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)
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
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Loosening lockdown
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
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Presidents and pandemics
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Italy, getting Covid 19 under control
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The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee c...
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
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The science of social distancing
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
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Tracking coronavirus spread
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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
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Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus
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Wuhan Coronavirus
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Mount Taal volcano
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Australia’s extreme fire season
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Adapting California
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Gaming climate change
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
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White Island volcano eruption
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
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New Malaria target
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
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Australia burning
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Climate in crisis
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Wildfires and winds in California
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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
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Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment
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From batteries to distant worlds
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Global climate inaction
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South East Asia choking - again
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Embryoids from stem cells
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
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Nanotube computer says hello
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
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The birth of a new volcano
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