Unexpected Elements Episodes Episode guide
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Nyiragongo Eruption
Understanding ‘ The world’s most dangerous volcano’
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Robot revolution
The robot arm that comes with feelings
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Covid and clean air
How improving indoor air quality can prevent illness from many viruses
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Africa’s oldest burial
A fossilised child reveals an ancient caring society
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Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan
Melting ice from glaciers over the last 20 years accounts for a fifth of sea level rise.
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Exponential increase in Indian covid cases
What’s behind the soaring numbers?
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Rolling out the vaccines faster
Can more money speed up rollout?
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On the trail of rare blood clots
Scientists in the EU and the UK are looking out for rare blood clots in vaccinated people
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Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital
A third of people hospitalised for covid are readmitted sometime after discharge.
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Science on the side of a new volcano
Science on the side of a new volcano. Also hints of a fundamental new physics.
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International science at sea
International research collaborations feel the pinch from UK overseas development cuts
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A shooting star parked on your driveway
A rare type of meteorite lands next to a rural UK house, and is now in professional hands
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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
Scanning Little Foot’s skull at the Diamond Light Source.
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Waste not, want not
Novel recycling to make new products
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Weird weather
Why is there snow in Texas?
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Perseverance approaches Mars
How Perseverance will land on Mars
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Mixing Covid vaccines
Can Covid vaccines be mixed?
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New Covid vaccine
Next-generation of RNA vaccine
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Saving the Northern White Rhino
Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction
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Gravitational waves and black holes
Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes
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New variants of SARS-Cov2
SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants
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Coping with Covid
Making sense of a year of confusion
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A year with Covid -19
Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response
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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.
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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Around three-quarters of the city’s population are thought to have been infected
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Freak weather getting even freakier
This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Immunity to the virus may last longer than previously thought
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Covid-19 defeats US Marines
The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?