Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

Episode Date
Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?
Apr 18, 2024
Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities
Apr 16, 2024
How metallic is the Sun?
Apr 11, 2024
Listener Questions 52
Apr 09, 2024
Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict?
Apr 04, 2024
The most promising particle physics anomalies
Apr 02, 2024
Listener Questions 51
Mar 28, 2024
What happened to M33's black hole?
Mar 26, 2024
Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!
Mar 21, 2024
How does electricity work?
Mar 19, 2024
Physics of Chocolate
Mar 14, 2024
Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!
Mar 12, 2024
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)
Mar 07, 2024
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)
Mar 05, 2024
Are there charm quarks in the proton?
Feb 29, 2024
Why is quantum gravity so hard?
Feb 27, 2024
What is cold welding?
Feb 22, 2024
How is general relativity wrong?
Feb 20, 2024
Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes
Feb 15, 2024
Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?
Feb 13, 2024
Can we see inside things using muons?
Feb 08, 2024
Why do some galaxies have bars?
Feb 06, 2024
What is quantum relativity?
Feb 01, 2024
Were all the forces once one?
Jan 30, 2024
What is the dark flow?
Jan 25, 2024
Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons
Jan 23, 2024
What are octonions?
Jan 18, 2024
What's hidden inside planets?
Jan 16, 2024
How do particles carry forces?
Jan 11, 2024
How can we find life on other planets?
Jan 09, 2024
What are land tides?
Jan 04, 2024
What is a symmetron?
Jan 02, 2024
Does hot or cold water freeze faster?
Dec 28, 2023
Listener Questions 46: Mountains, ether and time!
Dec 26, 2023
What is the electrical charge of the moon?
Dec 21, 2023
Can planets share an orbit?
Dec 19, 2023
What shapes can galaxies take?
Dec 14, 2023
What’s the difference between inertial and gravitational mass?
Dec 12, 2023
Has our solar system lost any planets?
Dec 07, 2023
Are there galaxies without dark matter?
Dec 05, 2023
Does quantum mechanics conserve energy?
Nov 30, 2023
Listener Questions 45: Gravity and Black holes
Nov 28, 2023
The Science Fiction Universe of "Invasion"
Nov 23, 2023
Who was the first scientist?
Nov 21, 2023
The Science Fiction Universe of "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman
Nov 16, 2023
Why is there quantum uncertainty?
Nov 14, 2023
What did the early Universe sound like?
Nov 09, 2023
Can we settle space? Should we? Have we really thought this through?
Nov 07, 2023
What's the matter with matter in the Universe?
Nov 02, 2023
Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you!
Oct 31, 2023
Which force(s) power the human senses?
Oct 26, 2023
Could we see moons around exoplanets?
Oct 24, 2023
Could we seed exoplanets with life?
Oct 19, 2023
Do Black Holes Have Hair?
Oct 17, 2023
Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial?
Oct 12, 2023
Could dark matter be making flashes of light?
Oct 10, 2023
Where is all the missing matter?
Oct 05, 2023
How does gravity escape a black hole?
Oct 03, 2023
Listener Questions 43: Light, heat and vision
Sep 28, 2023
Great, Big Questions about the Universe
Sep 26, 2023
How important is cosmic dust?
Sep 21, 2023
Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes
Sep 19, 2023
How big is the smallest habitable planet?
Sep 14, 2023
Why do moving objects look shorter?
Sep 12, 2023
How do we measure the Higgs boson mass?
Sep 07, 2023
Listener Questions 42: Life, the Universe and Ghosts!
Sep 05, 2023
Why do scientists do simulations?
Aug 31, 2023
Have we seen more or fewer gravitational waves than expected?
Aug 29, 2023
Why is space so flat?
Aug 24, 2023
The Science Fiction Universe of "Meru" by SB Divya
Aug 22, 2023
What is the maximum vacuum?
Aug 17, 2023
The Science Fiction Universe of "Orbital Cloud"
Aug 15, 2023
What does the center of the galaxy look like?
Aug 10, 2023
How fast can a black hole spin?
Aug 08, 2023
How can we look for magnetic monopoles?
Aug 03, 2023
How massive is a neutrino?
Aug 01, 2023
How can we keep solar panels clean on Mars?
