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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Youngest rock samples from the moon
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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
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New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats
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Ebola can remain dormant for five years
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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
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Methane - a climate solution?
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Record-shattering weather
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Insects in incredible detail
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Nyiragongo Eruption
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Robot revolution
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Covid and clean air
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Africa’s oldest burial
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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
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Waste not, want not
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Weird weather
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Perseverance approaches Mars
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Mixing Covid vaccines
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Saving the Northern White Rhino
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Gravitational waves and black holes
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New variants of SARS-Cov2
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Coping with Covid
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2021 the year of variants
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A year with Covid -19
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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
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Freak weather getting even freakier
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
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Covid-19 defeats US Marines
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
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Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
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Covid -19 mortality
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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
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Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
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Malaria resistance breakthrough
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Covid -19 science versus politics
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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
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Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
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Trouble in Greenland
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
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Covid-19 and children
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
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