Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Scientific discoveries and stories from around the world • Unique animal behaviors and lifespans • Environmental and climate issues • Tech advancements in quantum computing and AI • Unusual scientific phenomena • Human behavior and sociology
"Unexpected Elements" is a science-themed podcast that delves into a wide array of topics, bridging everyday news with intricate scientific narratives. The podcast aims to uncover unexpected scientific connections and stories from different corners of the world, offering listeners a fresh perspective on both familiar and obscure subjects.
The episodes explore a diverse range of topics, often merging intriguing scientific phenomena with contemporary issues. Animated discussions involve unusual scientific innovations, such as efforts to create meat substitutes and space-grown vegetables, and how they compare to conventional fast foods. Additionally, the podcast delves into the history and utility of objects like balloons and their surprising scientific applications.
Listeners can expect deep dives into environmental topics, including the impact of climate change on agriculture and the intriguing phenomenon of 'Zombie fires' in Canada. The podcast also discusses the importance of preserving water resources and innovative ways to combat water shortages globally.
The show doesn't shy away from more whimsical scientific inquiries either, such as investigations into the reasons behind certain biological phenomena, like the longevity of specific animal species or the curious behaviors of insects. It also explores the behavioral sciences by examining why humans act and react in certain ways under different circumstances.
A recurring theme throughout the episodes is the intersection of science and everyday life, whether it's through examining the influence of cultural elements like music on scientific concepts or exploring how technological advances can aid in wildlife conservation efforts.
Moreover, the podcast often features expert guest speakers from various scientific fields, providing valuable insights into their research and its broader implications. From analyzing astronomical phenomena to discussing the potential of quantum computing, "Unexpected Elements" presents a rich tapestry of scientific exploration that caters to the curious mind, offering content that is both enlightening and engaging.
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Episodes:
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Lights out
2024-Jun-28
49 minutes
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Seismic swift
2024-Jun-21
49 minutes
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An unexpected burger
2024-Jun-14
49 minutes
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Balloon manoeuvres
2024-Jun-07
49 minutes
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Eternal flames
2024-May-31
49 minutes
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A world going on underground
2024-May-24
49 minutes
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Winning Losers
2024-May-17
49 minutes
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Unexpected birthday party
2024-May-10
49 minutes
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Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
2024-May-03
49 minutes
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A scientific séance
2024-Apr-26
50 minutes
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Computer memories and quantum futures
2024-Apr-19
49 minutes
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Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry
2024-Apr-12
49 minutes
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Unexpected elections
2024-Apr-05
50 minutes
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G.O.A.T
2024-Mar-28
50 minutes
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Ancient water, modern solutions
2024-Mar-21
50 minutes
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Fandom: The next generation
2024-Mar-14
50 minutes
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Unexpected Oscars
2024-Mar-07
50 minutes
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Leaping in Sync
2024-Feb-29
50 minutes
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Going the distance
2024-Feb-22
50 minutes
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Not so random acts of kindness
2024-Feb-15
50 minutes
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Deep in thought
2024-Feb-08
50 minutes
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How plankton made mountains
2024-Feb-01
50 minutes
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Populations of people, frogs and microbes
2024-Jan-25
50 minutes
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Rulers and the rules of ageing
2024-Jan-18
50 minutes
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Super corals and science diplomacy
2024-Jan-11
50 minutes
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Timing is everything
2024-Jan-04
50 minutes
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The Best of Unexpected Elements
2023-Dec-28
49 minutes
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A very dark day
2023-Dec-21
50 minutes
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An exploration of empathy
2023-Dec-14
50 minutes
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Boring science
2023-Dec-07
50 minutes
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Meetings with intelligent worms
2023-Nov-30
50 minutes
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All about cricket(s)
2023-Nov-23
50 minutes
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Why we need to talk toilets
2023-Nov-16
50 minutes
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Working 70 hours a week
2023-Nov-09
50 minutes
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Scary science
2023-Nov-02
50 minutes
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Fashion to dye for
2023-Oct-26
50 minutes
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Putting Madonna to the test
2023-Oct-19
50 minutes
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How bedbugs took over the world
2023-Oct-12
53 minutes
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Complete shutdown
2023-Oct-05
50 minutes
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How inflation affects the entire cosmos
2023-Sep-28
50 minutes
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Can technology read our mind?
