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Usually Unexpected Elements looks at the science behind the news, but this week Marnie Chesterton and Caroline Steel are looking back at some of the best bits from our first few months.

We鈥檝e got the best from our team of panellists across the globe, including what鈥檚 going on in your brain when you speak more than one language, the horrific mating ritual of the bedbug and the science behind our panellist Camilla鈥檚 terrible haircut decision.

We look back at some of the brilliant scientists we鈥檝e spoken to, with subjects as diverse as whale song, how the entire universe was once the size of a marble, why an archaeologist hasn鈥檛 run off with all the gold he鈥檚 found and how the jewel wasp turn a cockroach into a zombie.

We have 鈥楿nder the Radar鈥� stories about power outages in South Africa, human ancestors from China, bringing Rhinos back to life in Kenya and how to keep everyone safe from Polar Bears in a place where there鈥檚 no phone signal.

We reflect on our attempts to find the Coolest Science in the World, and whether it鈥檚 possible to pit a hurricane machine against an alternative to antibiotics.

And it wouldn鈥檛 be a 鈥榖est of鈥� show without a digest of all the fruit chat from throughout the year.

All that plus eating glue for science, our best (or worst?) puns and some singing cows.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton & Caroline Steel
Produced by Ben Motley, with Tom Bonnett