Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moo...
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On the show
- Dr. Katrine Whiteson3 eps
- Dr. Benjamin de Bivort1 ep
- Dr. Matt Giorgianni1 ep
Also: Dr. Steve Brusatte, Dr. Andrew Thaler, Dr. Scott Egan, Dr. Chelsea Wood, Dr. John Hutchinson, Zach, Dr. Marcelo Wood, Dr. Manuel Lerdau
Audience Interest
- science topics and discoveries
- universe and space exploration
Podcast Focus
- in-depth science explanations
- fun and easy-to-understand
Publishing Consistency
- 801 episodes produced
- active for 7 years
Insights are generated by CastFox AI using publicly available data, episode content, and proprietary models.
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Brands & references
Total monthly reach
Based on 1 signal.
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- 🇺🇸United States · Natural SciencesHOME#51.2M to 6.4M
- 🇮🇳India · Natural Sciences#2141K to 748K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Natural Sciences#4105K to 555K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Natural Sciences#467K to 357K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Natural Sciences#635K to 184K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
1.9M to 9.8M🎙 Daily cadence·842 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
6.2M to 33M🇺🇸66%🇮🇳8%🇬🇧6%+11 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
3.4M to 18M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/29/26 | Can you entangle three particles? | Daniel and Kelly explain how triplets of particles can be entangled, and how it allows for a smoking-gun proof of quantum mechanics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 50m 13s | ||||||
| 10/27/26 | Listener Questions #54 | Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about algal blooms in the Reflecting Pool, the difference between memory and consciousness, and banana slugs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 46m 48s | ||||||
| 10/22/26 | Science conspiracy theories (featuring Dr. Phil Plait) | Daniel and Kelly are joined by Phil Plait to explore conspiracy theories about the end of the world, demons at CERN, and the face on Mars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 1h 05m 22s | ||||||
| 10/20/26 | Sleuth-Hound (featuring Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris) | Daniel and Kelly interview Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 56m 09s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 | Listener questions #53 | Daniel and Kelly talk about how particles are detected, the heavy proton discovery, and de Sitter space.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 40m 53s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 | How did syphilis get to Europe? | Daniel and Kelly dive into the history of medicine. Syphilis arrived with a bang in Europe in 1493, but where did it come from?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 43m 38s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 | What if dark matter is more complicated? | Daniel and Kelly talk about a particularly quirky theory of dark matter that Daniel is searching for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 44m 24s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 | Listener Questions #52 | Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about how AI is impacting math and physics, what we really know about the wood wide web, and what happens when matter annihilates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 48m 00s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 | What is creativity? (featuring Dr. Moiya McTier) | Daniel and Kelly interview Dr. Moiya McTier about how we define and measure creativity, and the impacts of the modern world on creative pursuits. Check out her new book, Mothers of Invention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 54m 16s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 | Supervoids | Daniel and Kelly explore the structure of the Universe and examine its emptiest places, making no effort to spare the scatological humor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 48m 25s | ||||||
