Ghosts
How to keep astronauts fed and happy
What is time?
What is space?
Death from the Skies! (featuring Phil Plait)
Are Earths rare in the Universe?
Challenges of Working on the Moon
Did Earth get a message from aliens?
Trailer: Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe
So long, and thanks for all the chocolate
Listener Questions 69
Listener Questions 68
Classic episode - How big is the Universe?
Listener Questions 67
Classic episode - What came before the Big Bang?
Could a huge void cause the illusion of dark energy?
Classic episode - When will the sun explode?
Listener Questions 66
Classic episode - Why is gravity so weird?
Are there comets in the asteroid belt?
Classic Episode - Is the Universe Random?
Could quantum clocks detect dark matter?
Classic Episode - Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Listener Questions goes bananas!
What was the brightest explosion ever seen?
What's the fastest event ever measured?
The science fiction Universe of "Dark Matter"
What is the Physics of life?
What is an impossible color?
How to think like a physicist?
What is membrane theory?
Listener Questions 64: Phase of the Universe, particle interactions and Universe-sized black holes!
Do black holes have magnetic fields?
Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings
How long is a photon?
Could humans live in the clouds of Venus?
Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions.
Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time!
Do neutrinos get redshifted?
Is the length of a day changing?
Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes!
Can supernovas cause ice ages?
Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons
Does dark matter have an anti-particle?
Why don't we have nuclear powered airplanes?
Listener Questions 58: Donuts, disaster and discoveries!
The science fiction Universe of "Constellation"
Listener Questions 57: Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics and Beta Decay!
Who was the most influential scientist?
What's the electric charge of the Universe?
Listener Questions 56: Neutron Stars, Dense matter and shared atmospheres!
What mysteries are hiding in the extra-galactic background light?
What’s the largest asteroid impact in Earth’s history?
Listener Questions 55: Time and waves!
What is quantum biology?
What is gravitoelectromagnetism?
Physics of the Internet
Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers
Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?
Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities
How metallic is the Sun?
Listener Questions 52
Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict?
The most promising particle physics anomalies
Listener Questions 51
What happened to M33's black hole?
Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!
How does electricity work?
Physics of Chocolate
Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)
Are there charm quarks in the proton?
Why is quantum gravity so hard?
What is cold welding?
How is general relativity wrong?
Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes
Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?
Can we see inside things using muons?
Why do some galaxies have bars?
What is quantum relativity?
Were all the forces once one?
What is the dark flow?
Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons
What are octonions?
What's hidden inside planets?
How do particles carry forces?
How can we find life on other planets?
What are land tides?
What is a symmetron?
Does hot or cold water freeze faster?
Listener Questions 46: Mountains, ether and time!
What is the electrical charge of the moon?
Can planets share an orbit?
What shapes can galaxies take?
What’s the difference between inertial and gravitational mass?
Has our solar system lost any planets?
Are there galaxies without dark matter?
Does quantum mechanics conserve energy?
Listener Questions 45: Gravity and Black holes
The Science Fiction Universe of "Invasion"
Who was the first scientist?
The Science Fiction Universe of "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman
Why is there quantum uncertainty?
What did the early Universe sound like?
Can we settle space? Should we? Have we really thought this through?
What's the matter with matter in the Universe?
Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you!
Which force(s) power the human senses?
Could we see moons around exoplanets?
Could we seed exoplanets with life?
Do Black Holes Have Hair?
Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial?
Could dark matter be making flashes of light?
Where is all the missing matter?
How does gravity escape a black hole?
Listener Questions 43: Light, heat and vision
Great, Big Questions about the Universe
How important is cosmic dust?
Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes
How big is the smallest habitable planet?
Why do moving objects look shorter?
How do we measure the Higgs boson mass?
Listener Questions 42: Life, the Universe and Ghosts!
Why do scientists do simulations?
Have we seen more or fewer gravitational waves than expected?
Why is space so flat?
The Science Fiction Universe of "Meru" by SB Divya
What is the maximum vacuum?
The Science Fiction Universe of "Orbital Cloud"
What does the center of the galaxy look like?
How fast can a black hole spin?
How can we look for magnetic monopoles?
How massive is a neutrino?
How can we keep solar panels clean on Mars?
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
Listener Questions 41: Questions about the mass of the Universe, moons made of gas, and backyard blackholes.
