How do we defeat the dirt worms?
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
30 Jan 202547min
How did we tackle Trichinella?
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...
28 Jan 202546min
Can tardigrades survive on the Moon?
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 in...
23 Jan 202551min
Listener Questions #4
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about binary star seasons, meat wasps and freefall.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 Jan 202543min
What is post-quantum gravity?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Jonathan Oppenheim about his unusual theory of unpredictable gravitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
16 Jan 202551min
What is so beautiful about string theory?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Thomas Van Riet about how string theory unravels the puzzle of quantum gravity and whether math can be beautiful.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
14 Jan 20251h 1min
DKEU Listener Questions Volume #3
Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about soil on Mars, the double slit experiment, and adaptations for surviving on the Red Planet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9 Jan 20251h 9min
Familes in space
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
7 Jan 202554min