Jul 27, 2023
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
Jul 25, 2023
Listener Questions 41: Questions about the mass of the Universe, moons made of gas, and backyard blackholes.
Jul 20, 2023
What everyone misunderstands about the Universe
Jul 18, 2023
How stable is the Earth's orbit?
Jul 13, 2023
Do things get more massive the faster they move?
Jul 11, 2023
How do planets get their moons?
Jul 06, 2023
Do all galaxies have central black holes?
Jul 04, 2023
How to use the whole galaxy to hear huge gravitational waves
Jun 29, 2023
What drives the movement of Earth’s continents?
Jun 27, 2023
What happens if you explode a nuclear bomb in space?
Jun 22, 2023
Listener Questions 40: Ways our Universe could end us
Jun 20, 2023
Could there be more than one theory of everything?
Jun 15, 2023
Why are some things transparent?
Jun 13, 2023
What is a superluminous supernova?
Jun 08, 2023
What color is the Sun?
Jun 06, 2023
Why does the Universe have antiparticles?
Jun 01, 2023
Could we reveal quantum gravity in a tabletop experiment?
May 30, 2023
What is tidal locking?
May 25, 2023
What's the best way to measure the expansion of the Universe?
May 23, 2023
Listener Questions 39: gravitons, antimatter and unified forces!
May 18, 2023
Will our supercluster be torn apart?
May 16, 2023
Do black holes have a maximum electric charge?
May 11, 2023
What did the night sky look like to the dinosaurs?
May 09, 2023
Could spacetime be a fluid?
May 04, 2023
Could black holes help form stars?
May 02, 2023
What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?
Apr 27, 2023
What is a glueball?
Apr 25, 2023
How do we measure the gravitational constant?
Apr 20, 2023
Listener Questions about rogue planets and black holes!
Apr 18, 2023
Why can't two electrons be in the same place?
Apr 13, 2023
What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?
Apr 11, 2023
Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?
Apr 06, 2023
How does carbon dating work?
Apr 04, 2023
Is there a better way to accelerate particles?
Mar 30, 2023
What does the Antikythera Mechanism do?
Mar 28, 2023
Listener Questions 37: quantum cats, heat death and dark multiverses!
Mar 23, 2023
Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?
Mar 21, 2023
Could we spot an alien nuclear blast?
Mar 16, 2023
Could some particles have tiny electric charges?
Mar 14, 2023
How can we measure the curvature of space?
Mar 09, 2023
How do space telescopes point themselves?
Mar 07, 2023
Listener Questions 36
Mar 02, 2023
Could black holes be making the Universe expand faster?
Feb 28, 2023
Do gravitational waves leave a mark on the Universe?
Feb 23, 2023
Can the Parker solar probe shed light on the Sun?
Feb 21, 2023
What's the problem with the Standard Model?
Feb 16, 2023
The Science Fiction Universe of "A Half Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys
Feb 14, 2023
355 Days in Space: Finding Meaning with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei
Feb 14, 2023
What's the real speed limit of the Universe?
Feb 09, 2023
Listener Questions 35: Exomoons, black holes and math!
Feb 07, 2023
Does gravity make rainbows?
Feb 02, 2023
Why can't stars fuse Iron?
Jan 31, 2023
Does particle spin affect life on Earth?
Jan 26, 2023
What's going on with Przybylski's Star?
Jan 24, 2023
The Science of "For All Mankind"
Jan 19, 2023
Does anti-matter feel anti-gravity?
Jan 17, 2023
Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?
Jan 12, 2023
Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?
Jan 10, 2023
Listener Questions about light and black holes
Jan 05, 2023
How powerful could a civilization get?
Jan 03, 2023
What is quantized inertia?
Dec 29, 2022
Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?
Dec 27, 2022
The biggest collisions in the Universe
Dec 24, 2022
The science of time travel television
Dec 22, 2022
What is the Big Rip?
Dec 20, 2022
Could dark matter be a superfluid?
Dec 15, 2022
Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?
Dec 13, 2022
Is there a pattern to asteroid impacts on Earth?
Dec 08, 2022
What is a black hole eclipse?
Dec 06, 2022
What is the densest planet?
Dec 01, 2022
Does the Moon have an atmosphere?
Nov 29, 2022
How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?
Nov 24, 2022
Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids!