What everyone misunderstands about the Universe
How stable is the Earth's orbit?
Do things get more massive the faster they move?
How do planets get their moons?
Do all galaxies have central black holes?
How to use the whole galaxy to hear huge gravitational waves
What drives the movement of Earth’s continents?
What happens if you explode a nuclear bomb in space?
Listener Questions 40: Ways our Universe could end us
Could there be more than one theory of everything?
Why are some things transparent?
What is a superluminous supernova?
What color is the Sun?
Why does the Universe have antiparticles?
Could we reveal quantum gravity in a tabletop experiment?
What is tidal locking?
What's the best way to measure the expansion of the Universe?
Listener Questions 39: gravitons, antimatter and unified forces!
Will our supercluster be torn apart?
Do black holes have a maximum electric charge?
What did the night sky look like to the dinosaurs?
Could spacetime be a fluid?
Could black holes help form stars?
What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?
What is a glueball?
How do we measure the gravitational constant?
Listener Questions about rogue planets and black holes!
Why can't two electrons be in the same place?
What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?
Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?
How does carbon dating work?
Is there a better way to accelerate particles?
What does the Antikythera Mechanism do?
Listener Questions 37: quantum cats, heat death and dark multiverses!
Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?
Could we spot an alien nuclear blast?
Could some particles have tiny electric charges?
How can we measure the curvature of space?
How do space telescopes point themselves?
Listener Questions 36
Could black holes be making the Universe expand faster?
Do gravitational waves leave a mark on the Universe?
Can the Parker solar probe shed light on the Sun?
What's the problem with the Standard Model?
The Science Fiction Universe of "A Half Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys
355 Days in Space: Finding Meaning with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei
What's the real speed limit of the Universe?
Listener Questions 35: Exomoons, black holes and math!
Does gravity make rainbows?
Why can't stars fuse Iron?
Does particle spin affect life on Earth?
What's going on with Przybylski's Star?
The Science of "For All Mankind"
Does anti-matter feel anti-gravity?
Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?
Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?
Listener Questions about light and black holes
How powerful could a civilization get?
What is quantized inertia?
Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?
The biggest collisions in the Universe
The science of time travel television
What is the Big Rip?
Could dark matter be a superfluid?
Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?
Is there a pattern to asteroid impacts on Earth?
What is a black hole eclipse?
What is the densest planet?
Does the Moon have an atmosphere?
How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?
Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids!
What are sterile neutrinos?
Why is math so important for physics?
How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?
Can you send messages without particles?
How do planets get rings?
Can you make matter out of pure electrons?
What are the most common elements in the Universe?
Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball
How dangerous is nuclear waste?
What's up with Iapetus?
Can you communicate with neutrinos?
The Science of "The Spare Man"
What's it like to be an alien?
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Why does physics even work?
What is negative temperature?
Is math the language of the Universe?
What are quantum glasses?
What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
What's inside a neutron star?
What's the amplituhedron?
Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?
If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?
Listener Questions about discoveries
Could there be two dimensions of time?
How long does a neutron live?
Can a gravitational wave pass through a black hole?
What is superdeterminism?
Is the speed of light the same in all directions?
Are black holes hot or not?
Listener Questions about aliens, black holes and white holes!
What is early dark energy?
What can slime molds teach us about dark matter?
What did the first JWST images reveal?
Why is momentum conserved?
What is laser fusion?
How do galaxies die?
What is a quark gluon plasma?
How do fireworks work?
What happens to event horizons when black holes collide?
Do photons bump into each other?
Listener Questions about Annihilation
What is Energy?
Could aliens teach us science?
Can the Earth survive when the Sun expands?
What will the next generation of space telescopes reveal?
Could the Universe be shaped like a donut?
Where is most of Earth's water?
What if gravity were much stronger?
Tech in the Great Outdoors
What does our black hole look like?
Is the whole Universe spinning?
What is a particle?
Can we defend the Earth from deadly space rocks?
What does the NICER telescope study?
Can we escape a black hole with a warp drive or wormhole?
Creature Feature: The Physics of Animal Color
Can the human eye see a single photon?
Introducing: Spyology Squad
What came first matter or energy?
What can neutrinos teach us about supernovas?
Is the W boson too massive?
Is nuclear power worth the risks?
The science fiction universe of "Lost in Space"
What are zombie stars?
