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Totally bananas

The Unexpected Elements team have gone bananas… for bananas!

• 49 mins

The science of Santa

The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!

• 49 mins

Festive trash talk

December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk

• 49 mins

(Re)New Year

New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science

• 49 mins

Scientist spotlight

Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.

• 49 mins

Circles, circumferences and Covid

From ancient Earth measurements to viral cycles and the science of friendly limits

• 49 mins

Keep it clean

A whole bathtub of science, from brains cleaning themselves to how space keeps sparkling

• 49 mins

Snake science

The Unexpected Elements team are talking all things snakes!

• 49 mins

All by myself

The Unexpected Elements team are discussing isolation.

• 49 mins

Let’s talk about love

Dig into the science of love from monogamous rodents to AI chatbots and compatibility

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

The Unexpected Elements team are going supersized.

• 49 mins

Topsy turvy

An upturned caravan has everyone baffled in Western France, time for a scientific shakeup

• 49 mins

Silent science

An album produced by musical legends contains just silence, is there any science to it?

• 49 mins

The fast and the curious

The Unexpected Elements team takes a whistlestop tour of all things fast!

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What’s that smell?

We sniff out stories about death, lies, cinema and COVID...

• 49 mins

Don’t be a fool!

Your one stop shop for scientific pranking this April Fools’ Day!

• 49 mins

Oh, Rats!

Can we make the case for remarkable rats, or are they just rubbish?

• 49 mins

Navigating northward

The Northern lights have us wondering how to go north (and other unexpected directions).

• 49 mins

An eggciting episode

The Christian celebration of Easter got us thinking about egg-related science.

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