Nov 22, 2022
What are sterile neutrinos?
Nov 17, 2022
Why is math so important for physics?
Nov 15, 2022
How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?
Nov 10, 2022
Can you send messages without particles?
Nov 08, 2022
How do planets get rings?
Nov 03, 2022
Can you make matter out of pure electrons?
Nov 01, 2022
What are the most common elements in the Universe?
Oct 27, 2022
Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball
Oct 25, 2022
How dangerous is nuclear waste?
Oct 20, 2022
What's up with Iapetus?
Oct 18, 2022
Can you communicate with neutrinos?
Oct 13, 2022
The Science of "The Spare Man"
Oct 11, 2022
What's it like to be an alien?
Oct 06, 2022
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Oct 04, 2022
Why does physics even work?
Sep 29, 2022
What is negative temperature?
Sep 27, 2022
Is math the language of the Universe?
Sep 22, 2022
What are quantum glasses?
Sep 20, 2022
What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Sep 15, 2022
Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
Sep 13, 2022
What's inside a neutron star?
Sep 08, 2022
What's the amplituhedron?
Sep 06, 2022
Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?
Sep 01, 2022
If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?
Aug 30, 2022
Listener Questions about discoveries
Aug 25, 2022
Could there be two dimensions of time?
Aug 23, 2022
How long does a neutron live?
Aug 18, 2022
Can a gravitational wave pass through a black hole?
Aug 16, 2022
What is superdeterminism?
Aug 11, 2022
Is the speed of light the same in all directions?
Aug 09, 2022
Are black holes hot or not?
Aug 04, 2022
Listener Questions about aliens, black holes and white holes!
Aug 02, 2022
What is early dark energy?
Jul 28, 2022
What can slime molds teach us about dark matter?
Jul 26, 2022
What did the first JWST images reveal?
Jul 21, 2022
Why is momentum conserved?
Jul 19, 2022
What is laser fusion?
Jul 14, 2022
How do galaxies die?
Jul 12, 2022
What is a quark gluon plasma?
Jul 07, 2022
How do fireworks work?
Jul 05, 2022
What happens to event horizons when black holes collide?
Jun 30, 2022
Do photons bump into each other?
Jun 28, 2022
Listener Questions about Annihilation
Jun 23, 2022
What is Energy?
Jun 21, 2022
Could aliens teach us science?
Jun 16, 2022
Can the Earth survive when the Sun expands?
Jun 14, 2022
What will the next generation of space telescopes reveal?
Jun 09, 2022
Could the Universe be shaped like a donut?
Jun 07, 2022
Where is most of Earth's water?
Jun 02, 2022
What if gravity were much stronger?
May 31, 2022
Tech in the Great Outdoors
May 26, 2022
What does our black hole look like?
May 26, 2022
Is the whole Universe spinning?
May 24, 2022
What is a particle?
May 19, 2022
Can we defend the Earth from deadly space rocks?
May 17, 2022
What does the NICER telescope study?
May 12, 2022
Can we escape a black hole with a warp drive or wormhole?
May 10, 2022
Creature Feature: The Physics of Animal Color
May 07, 2022
Can the human eye see a single photon?
May 05, 2022
Introducing: Spyology Squad
May 04, 2022
What came first matter or energy?
May 03, 2022
What can neutrinos teach us about supernovas?
Apr 28, 2022
Is the W boson too massive?
Apr 26, 2022
Is nuclear power worth the risks?
Apr 21, 2022
The science fiction universe of "Lost in Space"
Apr 19, 2022
What are zombie stars?
Apr 14, 2022
What if the speed of light were slower?
Apr 11, 2022
Is it dangerous to send messages to aliens?
Apr 07, 2022
Are there particles that don't have anti-particles?
Apr 05, 2022
How big can a comet get?
Mar 31, 2022
What could aliens teach us about the Universe?
Mar 29, 2022
What will the new probes to Venus reveal?
Mar 24, 2022
Could we build a particle collider on the moon?
Mar 22, 2022
Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?
Mar 17, 2022
How to take over the world
Mar 15, 2022
Can we put black holes to work for us?
Mar 10, 2022
Why do stars twinkle?
Mar 08, 2022
What is dark radiation?
Mar 03, 2022
What is the future of exoplanet research?
