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Unexpected Elements

The world's longest treasure huntThe world's longest treasure hunt

Released On: 11 Oct 2024

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We dig for scientific gold in the form of seeds, aliens and cats

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Unexpected Elements
The world's longest treasure hunt
We dig for scientific gold in the form of seeds, aliens and cats
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
TV made me do it
Macron鈥檚 comments on Emily in Paris has us unpicking the power of television.
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Unexpected Elements
Mystery blobs
Blobs are appearing on beaches, so the team look at the science of gooey things.
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Unexpected Elements
The Swing of Things
So-called swing states inspire us to look into swing science.
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Unexpected Elements
Supermassive numbers
As Russia fines Google an unpayable sum of money, we look at some extremely large numbers
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Unexpected Elements
Are you not entertained?
Gladiator II is hitting the cinemas, so the Unexpected Elements team enters the arena.
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Unexpected Elements
Super Science
Geopolitical superpowers have Team Unexpected on the hunt for scientific superheroes.
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Unexpected Elements
Doing a deal
It's Black Friday! And Unexpected Elements are on a hunt for the best deals
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Unexpected Elements
Going home
A potential homecoming for Chagossians got us investigating the science of home.
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Unexpected Elements
Totally bananas
The Unexpected Elements team have gone bananas鈥� for bananas!
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Unexpected Elements
The science of Santa
The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!
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Unexpected Elements
Festive trash talk
December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk
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Unexpected Elements
(Re)New Year
New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science
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Unexpected Elements
Scientist spotlight
Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.
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Unexpected Elements
Circles, circumferences and Covid
From ancient Earth measurements to viral cycles and the science of friendly limits
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Unexpected Elements
Keep it clean
A whole bathtub of science, from brains cleaning themselves to how space keeps sparkling
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Unexpected Elements
Snake science
The Unexpected Elements team are talking all things snakes!
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Unexpected Elements
All by myself
The Unexpected Elements team are discussing isolation.
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Unexpected Elements
Let鈥檚 talk about love
Dig into the science of love from monogamous rodents to AI chatbots and compatibility
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Unexpected Elements
Standing on the shoulders of giants
The Unexpected Elements team are going supersized.
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Unexpected Elements
Topsy turvy
An upturned caravan has everyone baffled in Western France, time for a scientific shakeup
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Unexpected Elements
Silent science
An album produced by musical legends contains just silence, is there any science to it?
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Unexpected Elements
The fast and the curious
The Unexpected Elements team takes a whistlestop tour of all things fast!
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Unexpected Elements
What鈥檚 that smell?
We sniff out stories about death, lies, cinema and COVID...
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Unexpected Elements
Don鈥檛 be a fool!
Your one stop shop for scientific pranking this April Fools鈥� Day!
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Unexpected Elements
Oh, Rats!
Can we make the case for remarkable rats, or are they just rubbish?
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Unexpected Elements
Navigating northward
The Northern lights have us wondering how to go north (and other unexpected directions).
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Unexpected Elements
An eggciting episode
The Christian celebration of Easter got us thinking about egg-related science.
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