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)
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
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The final moments of DART
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Should we mine the deep sea?
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
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The genetics of human intelligence
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The China Heatwave and the New Normal
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
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Deadly drought
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
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Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
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The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
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Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
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Long Covid ‘brain fog’
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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
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Monster microbe
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Thirty years after the Earth Summit
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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
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Heat death by volcano and other stories
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Death in the rainforest
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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
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Tsunami detective in Tonga
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Radioactive Red Forest
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Covid in the sewers
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Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
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Covid -19 origins
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Reforming the 'China Initiative'
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
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Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
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The roots of Long Covid
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
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CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?
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Omicron – mild or monster?
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Omicron’s rapid replication rate
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Can the weather trigger a volcano?
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Omicron, racism and trust
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Deliberately doomed dart
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The end for coal power?
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Bambi got Covid
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Jet fuel from thin air
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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
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Wetlands under attack
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