Mar 01, 2022
Where does the Higgs get its mass?
Feb 24, 2022
Can you roast a marshmallow in space, and other listener questions.
Feb 22, 2022
Is there Uranium on Uranus?
Feb 17, 2022
Does the Universe have a preferred direction?
Feb 15, 2022
Why does the Higgs boson like Mexican hats?
Feb 10, 2022
Can we build a wormhole?
Feb 08, 2022
Listener questions about alien tech, the Earth's orbit and its future!
Feb 03, 2022
Is there an explanation for the Universe, or is it random?
Feb 01, 2022
The next revolution in theoretical physics
Jan 27, 2022
Could our galaxy have a dark matter center?
Jan 25, 2022
Could life have started much earlier in the Universe?
Jan 20, 2022
The mysterious phenomenon of turning sound into light
Jan 18, 2022
Do we know where dark matter is?
Jan 13, 2022
What's happening to the Hyades Cluster?
Jan 11, 2022
Why black holes are actually bright.
Jan 06, 2022
What happens when stars collide?
Jan 04, 2022
Did this particle cause the Big Bang?
Dec 30, 2021
What if the asteroid hadn't killed the dinosaurs?
Dec 28, 2021
Could quantum mechanics be deterministic?
Dec 23, 2021
What is Zodiacal Light?
Dec 21, 2021
Will starlink spoil astronomy?
Dec 16, 2021
Can something be both a conductor and insulator?
Dec 14, 2021
Did our Universe evolve?
Dec 09, 2021
How should we search for extra terrestrial intelligence?
Dec 07, 2021
Things that glow in the dark
Dec 02, 2021
Kids questions about the Universe!
Nov 30, 2021
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Nov 25, 2021
Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?
Nov 23, 2021
How to be a supervillain with physics.
Nov 18, 2021
How do we measure the speed of light?
Nov 16, 2021
Why do we think dark matter is made of particles?
Nov 11, 2021
How did exotic particles change the Universe?
Nov 09, 2021
What is Relational Quantum Mechanics?
Nov 04, 2021
Frequently Asked Listener Questions About the Universe!
Nov 02, 2021
Why does gravity slow down time?
Oct 28, 2021
How do you spot a wormhole?
Oct 26, 2021
Are black holes really black holes?
Oct 21, 2021
Are neutrinos hiding the dark matter?
Oct 19, 2021
Black Hole Questions!
Oct 14, 2021
What is a quantum eraser?
Oct 12, 2021
How many generations of stars will there be?
Oct 07, 2021
Is time pixelated?
Oct 05, 2021
What hidden symmetry is controlling the Universe?
Sep 30, 2021
Do fission reactors occur naturally?
Sep 28, 2021
Does the Universe need cause and effect?
Sep 23, 2021
Does the weak force attract or repel?
Sep 21, 2021
Is the Universe a hologram?
Sep 16, 2021
Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!
Sep 14, 2021
Can you be motionless in space?
Sep 09, 2021
Why don't we have electric airplanes?
Sep 07, 2021
What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
Sep 02, 2021
What is a space hurricane?
Aug 31, 2021
What's a proton made of?
Aug 26, 2021
What if our particles were different?
Aug 24, 2021
What is a light cone?
Aug 19, 2021
How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?
Aug 17, 2021
Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Aug 12, 2021
How many stars can a solar system have?
Aug 10, 2021
Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, antimatter stars and Jupiter-eating aliens!
Aug 05, 2021
Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?
Aug 03, 2021
How does a plasma thruster work?
Jul 29, 2021
Can you outrun a flash of light?
Jul 27, 2021
How were pulsars discovered?
Jul 22, 2021
The SF Universe of Cadwell Turnbull's "The Lesson"
Jul 20, 2021
What's the cosmic gravitational background?
Jul 15, 2021
What do the Navy UFO videos really mean?
Jul 13, 2021
Is infinity real or just mathematical?
Jul 08, 2021
How many moons does the Earth have?
Jul 06, 2021
Listener Questions: photon information, simulated Universes and Daniel's fantasy science budget
Jul 01, 2021
The SF Universe of Essa Hansen's novel "Nophek Gloss"
Jun 29, 2021
Is it possible to have a two-dimensional object?
Jun 24, 2021
Are there stars made of dark matter?
