Unexpected Elements

A podcast by BBC World Service - Fridays

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237 Episodes

  1. Ancient warmth in Greenland

    Published: 12/11/2022
  2. COVID spreads in China

    Published: 12/4/2022
  3. A distant planet’s atmosphere

    Published: 11/27/2022
  4. Online harassment of Covid scientists

    Published: 11/20/2022
  5. Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

    Published: 11/13/2022
  6. What peat can tell us about our future

    Published: 11/6/2022
  7. Seismic events on Mars

    Published: 10/30/2022
  8. The most powerful explosion ever recorded

    Published: 10/23/2022
  9. Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

    Published: 10/16/2022
  10. Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

    Published: 10/9/2022
  11. The final moments of DART

    Published: 10/1/2022
  12. Should we mine the deep sea?

    Published: 9/24/2022
  13. Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

    Published: 9/18/2022
  14. The genetics of human intelligence

    Published: 9/11/2022
  15. The China Heatwave and the New Normal

    Published: 9/4/2022
  16. Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed

    Published: 8/28/2022
  17. Deadly drought

    Published: 8/20/2022
  18. Icelandic volcano erupts again

    Published: 8/14/2022
  19. Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

    Published: 8/7/2022
  20. The first galaxies at the universe's dawn

    Published: 7/30/2022

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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.