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The science of Santa

The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!

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Festive trash talk

December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk

• 49 mins

(Re)New Year

New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science

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Scientist spotlight

Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.

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Circles, circumferences and Covid

From ancient Earth measurements to viral cycles and the science of friendly limits

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Keep it clean

A whole bathtub of science, from brains cleaning themselves to how space keeps sparkling

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Snake science

The Unexpected Elements team are talking all things snakes!

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All by myself

The Unexpected Elements team are discussing isolation.

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Let’s talk about love

Dig into the science of love from monogamous rodents to AI chatbots and compatibility

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

The Unexpected Elements team are going supersized.

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Topsy turvy

An upturned caravan has everyone baffled in Western France, time for a scientific shakeup

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Silent science

An album produced by musical legends contains just silence, is there any science to it?

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The fast and the curious

The Unexpected Elements team takes a whistlestop tour of all things fast!

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What’s that smell?

We sniff out stories about death, lies, cinema and COVID...

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Don’t be a fool!

Your one stop shop for scientific pranking this April Fools’ Day!

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Oh, Rats!

Can we make the case for remarkable rats, or are they just rubbish?

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Navigating northward

The Northern lights have us wondering how to go north (and other unexpected directions).

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An eggciting episode

The Christian celebration of Easter got us thinking about egg-related science.

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Kenya believe it?

The Unexpected Elements team visits Nairobi, Kenya.

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In memoriam

The death of the Pope inspired Unexpected Elements to look at the science of loss

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Ant antics

A Kenyan court sentenced four men for ant smuggling, so we’re getting into ant antics!

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Enduring it all

We're looking at the science that helps you put one foot in front of the other.

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Story time

The news you know, the science you don't

• 50 mins

Mission unexpectedly possible

Turning lead into gold, talking to animals and time travel seem impossible but are they?

• 51 mins

Gaming-inspired science

The Nintendo Switch 2 has sent us on a supersonic spin into gaming-related science

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Defuse and diffuse

World War II bombs were defused in Cologne, Germany, so we’re exploring diffusion science

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Some really cool science

This week, ice hockey’s Stanley Cup sent us skating into ice-related science

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A roarsome episode

This week, a brand-new dinosaur sent us on a palaeontological stomp.

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