Jun 22, 2021
Where are all the medium-sized black holes?
Jun 17, 2021
How was the cosmic microwave background discovered?
Jun 15, 2021
How many Higgs bosons are there?
Jun 10, 2021
Where did the Earth's atmosphere come from?
Jun 08, 2021
What did we learn from the Arecibo Radio Telescope?
Jun 03, 2021
Why does measuring a quantum object change it?
Jun 01, 2021
Can there be life INSIDE a black hole?
May 27, 2021
Listener Questions: the expanding observable Universe, what it's like to be a photon and the age of the Universe
May 25, 2021
What is Frame Dragging?
May 20, 2021
Is space-based solar power realistic?
May 18, 2021
Does Mars Have a Liquid Center?
May 13, 2021
What's the most promising theory of EVERYTHING?
May 11, 2021
What's the most powerful volcano in the Solar System?
May 06, 2021
Can the Universe exist without space?
May 04, 2021
The Science Fiction Universe of SB Divya
Apr 29, 2021
Can brains spontaneously form in space?
Apr 27, 2021
Listener Questions: Black Holes, Dark Entropy and a Radio Free Zone!
Apr 22, 2021
Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?
Apr 20, 2021
Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?
Apr 15, 2021
Have we solved the black hole information paradox?
Apr 13, 2021
What's a Tesseract?
Apr 08, 2021
Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?
Apr 06, 2021
What's the heaviest stable element?
Apr 01, 2021
What's the Huge Large Quasar Group?
Mar 30, 2021
What is the Space Roar?
Mar 25, 2021
What was the pioneer anomaly?
Mar 23, 2021
The Science Finction Universe of Lindsay Ellis
Mar 18, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about black holes, antimatter stars and why the Universe exists!
Mar 16, 2021
Why does our Universe have a Cold Spot?
Mar 11, 2021
What are boson stars?
Mar 09, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the smell of space, the electroweak force and spotting distant aliens.
Mar 04, 2021
What are globular clusters?
Mar 02, 2021
What is a Quantum Dot?
Feb 25, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.
Feb 23, 2021
Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?
Feb 18, 2021
Can we build an invisibility cloak?
Feb 16, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking radiation, 5G networks and wireless phone chargers!
Feb 11, 2021
What's a Time Crystal?
Feb 09, 2021
What's the biggest star in the Universe?
Feb 04, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed time-like curves, force fields, and the lifetime of the Earth's magnetic field
Feb 02, 2021
How do we know the mass of stars?
Jan 28, 2021
Listener Questions 14: Black holes, aliens and zombies!
Jan 26, 2021
Can a planet be bigger than its star?
Jan 21, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about how to read science headlines, gravitational slingshots, lorentz symmetry and the speed of light!
Jan 19, 2021
Can we see planets in other galaxies?
Jan 14, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about a donut Universe, mirrors and black holes!
Jan 12, 2021
Why can’t we see quantum effects in everyday objects?
Jan 07, 2021
Is space filled with infinite energy?
Jan 05, 2021
Daniel answers Listener Questions about energy conservation, inflation and space dust!
Dec 31, 2020
How was radiation discovered?
Dec 29, 2020
Are there centaurs in outer space?
Dec 24, 2020
Is there matter that is not made of particles?
Dec 22, 2020
What will the DragonFly mission find on Titan?
Dec 17, 2020
What's the fastest spinning thing in the Universe?
Dec 15, 2020
Daniel answers Listener Questions about the size of the Universe, what's in intergalactic space and why gravity dominates the Universe.
Dec 10, 2020
Daniel answers Listener Questions about dark matter, black holes and particle colliders
Dec 08, 2020
What happened in the dark ages of the Universe?
Dec 03, 2020
Can you undress a black hole?
Dec 01, 2020
The Sticky Story of the Gluon's Discovery
Nov 26, 2020
What's it like to fall into a black hole?
Nov 24, 2020
Listener Questions 13: Space water, wormhole colliders and boxes of dark matter
Nov 19, 2020
The SF Universe of Max Barry
Nov 17, 2020
What's the Oldest Thing in the Universe?
