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Unexpected Elements Episodes

  1. Death of Granny whale

    The world's oldest known killer whale is presumed dead, at an estimated age of 100 years.

  2. Star Trek - The Undiscovered Future

    The inspiring vision of society and space exploration - what happened?

  3. Cooling the Brain Saves Lives

    The largest ever review of 鈥渂rain cooling鈥� studies

  4. Three Parent Babies

    Babies made from two women and one man have been approved by the UK's fertility regulator

  5. Synthetic Biology Solutions for Diabetes

    Could synthetic cells be used to cure type 1 diabetes?

  6. Alzheimer鈥檚 Research Drug Failure

    Hoped for breakthrough in treating of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease dashed with a dug trial failure

  7. Predator Bacteria Therapy

    Can we use predatory bacteria as treatments for antibiotic resistant infections?

  8. Dinosaur Extinction Crater Probed

    Exciting geology of Chicxulub crater

  9. Sounds and Meaning Across World's Languages

    Research surveying the meaning and sounds of words across 6,000 languages across the world

  10. Italian Earthquakes

    Latest Italian earthquakes are part of a sequence

  11. Wolbachia to Eliminate Dengue

    Trials using Wolbachia to control mosquito-transmitted diseases

  12. Our Genetic Future

    Research at The Francis Crick Institute

  13. Drilling the 鈥楧inosaur Crater鈥�

    Scientists have been examining rock drilled from the Chicxulub Crater

  14. Nobel Prizes for 2016

    This week the Nobel Prizes for 2016 were announced

  15. Space Mission鈥檚 Comet Crash

    The Rosetta probe sends its final pictures after a crash landing

  16. New Global Health Check

    Iceland and Singapore top new global health ranking with Syria and South Sudan bottom

  17. Gaia Galaxy Census

    What has space camera Gaia has been up to in its first 1,000 days in space?

  18. Floods and Border Politics

    How a lack of cross border information is worsening flood damage in Asia

  19. What's the Future for Gravitational Wave Detection?

    As astronomers meet in Paris, what's the future for gravitational wave detection?

  20. Earth-sized Planet Found

    Neighbouring star Proxima Centauri has Earth-sized planet

  21. Fighting Poverty with Data

    Machine learning algorithms measure and target poverty

  22. Nerve Recovery in Brain Machine Interface Patients

    Paraplegic patients using robotic legs and training on a BMI showed some nerve recovery

  23. Sun-tracking Sunflowers

    How do sunflowers know when the sun comes up?

  24. Drug Abuse in Athletes

    Detecting drug abuse in athletes

  25. Smashing into the Moon

    Space ballistics explain one of the Moon鈥檚 huge craters

  26. Wildfires

    Wildfires 鈥� what can science tell us about them?

  27. Juno Arrives

    Nasa鈥檚 Juno Probe arrives at Jupiter

  28. Juno Space Mission Approaches Jupiter

    Nasa鈥檚 Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on 4th July

  29. Oldest Antarctic Ice Found

    Million year old ice found under metre-thick debris layer in Antarctica

  30. Gravitational Waves

    New discovery of gravitational waves

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