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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
Ant antics
A Kenyan court sentenced four men for ant smuggling, so we’re getting into ant antics!
Enduring it all
We're looking at the science that helps you put one foot in front of the other.
Story time
The news you know, the science you don't
Mission unexpectedly possible
Turning lead into gold, talking to animals and time travel seem impossible but are they?
Gaming-inspired science
The Nintendo Switch 2 has sent us on a supersonic spin into gaming-related science