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| 9/24/26 | Listener Questions #51 | Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about special relativity, organisms that eat plastic, and whether the future is already determined.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 48m 55s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 | Do Animals Make Mistakes? (featuring Dr. Andy Sih) | Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Andy Sih about the kinds of mistakes wild animals make, and why they make them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 1h 00m 47s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 | Did we just discover dark matter? | Daniel and Kelly talk about the recent observation of a dark matter candidateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 52m 25s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 | Listener Questions #50 | Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about scent dialects, drilling through the ice above the oceans of Enceladus, and why some animals have penises.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 51m 16s | ||||||
| 9/10/26 | addictionbrain science+3 | Dr. Marcelo Wood | iHeartPodcasts | — | addictionbrain+4 | — | 57m 42s | ||
| 9/8/26 | dark energyexpansion of the Universe+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | dark energyexpansion+4 | — | 55m 18s | ||
| 9/3/26 | Big Bang alternativesscurvy+3 | — | scurvyiHeartPodcasts | — | Big Bangscurvy+3 | — | 51m 44s | ||
| 9/1/26 | conservationrewilding+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | rewildingconservation+3 | — | 1h 02m 01s | ||
| 8/27/26 | simulationuniverse+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | simulationuniverse+3 | — | 54m 16s | ||
| 8/25/26 | listener questionscrackpots+2 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | listener questionscrackpots+3 | — | 49m 18s | ||
| 8/20/26 | origins of lifedefinitions of life+3 | Dr. Katrine Whiteson | iHeartPodcasts | — | origins of lifedefinitions of life+3 | — | 54m 50s | ||
| 8/18/26 | government secrecyaliens+3 | — | Disclosure Day | — | aliensgovernment+3 | — | 56m 06s | ||
| 8/13/26 | toxic plantsseed germination+3 | Dr. Manuel Lerdau | iHeartPodcasts | — | toxic plantsseed germination+3 | — | 1h 09m 51s | ||
| 8/11/26 | chemical rocketsspace exploration+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | chemical rocketsspace travel+3 | — | 48m 40s | ||
| 8/6/26 | Cyclospora (and other diarrhea-inducing parasites) | It's July 2026, and the United States is dealing with an outbreak of cyclospora. Diarrhea makes people think of Kelly, so today we're dealing with the many questions Kelly has gotten about parasites in our food supplies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 58m 59s | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | nematode parasiterat lungworm+3 | Dr. Chelsea Wood | iHeartPodcastsRat lungworm | — | rat lungwormnematode+5 | — | 53m 25s | ||
| 7/16/26 | dark matterphysics+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | dark matterfudge factor+3 | — | 57m 25s | ||
| 7/14/26 | animal speedanimal growth+3 | Dr. John Hutchinson | iHeartPodcasts | — | animal speedanimal growth+3 | — | 57m 14s | ||
| 7/9/26 | licehuman evolution+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | licehuman evolution+3 | — | 53m 23s | ||
| 7/7/26 | alienssatellites+3 | — | peer-reviewed science papers | — | alienssatellites+3 | — | 53m 32s | ||
| 7/2/26 | ethanolsaltwater+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | ethanolsaltwater+4 | — | 1h 02m 23s | ||
| 6/30/26 | bathingmicrobiome+3 | Dr. Katrine Whiteson | iHeartPodcasts | — | bathingmicrobiome+3 | — | 55m 08s | ||
| 6/25/26 | early universeunified forces+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | early universeunified force+3 | — | 59m 07s | ||
| 6/23/26 | artscience communication+3 | Zach | iHeartPodcasts | — | artscience communication+3 | — | 55m 50s | ||
| 6/18/26 | social amoebaaltruism+3 | — | iHeartPodcastsThe curious lives of social amoeba | — | social amoebaaltruism+3 | — | 54m 59s | ||
| 6/11/26 | earthwormsgalaxy origins+3 | — | — | earthwormsgalaxy+1 | earthwormsgalaxy+3 | — | 53m 48s | ||
| 6/9/26 | speciesbiology+3 | Dr. Scott Egan | iHeartPodcasts | — | speciesbiology+3 | — | 1h 05m 21s | ||
| 6/4/26 | solar systemTychonic model+3 | — | Tychonic modelCopernican model | — | Tychonic modelCopernican model+3 | — | 49m 41s | ||
| 6/2/26 | relativistic paradoxesparasitoid wasp viruses+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | relativistic paradoxesparasitoid wasp+4 | — | 52m 15s | ||
| 5/28/26 | domesticationraccoons+3 | — | iHeartPodcastsAre rural raccoons becoming domesticated? | rural | raccoonsdomestication+3 | — | 56m 52s | ||
