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Unexpected Elements — 335 episodes
A scientific odyssey
Everyone needs a hero
Stuck in a cycle
Dividing lines
Anyone for chips?
The beautiful game
Science bears fruit
Celebrating science on Africa Day
Unexpected enhancements
Hantavirus outbreak and what’s in a name
One hundred years of Sir David Attenborough
The soaring price of condoms
Chernobyl: 40 years later
The ribbiting science of frogs
Is everyone accounted for?
Putting science on the map
A bumper edition
In the name of science
Out for blood
The colour of science
A sweet treat
Seeing double
Are you lucky?
Let the games begin
Are you still with us?
Banging the science drum
Science down under
Science of the future
An episode inspired by our listeners
The gift of science
Why are we sad when television series end?
Chicken, with a side order of science
Some bear-y interesting space science
The unexpected science behind Klimt's artwork
Some Beautiful Science
A keg of beer-based science
A storm of science
A science heist
How does biometric data work?
Why are gold prices so high?
The strongest stuff in the Universe
Science inspired by Taylor Swift
Two-hundred years of trains
Pirate science ahoy!
Some dam awesome science
Punk rock science
Where do beaches come from?
Mountains of overtourism
Why do we follow trends?
Floods, mangroves and rampaging tractors
Traffic science
Trailer: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
The science of ageing
How dust affects the world
Sharks, albatrosses, the Jaws theme and fishing
Cargo ships, chemical spills and caribou
A roarsome episode
Some really cool science
Defuse and diffuse
Gaming-inspired science
Mission unexpectedly possible
Story time
Enduring it all
Ant antics
In memoriam
Kenya believe it?
An eggciting episode
Navigating northward
Oh, Rats!
Don’t be a fool!
What’s that smell?
The fast and the curious
Silent science
Topsy turvy
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Let’s talk about love
All by myself
Snake science
Keep it clean
Circles, circumferences and Covid
Scientist spotlight
(Re)New Year
Festive trash talk
The science of Santa
Totally bananas
Going home
Doing a deal
Super Science
Are you not entertained?
Supermassive numbers
The Swing of Things
Mystery blobs
TV made me do it
The world's longest treasure hunt
Science to make you smile
All things Oregon!
Shiny: Why we are dazzled by new sparkly things
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō: The new Māori Kuini
Thrillseekers
The world's worst tourist
A sticky situation
The only one
Let them eat crab
Can I eat it?
Breaking, climbing, and surfing
Marriage madness
Political Jet Lag
Mushroom magic
Lights out
Seismic swift
An unexpected burger
Balloon manoeuvres
Eternal flames
A world going on underground
Winning Losers
Unexpected birthday party
Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
A scientific séance
Computer memories and quantum futures
Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry
Unexpected elections
G.O.A.T
Ancient water, modern solutions
Fandom: The next generation
Unexpected Oscars
Leaping in Sync
Going the distance
Not so random acts of kindness
Deep in thought
How plankton made mountains
Populations of people, frogs and microbes
Rulers and the rules of ageing
Super corals and science diplomacy
Timing is everything
The Best of Unexpected Elements
A very dark day
An exploration of empathy
Boring science
Meetings with intelligent worms
All about cricket(s)
Why we need to talk toilets
Working 70 hours a week
Scary science
Fashion to dye for
Putting Madonna to the test
How bedbugs took over the world
Complete shutdown
How inflation affects the entire cosmos
Can technology read our mind?
Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days
Zombies, cows and coups
Protecting the Moon
The man who couldn’t lie
Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option
Some of our universe is missing
The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
Barbie in Space
Nato and the left-handed universe
Unexpected elements on the sea bed
Predictions from the sky and murderous fish
Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
Wildfires and wild animals
Collapsing pensions and civilisations
Migrate ideas
Signals, seaweed and space
Co-operation and cohesion
Coronation exploration
Return of Cyclone Freddy
Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
Drought worsens in East Africa
Animals at the Wuhan Market
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
CRISPR & bioethics
Turkey-Syria earthquake
Science on ice
Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
Climate science activism
Atmospheric rivers
One year on from the Tonga eruption
The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
Mosquito pesticide failing
Fusion milestone
Ancient warmth in Greenland
COVID spreads in China
A distant planet’s atmosphere
Online harassment of Covid scientists
Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
What peat can tell us about our future
Seismic events on Mars
The most powerful explosion ever recorded
Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
The final moments of DART
Should we mine the deep sea?
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
The genetics of human intelligence
The China Heatwave and the New Normal
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
Deadly drought
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Long Covid ‘brain fog’
Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
Monster microbe
Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
Heat death by volcano and other stories
Death in the rainforest
Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
Tsunami detective in Tonga
Radioactive Red Forest
Covid in the sewers
Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
Covid -19 origins
Reforming the 'China Initiative'
Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
The roots of Long Covid
Tonga eruption – how it happened
Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?
Omicron – mild or monster?
Omicron’s rapid replication rate
Can the weather trigger a volcano?
Omicron, racism and trust
Deliberately doomed dart
The end for coal power?
Bambi got Covid
Jet fuel from thin air
Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
Wetlands under attack
Youngest rock samples from the moon
Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats
Ebola can remain dormant for five years
Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
Methane - a climate solution?
Record-shattering weather
Insects in incredible detail
Nyiragongo Eruption
Robot revolution
Covid and clean air
Africa’s oldest burial
Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
Waste not, want not
Weird weather
Perseverance approaches Mars
Mixing Covid vaccines
Saving the Northern White Rhino
Gravitational waves and black holes
New variants of SARS-Cov2
Coping with Covid
2021 the year of variants
A year with Covid -19
Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Freak weather getting even freakier
Vaccines – the Covid confusion
Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Covid-19 defeats US Marines
Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
Covid -19 mortality
Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
Malaria resistance breakthrough
Covid -19 science versus politics
Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
Trouble in Greenland
Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Counting the heat health threat from climate change
NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
Covid-19 and children
Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Covid -19 hope for severe cases
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
The medical complexity of Covid -19
Brazil’s Covid chaos
Loosening lockdown
Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Presidents and pandemics
Italy, getting Covid 19 under control
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
The science of social distancing
Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Tracking coronavirus spread
Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus
Wuhan Coronavirus
Mount Taal volcano
Australia’s extreme fire season
Adapting California
Gaming climate change
Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
White Island volcano eruption
CRISPR babies scandal – more details
New Malaria target
Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Australia burning
Climate in crisis
Wildfires and winds in California
Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment
From batteries to distant worlds
Global climate inaction
South East Asia choking - again
Embryoids from stem cells
New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
Nanotube computer says hello
Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
The birth of a new volcano