What if the speed of light were slower?
Is it dangerous to send messages to aliens?
Are there particles that don't have anti-particles?
How big can a comet get?
What could aliens teach us about the Universe?
What will the new probes to Venus reveal?
Could we build a particle collider on the moon?
Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?
How to take over the world
Can we put black holes to work for us?
Why do stars twinkle?
What is dark radiation?
What is the future of exoplanet research?
Where does the Higgs get its mass?
Can you roast a marshmallow in space, and other listener questions.
Is there Uranium on Uranus?
Does the Universe have a preferred direction?
Why does the Higgs boson like Mexican hats?
Can we build a wormhole?
Listener questions about alien tech, the Earth's orbit and its future!
Is there an explanation for the Universe, or is it random?
The next revolution in theoretical physics
Could our galaxy have a dark matter center?
Could life have started much earlier in the Universe?
The mysterious phenomenon of turning sound into light
Do we know where dark matter is?
What's happening to the Hyades Cluster?
Why black holes are actually bright.
What happens when stars collide?
Did this particle cause the Big Bang?
What if the asteroid hadn't killed the dinosaurs?
Could quantum mechanics be deterministic?
What is Zodiacal Light?
Will starlink spoil astronomy?
Can something be both a conductor and insulator?
Did our Universe evolve?
How should we search for extra terrestrial intelligence?
Things that glow in the dark
Kids questions about the Universe!
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?
How to be a supervillain with physics.
How do we measure the speed of light?
Why do we think dark matter is made of particles?
How did exotic particles change the Universe?
What is Relational Quantum Mechanics?
Frequently Asked Listener Questions About the Universe!
Why does gravity slow down time?
How do you spot a wormhole?
Are black holes really black holes?
Are neutrinos hiding the dark matter?
Black Hole Questions!
What is a quantum eraser?
How many generations of stars will there be?
Is time pixelated?
What hidden symmetry is controlling the Universe?
Do fission reactors occur naturally?
Does the Universe need cause and effect?
Does the weak force attract or repel?
Is the Universe a hologram?
Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!
Can you be motionless in space?
Why don't we have electric airplanes?
What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
What is a space hurricane?
What's a proton made of?
What if our particles were different?
What is a light cone?
How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?
Why is the three-body problem so hard?
How many stars can a solar system have?
Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, antimatter stars and Jupiter-eating aliens!
Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?
How does a plasma thruster work?
Can you outrun a flash of light?
How were pulsars discovered?
The SF Universe of Cadwell Turnbull's "The Lesson"
What's the cosmic gravitational background?
What do the Navy UFO videos really mean?
Is infinity real or just mathematical?
How many moons does the Earth have?
Listener Questions: photon information, simulated Universes and Daniel's fantasy science budget
The SF Universe of Essa Hansen's novel "Nophek Gloss"
Is it possible to have a two-dimensional object?
Are there stars made of dark matter?
Where are all the medium-sized black holes?
How was the cosmic microwave background discovered?
How many Higgs bosons are there?
Where did the Earth's atmosphere come from?
What did we learn from the Arecibo Radio Telescope?
Why does measuring a quantum object change it?
Can there be life INSIDE a black hole?
Listener Questions: the expanding observable Universe, what it's like to be a photon and the age of the Universe
What is Frame Dragging?
Is space-based solar power realistic?
Does Mars Have a Liquid Center?
What's the most promising theory of EVERYTHING?
What's the most powerful volcano in the Solar System?
Can the Universe exist without space?
The Science Fiction Universe of SB Divya
Can brains spontaneously form in space?
Listener Questions: Black Holes, Dark Entropy and a Radio Free Zone!
Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?
Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?
Have we solved the black hole information paradox?
What's a Tesseract?
Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?
What's the heaviest stable element?
What's the Huge Large Quasar Group?
What is the Space Roar?
What was the pioneer anomaly?
The Science Finction Universe of Lindsay Ellis
Daniel answers Listener Questions about black holes, antimatter stars and why the Universe exists!
Why does our Universe have a Cold Spot?
What are boson stars?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the smell of space, the electroweak force and spotting distant aliens.
What are globular clusters?
What is a Quantum Dot?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.
Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?
Can we build an invisibility cloak?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking radiation, 5G networks and wireless phone chargers!