Nov 12, 2020
The surprising shape of the Milky Way
Nov 10, 2020
How to land a robot on an asteroid
Nov 05, 2020
The mysterious sources of the Van Allen radiation belts
Nov 03, 2020
What if the Earth Stopped Spinning
Oct 29, 2020
The Quantum Physics of Solar Panels
Oct 27, 2020
A discounted dark matter discovery
Oct 22, 2020
Is all of space magnetized?
Oct 20, 2020
Is Energy Actually Conserved?
Oct 15, 2020
The SF Universes of Vandana Singh
Oct 13, 2020
Where do comets come from?
Oct 08, 2020
Will the ITER experiment make fusion feasible?
Oct 06, 2020
New discoveries in our cosmic neighborhood
Oct 01, 2020
How can we bring rocks back from Mars?
Sep 29, 2020
Can a black hole power a spaceship?
Sep 24, 2020
Is there life on Venus?
Sep 22, 2020
The most common listener questions!
Sep 17, 2020
The SF Multi-verse of Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sep 15, 2020
What would happen if dark matter and dark energy disappeared?
Sep 10, 2020
Elinor Wonders About the Universe
Sep 08, 2020
What is Bose Einstein Condensate
Sep 03, 2020
What is Mirror Matter?
Sep 01, 2020
The SF Universe of Dr. Karen Lords
Aug 27, 2020
Listener Questions 12: Higgs Bosons, Black holes and earthquakes!
Aug 25, 2020
How did we discover black holes?
Aug 20, 2020
What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?
Aug 18, 2020
Do protons live forever?
Aug 13, 2020
Special 200th episode!
Aug 11, 2020
Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?
Aug 06, 2020
How did supermassive black holes get so big?
Aug 04, 2020
The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment
Jul 30, 2020
Is dark matter hot?
Jul 28, 2020
How was the Higgs boson discovered?
Jul 23, 2020
What are quasi-particles
Jul 21, 2020
Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?
Jul 16, 2020
Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.
Jul 14, 2020
Does the Universe need dark matter?
Jul 09, 2020
Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?
Jul 07, 2020
Do black holes destroy information?
Jul 02, 2020
What is the axion?
Jun 30, 2020
The SF Universe of Alastair Reynolds "Revenger"
Jun 25, 2020
What are primordial black holes?
Jun 23, 2020
Is the impossible drive possible?
Jun 18, 2020
The long race for the top quark
Jun 16, 2020
Where in the solar system might we find life? (ft. Katie Goldin of Creature Features)
Jun 11, 2020
How do you navigate in deep space?
Jun 09, 2020
Can stars eat other stars?
Jun 04, 2020
Why are neutrinos so light?
Jun 02, 2020
Can we see the surface of exoplanets?
May 28, 2020
What is the real charge of the electron?
May 26, 2020
Could Jupiter turn into a star?
May 21, 2020
What are the basic constants of the Universe?
May 19, 2020
Listener Question 10: Particles, stars and universe-sized black holes!
May 14, 2020
Can Dark Matter feel itself
May 12, 2020
How do LEDs work?
May 07, 2020
Should we believe any alien abduction stories?
May 05, 2020
Does Stephen Wolfram's Theory of Everything Work?
Apr 30, 2020
The SF Universe of Sue Burke's "Semiosis"
Apr 28, 2020
Can planets lose their atmospheres?
Apr 23, 2020
What is the Cosmological Constant?
Apr 21, 2020
How quarks were discovered?
Apr 16, 2020
What is the tallest mountain in the solar system?
Apr 14, 2020
The SF Universe of Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Calculating Stars"
Apr 09, 2020
Could dark matter be made of quarks?
Apr 07, 2020
The SF Universe of Becky Chamber's "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet"
Apr 02, 2020
Listener Questions 9
Mar 31, 2020
What are virtual particles?
Mar 26, 2020
The SF Universe of Blake Crouch's "Recursion"
Mar 24, 2020
How small is an electron?
Mar 19, 2020
Why is strange matter so strange?
Mar 17, 2020
The science fiction universe of "Ancillary Justice"
Mar 12, 2020
What is the biggest explosion in the universe
Mar 10, 2020
Is it possible to move the sun?
Mar 05, 2020
Is the Universe infinite?
Mar 03, 2020
What have we learned from the Spitzer Space Telescope?
Feb 27, 2020
Choose your own physics adventure!
Feb 25, 2020
Can quantum gravity save physics?
