Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Kelly look for ways that mysteries of antimatter could shed light on the mysteries of dark matter

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Daniel and Kelly talk about whether the Universe ever put a ring on the Earth

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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about chain reactions in space, the chemistry of life, and how a theory is accepted.

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Daniel and Kelly break down what it means for particles to have charge, and how that translates to charges for the weak force

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

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

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