What's a Time Crystal?
What's the biggest star in the Universe?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed time-like curves, force fields, and the lifetime of the Earth's magnetic field
How do we know the mass of stars?
Listener Questions 14: Black holes, aliens and zombies!
Can a planet be bigger than its star?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about how to read science headlines, gravitational slingshots, lorentz symmetry and the speed of light!
Can we see planets in other galaxies?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about a donut Universe, mirrors and black holes!
Why can’t we see quantum effects in everyday objects?
Is space filled with infinite energy?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about energy conservation, inflation and space dust!
How was radiation discovered?
Are there centaurs in outer space?
Is there matter that is not made of particles?
What will the DragonFly mission find on Titan?
What's the fastest spinning thing in the Universe?
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the size of the Universe, what's in intergalactic space and why gravity dominates the Universe.
Daniel answers Listener Questions about dark matter, black holes and particle colliders
What happened in the dark ages of the Universe?
Can you undress a black hole?
The Sticky Story of the Gluon's Discovery
What's it like to fall into a black hole?
Listener Questions 13: Space water, wormhole colliders and boxes of dark matter
The SF Universe of Max Barry
What's the Oldest Thing in the Universe?
The surprising shape of the Milky Way
How to land a robot on an asteroid
The mysterious sources of the Van Allen radiation belts
What if the Earth Stopped Spinning
The Quantum Physics of Solar Panels
A discounted dark matter discovery
Is all of space magnetized?
Is Energy Actually Conserved?
The SF Universes of Vandana Singh
Where do comets come from?
Will the ITER experiment make fusion feasible?
New discoveries in our cosmic neighborhood
How can we bring rocks back from Mars?
Can a black hole power a spaceship?
Is there life on Venus?
The most common listener questions!
The SF Multi-verse of Adrian Tchaikovsky
What would happen if dark matter and dark energy disappeared?
Elinor Wonders About the Universe
What is Bose Einstein Condensate
What is Mirror Matter?
The SF Universe of Dr. Karen Lords
Listener Questions 12: Higgs Bosons, Black holes and earthquakes!
How did we discover black holes?
What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?
Do protons live forever?
Special 200th episode!
Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?
How did supermassive black holes get so big?
The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment
Is dark matter hot?
How was the Higgs boson discovered?
What are quasi-particles
Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?
Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.
Does the Universe need dark matter?
Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?
Do black holes destroy information?
What is the axion?
The SF Universe of Alastair Reynolds "Revenger"
What are primordial black holes?
Is the impossible drive possible?
The long race for the top quark
Where in the solar system might we find life? (ft. Katie Goldin of Creature Features)
How do you navigate in deep space?
Can stars eat other stars?
Why are neutrinos so light?
Can we see the surface of exoplanets?
What is the real charge of the electron?
Could Jupiter turn into a star?
What are the basic constants of the Universe?
Listener Question 10: Particles, stars and universe-sized black holes!
Can Dark Matter feel itself
How do LEDs work?
Should we believe any alien abduction stories?
Does Stephen Wolfram's Theory of Everything Work?
The SF Universe of Sue Burke's "Semiosis"
Can planets lose their atmospheres?
What is the Cosmological Constant?
How quarks were discovered?
What is the tallest mountain in the solar system?
The SF Universe of Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Calculating Stars"
Could dark matter be made of quarks?
The SF Universe of Becky Chamber's "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet"
Listener Questions 9
What are virtual particles?
The SF Universe of Blake Crouch's "Recursion"
How small is an electron?
Why is strange matter so strange?
The science fiction universe of "Ancillary Justice"
What is the biggest explosion in the universe
Is it possible to move the sun?
Is the Universe infinite?
What have we learned from the Spitzer Space Telescope?
Choose your own physics adventure!
Can quantum gravity save physics?
Listener Questions 8: Can AI understand humor?
What causes the biggest explosions in the universe?
Are there planets without a star?
Can you slow down light?
What is the great attractor?
Can particles travel faster than light?
4 ways physics could end the world
Is Betelgeuse about to explode?
Why can quarks never be alone?
Is space filled with junk?
Why is the universe inflating?
What will the new space telescope reveal?
Why do some particles die?
Is the universe left-handed?
Can you destroy a black hole?
How does relativity affect our perception of time?
How was antimatter discovered?
