Unexpected Elements Episodes Episode guide
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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces
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Wildfires and wild animals
Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.
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Collapsing pensions and civilisations
French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies
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Migrate ideas
The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour supporting AI
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Signals, seaweed and space
The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity.
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Co-operation and cohesion
Social cohesion, cellular cohesion and glue. Science stories inspired by election news
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Coronation exploration
Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects?
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.
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Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing?
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Drought worsens in East Africa
Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.
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CRISPR & bioethics
He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake
Turkey鈥檚 most powerful earthquake on record
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Science on ice
The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moons
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain
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Climate science activism
What happens when climate scientists take to the streets?
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Atmospheric rivers
The phenomenon driving California鈥檚 extreme weather
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
We take a look at everything we鈥檝e learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.
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The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
NASA's James Webb Telescope: science in the images
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Mosquito pesticide failing
Mosquito pesticide failing
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Fusion milestone
Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines
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Ancient warmth in Greenland
Climate change in the Arctic
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COVID spreads in China
COVID spreads in China
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A distant planet鈥檚 atmosphere
A distant planet's atmosphere
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats.
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified.
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What peat can tell us about our future
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
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Seismic events on Mars
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars鈥� origin and evolution.
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