Feb 20, 2020
Listener Questions 8: Can AI understand humor?
Feb 18, 2020
What causes the biggest explosions in the universe?
Feb 13, 2020
Are there planets without a star?
Feb 11, 2020
Can you slow down light?
Feb 06, 2020
What is the great attractor?
Feb 04, 2020
Can particles travel faster than light?
Jan 30, 2020
4 ways physics could end the world
Jan 28, 2020
Is Betelgeuse about to explode?
Jan 23, 2020
Why can quarks never be alone?
Jan 21, 2020
Is space filled with junk?
Jan 16, 2020
Why is the universe inflating?
Jan 14, 2020
What will the new space telescope reveal?
Jan 09, 2020
Why do some particles die?
Jan 07, 2020
Is the universe left-handed?
Jan 02, 2020
Can you destroy a black hole?
Dec 31, 2019
How does relativity affect our perception of time?
Dec 26, 2019
How was antimatter discovered?
Dec 24, 2019
What are cosmic strings?
Dec 19, 2019
What is quantum spacetime foam?
Dec 17, 2019
What are magnetic monopoles?
Dec 12, 2019
How fast is the universe blowing up?
Dec 10, 2019
Is there a fifth force of the universe?
Dec 05, 2019
Listener Questions 7
Dec 03, 2019
The mystery of the missing neutrinos
Nov 28, 2019
Where is the coldest place in the Universe?
Nov 26, 2019
Is our solar system weird?
Nov 21, 2019
Who ordered the muon?
Nov 19, 2019
Can science predict what you will do?
Nov 14, 2019
Is it possible to send messages faster than light using quantum entanglement?
Nov 12, 2019
Is there weather in space?
Nov 07, 2019
News from the Solar System
Nov 05, 2019
Journey to the Beginning of Time (featuring Dan Hooper)
Oct 31, 2019
What's in the asteroid belt?
Oct 29, 2019
Does Quantum Mechanics make sense?
Oct 24, 2019
Can we build a warp drive?
Oct 22, 2019
How do we know the photon is real?
Oct 17, 2019
Can you imagine a color you've never seen?
Oct 15, 2019
What is the cosmic microwave background?
Oct 10, 2019
Listener Questions 6
Oct 08, 2019
What are fermi bubbles?
Oct 03, 2019
How many stars can you see in the night sky with the naked eye?
Oct 01, 2019
What are fast radio bursts and what causes them?
Sep 26, 2019
The shocking mystery of lightning explained
Sep 24, 2019
Will the Higgs-Boson destroy the universe?
Sep 19, 2019
How to see pictures of dinosaurs (featuring XKCD creator Randall Munroe)
Sep 17, 2019
What is the physics behind skipping stones?
Sep 12, 2019
How do microwaves work?
Sep 10, 2019
What are Tardigrades?
Sep 05, 2019
What was the first particle ever discovered? And how was it discovered?
Sep 03, 2019
Why is half of the moon always hidden?
Aug 29, 2019
What is a graviton?
Aug 27, 2019
What would happen on earth if the moon disappeared?
Aug 22, 2019
Listener Questions 5
Aug 20, 2019
What would happen if the sun became a black hole?
Aug 15, 2019
What are white holes?
Aug 13, 2019
Take a cruise of the exoplanets
Aug 08, 2019
How old is the earth?
Aug 06, 2019
Do aliens exist?
Aug 01, 2019
Can you see an electron or other tiny particles?
Jul 30, 2019
What is the strongest magnet in the universe?
Jul 25, 2019
Why haven't aliens visited us?
Jul 23, 2019
What is the Weak Force?
Jul 18, 2019
What is Cold Fusion?
Jul 16, 2019
How do you make gold?
Jul 11, 2019
How do MRIs work?
Jul 09, 2019
What is the hexagon on saturn?
Jul 04, 2019
What is Quantum Tunneling?
Jul 02, 2019
Can you sail on light?
Jun 27, 2019
What is the densest thing in the universe?
Jun 25, 2019
What do Quarks taste like?
Jun 20, 2019
Listener Questions 4
Jun 18, 2019
What is the brightest thing in the universe?
Jun 13, 2019
Is the Earth round?
Jun 11, 2019
How can we see Dark Matter?
Jun 06, 2019
Listener Questions 3
Jun 04, 2019
What Is Radiation?