What are cosmic strings?
What is quantum spacetime foam?
What are magnetic monopoles?
How fast is the universe blowing up?
Is there a fifth force of the universe?
Listener Questions 7
The mystery of the missing neutrinos
Where is the coldest place in the Universe?
Is our solar system weird?
Who ordered the muon?
Can science predict what you will do?
Is it possible to send messages faster than light using quantum entanglement?
Is there weather in space?
News from the Solar System
Journey to the Beginning of Time (featuring Dan Hooper)
What's in the asteroid belt?
Does Quantum Mechanics make sense?
Can we build a warp drive?
How do we know the photon is real?
Can you imagine a color you've never seen?
What is the cosmic microwave background?
Listener Questions 6
What are fermi bubbles?
How many stars can you see in the night sky with the naked eye?
What are fast radio bursts and what causes them?
The shocking mystery of lightning explained
Will the Higgs-Boson destroy the universe?
How to see pictures of dinosaurs (featuring XKCD creator Randall Munroe)
What is the physics behind skipping stones?
How do microwaves work?
What are Tardigrades?
What was the first particle ever discovered? And how was it discovered?
Why is half of the moon always hidden?
What is a graviton?
What would happen on earth if the moon disappeared?
Listener Questions 5
What would happen if the sun became a black hole?
What are white holes?
Take a cruise of the exoplanets
How old is the earth?
Do aliens exist?
Can you see an electron or other tiny particles?
What is the strongest magnet in the universe?
Why haven't aliens visited us?
What is the Weak Force?
What is Cold Fusion?
How do you make gold?
How do MRIs work?
What is the hexagon on saturn?
What is Quantum Tunneling?
Can you sail on light?
What is the densest thing in the universe?
What do Quarks taste like?
Listener Questions 4
What is the brightest thing in the universe?
Is the Earth round?
How can we see Dark Matter?
Listener Questions 3
What Is Radiation?
What Is the Hottest Thing In The Universe?
What Is A Dyson Sphere?
Bad Science Questions
What Is Quantum Spin?
What Is The Emptiest Place In The Universe?
What's In Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
Will A Gamma Ray Burst Kill You?
What's Inside The Earth?
How Does A Bicycle Balance?
Why Does Time Go Forwards?
What Is A Tachyon?
What is Supersymmetry?
Questions From The Zeitgeist (ft The Daily Zeitgeist hosts)
What Is A Space Elevator?
Can You See A Black Hole?
What Are The Weirdest Stars?
What's Under The Ice On Europa?
What's The Biggest "Thing" in The Universe?
Listener Questions 2.0
What Is A Superconductor?
What Was Oumuamua?
What Are Quantum Fields?
What Is Time Dilation?
Why Do We Have Stars?
How Does A Laser Work?
How Old Is The Universe?
What's At The Center Of The Galaxy?
Is Anti-Gravity Technology Possible?
Where Does The Earth's Magnetic Field Come From?
Are Wormholes Real?
What Is Terraforming?
What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean?
What Nobel Prizes Have Been Proven Wrong?
Is A New Particle Collider Worth $20B?
How Did The Moon Form?
What Are Cosmic Rays?
Is The Multiverse Real?
How Can We Tell The Distance To Stars?
What Is The Most Important Invention In Human History? (ft. Ryan North)
Listener Questions
What Is A Quantum Computer?
What Happens When Galaxies Collide?
Why Is Gravity So Weird?
Is the Universe pixelated?
Are there other Earths out there?
Was/Is There Life On Mars?
What Is String Theory?
Will Physics Ever Explain Everything?
What Is A Dimension And How Many Are There?
What is a Neutrino?
How Does a Nuclear Bomb Work?
Is Teleportation Possible?
Is the Universe Random?
Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
The Baby Universe (ft. Katie Mack)
Can We Travel Faster Than Light?
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Are there Aliens?
Is Anti-Matter a Real Thing?
How will the Universe die?
What is making the Universe explode?
Will an Asteroid Kill You?
What's Inside a Black Hole?
How Big is the Universe?
What's the smallest piece of matter? Is there one?
What is everything made of?
What are Gravitational Waves?
When will the Sun explode?
Is Time Travel Possible?
What came before the Big Bang?
Is the Higgs Boson useful?
Are we Living in a Simulation?
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe: Trailer