2023-Sep-21
50 minutes
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Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days
2023-Sep-14
50 minutes
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Zombies, cows and coups
2023-Sep-07
53 minutes
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Protecting the Moon
2023-Aug-31
50 minutes
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The man who couldn’t lie
2023-Aug-24
50 minutes
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Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option
2023-Aug-17
50 minutes
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Some of our universe is missing
2023-Aug-10
53 minutes
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The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
2023-Aug-03
50 minutes
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Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
2023-Jul-27
50 minutes
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Barbie in Space
2023-Jul-20
50 minutes
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Nato and the left-handed universe
2023-Jul-13
50 minutes
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Unexpected elements on the sea bed
2023-Jul-06
50 minutes
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Predictions from the sky and murderous fish
2023-Jun-29
50 minutes
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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
2023-Jun-22
50 minutes
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Wildfires and wild animals
2023-Jun-15
50 minutes
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Collapsing pensions and civilisations
2023-Jun-08
50 minutes
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Migrate ideas
2023-Jun-01
49 minutes
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Signals, seaweed and space
2023-May-25
50 minutes
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Co-operation and cohesion
2023-May-18
53 minutes
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Coronation exploration
2023-May-11
50 minutes
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
2023-Mar-19
61 minutes
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Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
2023-Mar-12
61 minutes
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Drought worsens in East Africa
2023-Mar-05
59 minutes
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
2023-Feb-26
77 minutes
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
2023-Feb-26
64 minutes
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CRISPR & bioethics
2023-Feb-19
55 minutes
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Turkey-Syria earthquake
2023-Feb-11
53 minutes
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Science on ice
2023-Feb-05
53 minutes
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
2023-Jan-29
51 minutes
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Climate science activism
2023-Jan-22
53 minutes
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Atmospheric rivers
2023-Jan-15
60 minutes
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
2023-Jan-08
56 minutes
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The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
2023-Jan-01
63 minutes
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Mosquito pesticide failing
2022-Dec-25
59 minutes
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Fusion milestone
2022-Dec-18
68 minutes
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Ancient warmth in Greenland
2022-Dec-11
62 minutes
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COVID spreads in China
2022-Dec-04
65 minutes
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A distant planet’s atmosphere
2022-Nov-27
55 minutes
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
2022-Nov-20
61 minutes
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
2022-Nov-13
68 minutes
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What peat can tell us about our future
2022-Nov-06
53 minutes
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Seismic events on Mars
2022-Oct-30
54 minutes
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
2022-Oct-23
53 minutes
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
2022-Oct-16
58 minutes
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Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
2022-Oct-09
57 minutes
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The final moments of DART
2022-Oct-01
53 minutes
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Should we mine the deep sea?
2022-Sep-24
53 minutes
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
2022-Sep-18
57 minutes
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The genetics of human intelligence
2022-Sep-11
62 minutes
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The China Heatwave and the New Normal
2022-Sep-04
55 minutes
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
2022-Aug-28
53 minutes
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Deadly drought
2022-Aug-20
55 minutes
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
2022-Aug-14
54 minutes
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Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
2022-Aug-07
56 minutes
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The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
2022-Jul-30
54 minutes
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Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
2022-Jul-23
56 minutes
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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
2022-Jul-16
63 minutes
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Long Covid ‘brain fog’
2022-Jul-11
64 minutes
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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
2022-Jul-03
59 minutes
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Monster microbe
2022-Jun-26
69 minutes
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Thirty years after the Earth Summit
2022-Jun-19
61 minutes
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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
2022-Jun-11
60 minutes
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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
2022-Jun-04
56 minutes
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Heat death by volcano and other stories
2022-May-29
56 minutes
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Death in the rainforest
2022-May-21
58 minutes
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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
2022-May-15
64 minutes
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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
2022-May-08
61 minutes
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
2022-May-01
65 minutes
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
2022-Apr-24
67 minutes
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
2022-Apr-17
74 minutes
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Tsunami detective in Tonga
2022-Apr-10
61 minutes
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Radioactive Red Forest
2022-Apr-03
58 minutes
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Covid in the sewers
2022-Mar-20
58 minutes
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Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
2022-Mar-13
64 minutes
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Covid -19 origins
2022-Mar-06
57 minutes
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Reforming the 'China Initiative'
2022-Feb-27
58 minutes
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
2022-Feb-20
64 minutes
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Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
2022-Feb-13
65 minutes
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
2022-Feb-06
63 minutes
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The roots of Long Covid
2022-Jan-30
56 minutes
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
2022-Jan-23
59 minutes
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
2022-Jan-16
57 minutes
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CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?
2022-Jan-09
57 minutes
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Omicron – mild or monster?
2021-Dec-26
60 minutes
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Omicron’s rapid replication rate
2021-Dec-19
63 minutes
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Can the weather trigger a volcano?
2021-Dec-12
69 minutes
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Omicron, racism and trust
2021-Dec-05
62 minutes
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Deliberately doomed dart
2021-Nov-28
62 minutes
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The end for coal power?
2021-Nov-21
57 minutes
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Bambi got Covid
2021-Nov-14
53 minutes
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Jet fuel from thin air
2021-Nov-07
73 minutes
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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
2021-Oct-31
62 minutes
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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
2021-Oct-24
53 minutes
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Wetlands under attack
2021-Oct-15
58 minutes
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Youngest rock samples from the moon
2021-Oct-10
63 minutes
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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
2021-Oct-03
61 minutes
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New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats
2021-Sep-26
63 minutes
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Ebola can remain dormant for five years
2021-Sep-19
63 minutes
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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
2021-Sep-12
53 minutes
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Methane - a climate solution?