May 30, 2019
What Is the Hottest Thing In The Universe?
May 28, 2019
What Is A Dyson Sphere?
May 23, 2019
Bad Science Questions
May 21, 2019
What Is Quantum Spin?
May 16, 2019
What Is The Emptiest Place In The Universe?
May 14, 2019
What's In Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
May 09, 2019
Will A Gamma Ray Burst Kill You?
May 07, 2019
What's Inside The Earth?
May 02, 2019
How Does A Bicycle Balance?
Apr 30, 2019
Why Does Time Go Forwards?
Apr 25, 2019
What Is A Tachyon?
Apr 23, 2019
What is Supersymmetry?
Apr 18, 2019
Questions From The Zeitgeist (ft The Daily Zeitgeist hosts)
Apr 16, 2019
What Is A Space Elevator?
Apr 11, 2019
Can You See A Black Hole?
Apr 09, 2019
What Are The Weirdest Stars?
Apr 04, 2019
What's Under The Ice On Europa?
Apr 02, 2019
What's The Biggest "Thing" in The Universe?
Mar 28, 2019
Listener Questions 2.0
Mar 26, 2019
What Is A Superconductor?
Mar 21, 2019
What Was Oumuamua?
Mar 19, 2019
What Are Quantum Fields?
Mar 14, 2019
What Is Time Dilation?
Mar 12, 2019
Why Do We Have Stars?
Mar 07, 2019
How Does A Laser Work?
Mar 05, 2019
How Old Is The Universe?
Feb 28, 2019
What's At The Center Of The Galaxy?
Feb 26, 2019
Is Anti-Gravity Technology Possible?
Feb 21, 2019
Where Does The Earth's Magnetic Field Come From?
Feb 19, 2019
Are Wormholes Real?
Feb 14, 2019
What Is Terraforming?
Feb 12, 2019
What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean?
Feb 07, 2019
What Nobel Prizes Have Been Proven Wrong?
Feb 05, 2019
Is A New Particle Collider Worth $20B?
Jan 31, 2019
How Did The Moon Form?
Jan 29, 2019
What Are Cosmic Rays?
Jan 24, 2019
Is The Multiverse Real?
Jan 22, 2019
How Can We Tell The Distance To Stars?
Jan 17, 2019
What Is The Most Important Invention In Human History? (ft. Ryan North)
Jan 15, 2019
Listener Questions
Jan 10, 2019
What Is A Quantum Computer?
Jan 08, 2019
What Happens When Galaxies Collide?
Jan 03, 2019
Why Is Gravity So Weird?
Jan 01, 2019
Is the Universe pixelated?
Dec 27, 2018
Are there other Earths out there?
Dec 25, 2018
Was/Is There Life On Mars?
Dec 20, 2018
What Is String Theory?
Dec 18, 2018
Will Physics Ever Explain Everything?
Dec 13, 2018
What Is A Dimension And How Many Are There?
Dec 11, 2018
What is a Neutrino?
Dec 06, 2018
How Does a Nuclear Bomb Work?
Dec 04, 2018
Is Teleportation Possible?
Nov 29, 2018
Is the Universe Random?
Nov 27, 2018
Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
Nov 22, 2018
The Baby Universe (ft. Katie Mack)
Nov 20, 2018
Can We Travel Faster Than Light?
Nov 15, 2018
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Nov 13, 2018
Are there Aliens?
Nov 08, 2018
Is Anti-Matter a Real Thing?
Nov 06, 2018
How will the Universe die?
Nov 01, 2018
What is making the Universe explode?
Oct 30, 2018
Will an Asteroid Kill You?
Oct 25, 2018
What's Inside a Black Hole?
Oct 23, 2018
How Big is the Universe?
Oct 18, 2018
What's the smallest piece of matter? Is there one?
Oct 16, 2018
What is everything made of?
Oct 11, 2018
What are Gravitational Waves?
Oct 09, 2018
When will the Sun explode?
Oct 04, 2018
Is Time Travel Possible?
Oct 02, 2018
What came before the Big Bang?
Sep 27, 2018
Are we Living in a Simulation?
Sep 25, 2018
Is the Higgs Boson useful?
Sep 25, 2018
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe: Trailer
Sep 18, 2018