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Can you communicate with neutrinos?
Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.
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3 years, 5 months ago
The Science of "The Spare Man"
Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man"
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3 years, 5 months ago
What's it like to be an alien?
Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate.
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3 years, 5 months ago
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.
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3 years, 5 months ago
Why does physics even work?
Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.
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3 years, 6 months ago
What is negative temperature?
Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!
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3 years, 6 months ago
Is math the language of the Universe?
Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.
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3 years, 6 months ago
What are quantum glasses?
Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.
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3 years, 6 months ago
What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins.
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3 years, 6 months ago
Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler!
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3 years, 6 months ago