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Unexpected Elements Episodes

  1. Cryovolcanoes on Pluto

    The New Horizons mission to Pluto show possible volcanic-type structures made from ice

  2. What Does Rest Mean to You?

    A global survey on rest, the Rest Test is launched

  3. How Sound Waves Lift Objects

    Researchers have built the first sonic tractor beam that lifts objects using sound waves

  4. Atlantic Seabed Drilling

    RRS James Cook sails on Monday carrying teams of scientists and 100 tonnes of equipment

  5. Back to the Future

    Film fans across the world are building up to Back to the Future Day

  6. Ancient African Genome

    Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull discovered in Ethiopia

  7. Flowing Water on Mars

    Science news and highlights of the week

  8. Rigging Car Emission Tests

    VW admits that more than 11m cars could be affected by rigging emission tests in the US

  9. New Pictures of Pluto

    Pluto鈥檚 glaciers, weird ice dunes and chaotic mountains.

  10. New Human-like Species Discovered

    The Rising Star cave system in South Africa has yielded a haul of early human bones.

  11. Global Tree Count Growing

    There is a global increase in trees

  12. Genetics of Obesity

    Can we switch obesity off with the flick of a genetic switch?

  13. Brain in a Dish

    Scientists claim to have grown an almost fully-formed human brain for the first time.

  14. Invasive Species from the Suez Canal

    Ecological alarm at invasive species entering the extended Suez Canal.

  15. Nepal-India Earthquake Risk

    Increased risk of a future major earthquake in an area that straddles Nepal and India

  16. Lessons from Hunting Cecil the Lion

    The issues surrounding hunting from population control, to poaching and for sport

  17. Earth 2.0

    Planets from the Kepler telescope include a world sharing many characteristics of Earth.

  18. Pluto Special

    Horizons mission to Pluto, new feathered dinosaur from China, and rats in Flintstone car

  19. Global Warming and the Arctic Tundra

    How global warming is affecting Arctic tundra and how it could be adding to the problem

  20. GM Wheat Trial Failure

    GM wheat trial has been ineffective at repelling aphids in the outdoor trial

  21. Diet in India

    The Indian slum children who eat too much junk food

  22. Ivory Forensics Detect Africa Poaching Hotspots

    Elephant poaching is on the rise in two main hotspots - Tanzania and Mozambique

  23. Alcohol Drinking in Wild Chimpanzees

    Wild chimpanzees partial to alcohol drinking a new study shows

  24. Global Warming Pause - Is It Valid?

    Global surface temperature data disputes the reported global warming slowdown or pause.

  25. Ageing Secrets of the Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur

    Broken robots which can soldier on. Positive stories of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

  26. El Nino

    El Nino is a weather event that happens every five years yet it is hard to predict

  27. Gene Seasonality

    Gene expression changes with the seasons

  28. The Destructive Power of the Nepalese Earthquake

    Seismologists report on the unusual shaking during the Nepalese earthquake

  29. Nepal earthquake

    Nepal earthquake devastation

  30. Artemisinin Resistant Malaria in Africa

    Malaria resistant to artemisinin drug found in Kenya

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