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Unexpected Elements

The Best of Unexpected ElementsThe Best of Unexpected Elements

Released On: 28 Dec 2023

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Marnie Chesterton and Caroline Steel look back at some of the best bits of the show.

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Unexpected Elements
The Best of Unexpected Elements
Marnie Chesterton and Caroline Steel look back at some of the best bits of the show.
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Timing is everything
Can you visualize time? We don鈥檛 all see it the same way
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Super corals and science diplomacy
Could tensions around the Red Sea affect research into heat-resistant super corals?
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Rulers and the rules of ageing
Under the stress and strains of leadership, how might power affect youthfulness?
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Populations of people, frogs and microbes
With China鈥檚 population declining, would decreasing populations be better for the planet?
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
How plankton made mountains
The world鈥檚 largest cruise ship has set sail 鈥� but what stowaways are hiding onboard?
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Unexpected Elements
Deep in thought
News of a microchip implanted in a human brain sends our imagination running wild
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Not so random acts of kindness
Are African spiders behind the ultimate act of kindness in nature?
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Unexpected Elements
Going the distance
A tribute to marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum and the science behind his record performances
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Unexpected Elements
Leaping in Sync
As the leap year helps keep us in sync, we explore nature鈥檚 ways of staying in rhythm
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Unexpected Oscars
As award season reaches its climax, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony.
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Unexpected Elements
Fandom: The next generation
K-Pop fans send us on a journey into fandom through Star Trek, football and physics
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Ancient water, modern solutions
With water shortages and melting ice caps making the news we look at unexpected solutions
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
G.O.A.T
The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest science to boot!
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Unexpected Elements
Unexpected elections
What do stickleback fish have to do with millions of people鈥檚 voting intentions?
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Unexpected Elements
Beyonc茅, banjos and dancing chemistry
Beyonce's reappraisal of who can do country music spurs an Unexpected Elements hoedown
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Unexpected Elements
Computer memories and quantum futures
From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud.
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
A scientific s茅ance
Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics
50 mins
Unexpected Elements
Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
Rampaging horses lead us to horse cloning and what horseriding can teach driverless cars
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Unexpected birthday party
It's party time and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and singing
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Winning Losers
Does the winner really always take it all?
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
A world going on underground
In bunkers, basements and boreholes, we explore life going on underground
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Eternal flames
From Olympic torches to zombie fires, we stoke the flames which do not go out
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Balloon manoeuvres
Balloons in South Korea have us floating ideas about airships and helium.
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
An unexpected burger
After McDonalds鈥� recent court case loss the team cook up a scientific culinary delight
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Unexpected Elements
Seismic swift
A Taylor Swift gig in Scotland made us look at human earthquakes and animal seismographs
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Unexpected Elements
Lights out
A power outage in Ecuador has us pondering the darkness of blackouts
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Unexpected Elements
Mushroom magic
Hallucinatory, deadly or lifesaving? Your one-stop guide to everything fungi
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Unexpected Elements
Political Jet Lag
Brace yourself for presidential fights and pointless flights
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Unexpected Elements
Marriage madness
Ceremonies, rings and sleep divorce
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Unexpected Elements
Breaking, climbing, and surfing
Could we surf on Titan, or dance like a physicist? Olympic levels of science chat.
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