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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.
Doing a deal
It's Black Friday! And Unexpected Elements are on a hunt for the best deals
Going home
A potential homecoming for Chagossians got us investigating the science of home.
Totally bananas
The Unexpected Elements team have gone bananas… for bananas!
The science of Santa
The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!
Festive trash talk
December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk
(Re)New Year
New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science
Scientist spotlight
Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.
Circles, circumferences and Covid
From ancient Earth measurements to viral cycles and the science of friendly limits
Keep it clean
A whole bathtub of science, from brains cleaning themselves to how space keeps sparkling
Snake science
The Unexpected Elements team are talking all things snakes!
All by myself
The Unexpected Elements team are discussing isolation.
Let’s talk about love
Dig into the science of love from monogamous rodents to AI chatbots and compatibility
Standing on the shoulders of giants
The Unexpected Elements team are going supersized.
Topsy turvy
An upturned caravan has everyone baffled in Western , time for a scientific shakeup
Silent science
An album produced by musical legends contains just silence, is there any science to it?
The fast and the curious
The Unexpected Elements team takes a whistlestop tour of all things fast!
What’s that smell?
We sniff out stories about death, lies, cinema and COVID...
Don’t be a fool!
Your one stop shop for scientific pranking this April Fools’ Day!
Oh, Rats!
Can we make the case for remarkable rats, or are they just rubbish?
Navigating northward
The Northern lights have us wondering how to go north (and other unexpected directions).
An eggciting episode
The Christian celebration of Easter got us thinking about egg-related science.
Kenya believe it?
The Unexpected Elements team visits Nairobi, Kenya.
In memoriam
The death of the Pope inspired Unexpected Elements to look at the science of loss