2021-Aug-15
67 minutes
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Record-shattering weather
2021-Aug-08
65 minutes
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Insects in incredible detail
2021-Jul-04
69 minutes
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Nyiragongo Eruption
2021-May-29
54 minutes
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Robot revolution
2021-May-23
72 minutes
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Covid and clean air
2021-May-16
59 minutes
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Africa’s oldest burial
2021-May-09
65 minutes
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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
2021-Mar-07
54 minutes
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Waste not, want not
2021-Feb-28
70 minutes
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Weird weather
2021-Feb-21
66 minutes
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Perseverance approaches Mars
2021-Feb-14
72 minutes
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Mixing Covid vaccines
2021-Feb-07
69 minutes
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Saving the Northern White Rhino
2021-Jan-24
61 minutes
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Gravitational waves and black holes
2021-Jan-17
63 minutes
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New variants of SARS-Cov2
2021-Jan-10
53 minutes
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Coping with Covid
2021-Jan-03
52 minutes
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2021 the year of variants
2021-Jan-02
67 minutes
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A year with Covid -19
2020-Dec-27
53 minutes
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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
2020-Dec-20
67 minutes
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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
2020-Dec-13
55 minutes
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Freak weather getting even freakier
2020-Dec-08
66 minutes
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
2020-Nov-29
64 minutes
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
2020-Nov-22
63 minutes
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Covid-19 defeats US Marines
2020-Nov-15
66 minutes
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
2020-Nov-08
59 minutes
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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
2020-Nov-01
63 minutes
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Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
2020-Oct-25
60 minutes
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Covid -19 mortality
2020-Oct-18
68 minutes
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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
2020-Oct-11
70 minutes
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Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
2020-Oct-04
70 minutes
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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
2020-Sep-27
75 minutes
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Malaria resistance breakthrough
2020-Sep-20
55 minutes
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Covid -19 science versus politics
2020-Sep-13
69 minutes
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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
2020-Sep-06
62 minutes
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Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
2020-Aug-29
65 minutes
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Trouble in Greenland
2020-Aug-23
59 minutes
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
2020-Aug-16
72 minutes
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
2020-Aug-09
60 minutes
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
2020-Aug-02
62 minutes
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
2020-Jul-26
61 minutes
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
2020-Jul-18
53 minutes
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
2020-Jul-11
68 minutes
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Covid-19 and children
2020-Jul-05
63 minutes
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
2020-Jun-28
67 minutes
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
2020-Jun-21
71 minutes
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Food security, locusts and Covid -19
2020-Jun-14
64 minutes
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
2020-Jun-07
65 minutes
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
2020-May-31
77 minutes
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Loosening lockdown
2020-May-17
78 minutes
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
2020-May-10
75 minutes
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
2020-May-03
84 minutes
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Presidents and pandemics
2020-Apr-26
77 minutes
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Italy, getting Covid 19 under control
2020-Apr-19
49 minutes
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The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
2020-Apr-12
53 minutes
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
2020-Apr-05
58 minutes
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The science of social distancing
2020-Mar-29
67 minutes
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
2020-Mar-22
66 minutes
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
2020-Mar-15
67 minutes
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
2020-Mar-08
62 minutes
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Tracking coronavirus spread
2020-Mar-01
67 minutes
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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
2020-Feb-23
59 minutes
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
2020-Feb-16
65 minutes
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
2020-Feb-09
62 minutes
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Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus
2020-Feb-02
66 minutes
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Wuhan Coronavirus
2020-Jan-26
66 minutes
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Mount Taal volcano
2020-Jan-19
60 minutes
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Australia’s extreme fire season
2020-Jan-12
68 minutes
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Adapting California
2020-Jan-05
61 minutes
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Gaming climate change
2019-Dec-29
53 minutes
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
2019-Dec-22
53 minutes
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White Island volcano eruption
2019-Dec-15
56 minutes
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
2019-Dec-08
71 minutes
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New Malaria target
2019-Dec-02
56 minutes
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
2019-Nov-24
64 minutes
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Australia burning
2019-Nov-17
56 minutes
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Climate in crisis
2019-Nov-10
60 minutes
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Wildfires and winds in California
2019-Nov-03
62 minutes
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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
2019-Oct-27
72 minutes
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Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment
2019-Oct-20
61 minutes
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From batteries to distant worlds
2019-Oct-13
56 minutes
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Global climate inaction
2019-Sep-29
64 minutes
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South East Asia choking - again
2019-Sep-25
66 minutes
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Embryoids from stem cells
2019-Sep-15
60 minutes
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
2019-Sep-07
62 minutes
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Nanotube computer says hello
2019-Aug-31
63 minutes
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
2019-Aug-24
68 minutes
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
2019-Aug-18
73 minutes
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The birth of a new volcano
2019-May-26
63 minutes
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