Unexpected Elements

A podcast by BBC World Service - Fridays

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237 Episodes

  1. Wildfires and wild animals

    Published: 6/15/2023
  2. Collapsing pensions and civilisations

    Published: 6/8/2023
  3. Migrate ideas

    Published: 6/1/2023
  4. Signals, seaweed and space

    Published: 5/25/2023
  5. Co-operation and cohesion

    Published: 5/18/2023
  6. Coronation exploration

    Published: 5/11/2023
  7. Return of Cyclone Freddy

    Published: 3/19/2023
  8. Human genome editing: Promise and Peril

    Published: 3/12/2023
  9. Drought worsens in East Africa

    Published: 3/5/2023
  10. Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

    Published: 2/26/2023
  11. CRISPR & bioethics

    Published: 2/19/2023
  12. Turkey-Syria earthquake

    Published: 2/11/2023
  13. Science on ice

    Published: 2/5/2023
  14. Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

    Published: 1/29/2023
  15. Climate science activism

    Published: 1/22/2023
  16. Atmospheric rivers

    Published: 1/15/2023
  17. One year on from the Tonga eruption

    Published: 1/8/2023
  18. The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months

    Published: 1/1/2023
  19. Mosquito pesticide failing

    Published: 12/25/2022
  20. Fusion milestone

    Published: 12/18/2022

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The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.