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Unexpected Elements Episodes

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    Thirty years after the Earth Summit

    Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?

  2. Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

    Science news and highlights of the week

  3. Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

    Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.

  4. Heat death by volcano and other stories

    New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed

  5. Death in the rainforest

    Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years

  6. Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart

    Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy

  7. Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

    Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century

  8. The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave

    The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?

  9. Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

    Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

  10. How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression

    Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression

  11. Tsunami detective in Tonga

    What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?

  12. Radioactive Red Forest

    Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?

  13. Covid in the sewers

    Could novel forms of the virus be lurking in wastewater?

  14. Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?

    The territory is experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths

  15. Covid -19 origins

    New analysis shows where inside the Wuhan market the virus first showed itself.

  16. Reforming the 'China Initiative'

    US scheme accused of persecuting scientists is to be refocused

  17. Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology

    Messenger RNA used in vaccines against Covid-19 has been used to encourage bone healing

  18. Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab

    The inside story of Wuhan’s coronavirus lab,

  19. Identifying a more infectious HIV variant

    A new form of HIV has been uncovered in the Netherlands.

  20. The roots of Long Covid

    Detecting the early signals for long Covid

  21. Tonga eruption – how it happened

    Why a small volcanic eruption had a global impact

  22. Have we got it wrong on Omicron?

    It seems to be no more viable than the earlier delta variant

  23. CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?

    Could a cheap and conventional vaccine for Coivd19 end the pandemic?

  24. 2021 the year of variants

    The year began with Alpha and ends with Omicron, what have we learnt?

  25. Omicron – mild or monster?

    Cases of the latest coronavirus variant are mild, so far – but that’s not the whole story

  26. Omicron’s rapid replication rate

    Omicron replicates seventy times faster than earlier variants.

  27. Can the weather trigger a volcano?

    The eruption of Semeru in Java was linked to heavy rain

  28. Omicron, racism and trust

    How the global political response to the new variant is hampering science in Africa

  29. Deliberately doomed dart

    The sacrificial space mission designed to protect the Earth from asteroid impact.

  30. The end for coal power?

    The fossil fuel is on target to be replaced with renewables in both India and China.

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