| 5/26/26 | quantum contextualitymeasurements+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | quantum contextualitymeasurements+3 | — | 51m 14s | ||
| 5/21/26 | muscle memorywater-less showers+1 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | muscle memorywater-less showers+3 | — | 1h 00m 09s | ||
| 5/19/26 | deep seabedmarine life+3 | Dr. Andrew Thaler | iHeartPodcasts | — | deep seabedmarine biodiversity+3 | — | 1h 15m 54s | ||
| 5/14/26 | signal jammingcommunication+1 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | signalsjammed+3 | — | 49m 01s | ||
| 5/12/26 | aliensintelligence+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | aliensEarth+3 | — | 1h 01m 49s | ||
| 5/7/26 | parasiteslife cycles+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | parasite life cycleshost species+3 | — | 59m 03s | ||
| 5/5/26 | quantum vacuumzero point energy+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | zero point energyquantum vacuum+3 | — | 52m 19s | ||
| 4/30/26 | fetal developmentcell function+3 | — | iHeartPodcasts | — | cellsfetus+5 | — | 56m 11s | ||
| 4/28/26 | birdsdinosaurs+3 | Dr. Steve Brusatte | The Story of Birds | Earth | birdsdinosaurs+5 | — | 1h 07m 01s | ||
| 4/23/26 | AI in physicsfuture of discoveries+3 | — | iHeartPodcastsWill AI solve physics? | — | AIphysics+3 | — | 57m 19s | ||
| 4/21/26 | particle physicscell biology+3 | — | Odderon particlesLangerhans cells+2 | — | Odderon particlesLangerhans cells+3 | — | 42m 50s | ||
| 4/16/26 | biofilmsmicrobiology+3 | Dr. Katrine Whiteson | KombuchaNature+2 | Bobtail Squid | biofilmsmicrobiology+6 | — | 57m 34s | ||
| 4/14/26 | science fictiontechnology+3 | — | science fiction | — | science fictiontechnology+3 | — | 50m 06s | ||
| 4/9/26 | geneticsinnate behaviors+3 | Dr. Benjamin de Bivort | iHeartPodcasts | — | geneticsinnate behaviors+3 | — | 1h 17m 01s | ||
| 4/7/26 | venomsnake evolution+3 | Dr. Matt Giorgianni | iHeartPodcasts | — | snake venomoctopus+3 | — | 1h 05m 29s | ||
| 4/2/26 | consciousnessquantum processes+3 | — | PenroseOrchestrated Objective Reduction Theory | — | consciousnessquantum processes+3 | — | 54m 16s | ||
| 3/31/26 | morning fogbats+3 | — | iHeartPodcastscauchy horizon | — | morning fogbats+3 | — | 48m 25s | ||
| 3/26/26 | choleraVibrio cholerae+3 | — | Vibrio choleraeiHeartPodcasts | — | choleraVibrio cholerae+4 | — | 47m 04s | ||
| 3/24/26 | history of medicinecholera+3 | — | germ theoryiHeartPodcasts | — | choleraJohn Snow+3 | — | 58m 35s | ||
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Distribution & Reach
About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Distribution & Reach
About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Key insights
What the show covers
- in-depth science explanations
- fun and easy-to-understand
- variety of scientific topics
- engaging discussions about the universe
Audience interests
- science topics and discoveries
- universe and space exploration
- ecosystems and life forms
- particles and physics concepts
Platform reach
- no platforms detected yet
- unknown distribution channels
- potential for broad audience
- limited visibility currently
Publishing consistency
- 801 episodes produced
- active for 7 years
- weekly or more often
- consistent content delivery
Chart history for Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Peaked at #1 in HU, top 10 in 31 of 50 tracked markets, currently #1 in HU.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| PT | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| India | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| Denmark | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| GR | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| Canada | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| SG | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| TH | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| United States | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| Finland | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| IS | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| VN | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| Australia | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| Sweden | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| PL | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| IL | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| ID | — | #6 | #6 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 46 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 46 markets.