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A scientific séance
Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics
Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
Rampaging horses lead us to horse cloning and what horseriding can teach driverless cars
Unexpected birthday party
It's party time and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and singing
Winning Losers
Does the winner really always take it all?
A world going on underground
In bunkers, basements and boreholes, we explore life going on underground
Eternal flames
From Olympic torches to zombie fires, we stoke the flames which do not go out
Balloon manoeuvres
Balloons in South Korea have us floating ideas about airships and helium.
An unexpected burger
After McDonalds’ recent court case loss the team cook up a scientific culinary delight
Seismic swift
A Taylor Swift gig in Scotland made us look at human earthquakes and animal seismographs
Lights out
A power outage in Ecuador has us pondering the darkness of blackouts
Mushroom magic
Hallucinatory, deadly or lifesaving? Your one-stop guide to everything fungi
Political Jet Lag
Brace yourself for presidential fights and pointless flights
Marriage madness
Ceremonies, rings and sleep divorce
Breaking, climbing, and surfing
Could we surf on Titan, or dance like a physicist? Olympic levels of science chat.
Can I eat it?
The discovery of champagne in a shipwreck has us pondering preservation
Let them eat crab
Everything you need for a French royal banquet, with an unexpected twist, of course.
The only one
Olympians representing their countries alone got us thinking about being the only one
A sticky situation
Two astronauts are stuck on the ISS, which got us thinking about other sticky issues.
The world's worst tourist
Following anti-tourism protests in Spain, we're looking at the world's peskiest visitors
Thrillseekers
The high stakes of the Paralympics has us chasing a thrill!
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō: The new Māori Kuini
The crowing of the new Māori Kuini (Queen) is cause for a scientific celebration
Shiny: Why we are dazzled by new sparkly things
Like magpies, we're obsessed with everything shiny. What is behind this attraction?
All things Oregon!
Marnie Chesterton and science journalists Chhavi Sachdev and Jes Burns, on their Ore
Science to make you smile
What better way to celebrate World Smile Day other than with scientific excellence
The world's longest treasure hunt
We dig for scientific gold in the form of seeds, aliens and cats
TV made me do it
Macron’s comments on Emily in Paris has us unpicking the power of television.
Mystery blobs
Blobs are appearing on beaches, so the team look at the science of gooey things.
The Swing of Things
So-called swing states inspire us to look into swing science.
Supermassive numbers
As Russia fines Google an unpayable sum of money, we look at some extremely large numbers
Are you not entertained?
Gladiator II is hitting the cinemas, so the Unexpected Elements team enters the arena.
Super Science
Geopolitical superpowers have Team Unexpected on the hunt for scientific superheroes.
