Unexpected Elements
The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.
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Episodes (343)
Scary science
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Fashion to dye for
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Putting Madonna to the test
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How bedbugs took over the world
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Complete shutdown
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How inflation affects the entire cosmos
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Can technology read our mind?
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Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days
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Zombies, cows and coups
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Protecting the Moon
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The man who couldn’t lie
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Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option
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Some of our universe is missing
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The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
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Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
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Barbie in Space
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Nato and the left-handed universe
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Unexpected elements on the sea bed
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Predictions from the sky and murderous fish
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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
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Wildfires and wild animals
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Collapsing pensions and civilisations
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Migrate ideas
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Signals, seaweed and space
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Co-operation and cohesion
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Coronation exploration
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
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Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
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Drought worsens in East Africa
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
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CRISPR & bioethics
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Turkey-Syria earthquake
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Science on ice
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
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Climate science activism
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Atmospheric rivers
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
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The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
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Mosquito pesticide failing
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Fusion milestone
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Ancient warmth in Greenland
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COVID spreads in China
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A distant planet’s atmosphere
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
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What peat can tell us about our future
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Seismic events on Mars
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
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