Unexpected Elements

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237 Episodes

  1. Reforming the 'China Initiative'

    Published: 2/27/2022
  2. Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology

    Published: 2/20/2022
  3. Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab

    Published: 2/13/2022
  4. Identifying a more infectious HIV variant

    Published: 2/6/2022
  5. The roots of Long Covid

    Published: 1/30/2022
  6. Tonga eruption – how it happened

    Published: 1/23/2022
  7. Have we got it wrong on Omicron?

    Published: 1/16/2022
  8. CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?

    Published: 1/9/2022
  9. Omicron – mild or monster?

    Published: 12/26/2021
  10. Omicron’s rapid replication rate

    Published: 12/19/2021
  11. Can the weather trigger a volcano?

    Published: 12/12/2021
  12. Omicron, racism and trust

    Published: 12/5/2021
  13. Deliberately doomed dart

    Published: 11/28/2021
  14. The end for coal power?

    Published: 11/21/2021
  15. Bambi got Covid

    Published: 11/14/2021
  16. Jet fuel from thin air

    Published: 11/7/2021
  17. Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?

    Published: 10/31/2021
  18. Red blood cells’ surprising immune function

    Published: 10/24/2021
  19. Wetlands under attack

    Published: 10/15/2021
  20. Youngest rock samples from the moon

    Published: 10/10/2021

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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.