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Podcast Profile: Unexpected Elements

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260 episodes
2019 to 2025
Median: 56 minutes
Collection: Science

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"Unexpected Elements" is a podcast that explores the intersection of news, science, and unexpected global stories. The show delves into an array of intriguing topics, consistently uncovering the fascinating science underlying everyday occurrences and complex global phenomena. The episodes cover a wide spectrum of subjects, from the mechanics of snake locomotion and debates on board games to the cultural influences of TV shows and food science explorations.

Each episode brings together scientific insights with societal narratives, often weaving in interviews with experts from diverse fields such as evolutionary psychology, quantum computing, neuroscience, and herpetology. Recurring themes include the examination of human behavior, as seen in episodes discussing trust and debate; an exploration of natural phenomena and their implications, such as the study of planetary motions, animal behavior, and environmental conservation; and a look at the innovative solutions science offers to contemporary global challenges, including climate change and biomedical advancements.

Cultural and societal commentaries often accompany these explorations, from discussions on political events to the influence of entertainment and technology on public perception. Humor and relatability are common features, with the podcast often examining quirky or eccentric stories, such as the success of certain animals in adapting to environmental changes, the fascinating history of certain scientific concepts, and the peculiarities of human traditions and modern-day practices.

Ultimately, "Unexpected Elements" serves as a platform for science journalism that seeks to entertain and inform, providing listeners with a fresh perspective on the innumerable ways in which science intersects with daily life and broader global issues.

Episodes:

Let’s talk about love 2025-Feb-14 49 minutes

All by myself 2025-Feb-07 49 minutes

Snake science 2025-Jan-31 49 minutes

Keep it clean 2025-Jan-24 49 minutes

Circles, circumferences and Covid 2025-Jan-17 49 minutes

Scientist spotlight 2025-Jan-10 49 minutes

(Re)New Year 2025-Jan-03 49 minutes

Festive trash talk 2024-Dec-27 49 minutes

The science of Santa 2024-Dec-20 49 minutes

Totally bananas 2024-Dec-13 49 minutes

Going home 2024-Dec-06 49 minutes

Doing a deal 2024-Nov-29 49 minutes

Super Science 2024-Nov-22 49 minutes

Are you not entertained? 2024-Nov-15 49 minutes

Supermassive numbers 2024-Nov-08 49 minutes

The Swing of Things 2024-Nov-01 49 minutes

Mystery blobs 2024-Oct-25 49 minutes

TV made me do it 2024-Oct-18 49 minutes

The world's longest treasure hunt 2024-Oct-11 49 minutes

Science to make you smile 2024-Oct-04 49 minutes

All things Oregon! 2024-Sep-27 49 minutes

Shiny: Why we are dazzled by new sparkly things 2024-Sep-20 49 minutes

Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō: The new Māori Kuini 2024-Sep-13 49 minutes

Thrillseekers 2024-Sep-06 49 minutes

The world's worst tourist 2024-Aug-30 49 minutes

A sticky situation 2024-Aug-23 49 minutes

The only one 2024-Aug-16 49 minutes

Let them eat crab 2024-Aug-09 49 minutes

Can I eat it? 2024-Aug-02 49 minutes

Breaking, climbing, and surfing 2024-Jul-26 49 minutes

Marriage madness 2024-Jul-19 49 minutes

Political Jet Lag 2024-Jul-12 49 minutes

Mushroom magic 2024-Jul-05 49 minutes

Lights out 2024-Jun-28 49 minutes

Seismic swift 2024-Jun-21 49 minutes

An unexpected burger 2024-Jun-14 49 minutes

Balloon manoeuvres 2024-Jun-07 49 minutes

Eternal flames 2024-May-31 49 minutes

A world going on underground 2024-May-24 49 minutes

Winning Losers 2024-May-17 49 minutes

Unexpected birthday party 2024-May-10 49 minutes

Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning 2024-May-03 49 minutes

A scientific séance 2024-Apr-26 50 minutes

Computer memories and quantum futures 2024-Apr-19 49 minutes

Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry 2024-Apr-12 49 minutes

Unexpected elections 2024-Apr-05 50 minutes

G.O.A.T 2024-Mar-28 50 minutes

Ancient water, modern solutions 2024-Mar-21 50 minutes

Fandom: The next generation 2024-Mar-14 50 minutes

Unexpected Oscars 2024-Mar-07 50 minutes

Leaping in Sync 2024-Feb-29 50 minutes

Going the distance 2024-Feb-22 50 minutes

Not so random acts of kindness 2024-Feb-15 50 minutes

Deep in thought 2024-Feb-08 50 minutes

How plankton made mountains 2024-Feb-01 50 minutes

Populations of people, frogs and microbes 2024-Jan-25 50 minutes

Rulers and the rules of ageing 2024-Jan-18 50 minutes

Super corals and science diplomacy 2024-Jan-11 50 minutes

Timing is everything 2024-Jan-04 50 minutes

The Best of Unexpected Elements 2023-Dec-28 49 minutes

A very dark day 2023-Dec-21 50 minutes

An exploration of empathy 2023-Dec-14 50 minutes

Boring science 2023-Dec-07 50 minutes

Meetings with intelligent worms 2023-Nov-30 50 minutes

All about cricket(s) 2023-Nov-23 50 minutes

Why we need to talk toilets 2023-Nov-16 50 minutes

Working 70 hours a week 2023-Nov-09 50 minutes

Scary science 2023-Nov-02 50 minutes

Fashion to dye for 2023-Oct-26 50 minutes

Putting Madonna to the test 2023-Oct-19 50 minutes

How bedbugs took over the world 2023-Oct-12 53 minutes

Complete shutdown 2023-Oct-05 50 minutes

How inflation affects the entire cosmos 2023-Sep-28 50 minutes

Can technology read our mind? 2023-Sep-21 50 minutes

Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days 2023-Sep-14 50 minutes

Zombies, cows and coups 2023-Sep-07 53 minutes

Protecting the Moon 2023-Aug-31 50 minutes

The man who couldn’t lie 2023-Aug-24 50 minutes

Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option 2023-Aug-17 50 minutes

Some of our universe is missing 2023-Aug-10 53 minutes

The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas 2023-Aug-03 50 minutes

Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot 2023-Jul-27 50 minutes

Barbie in Space 2023-Jul-20 50 minutes

Nato and the left-handed universe 2023-Jul-13 50 minutes

Unexpected elements on the sea bed 2023-Jul-06 50 minutes

Predictions from the sky and murderous fish 2023-Jun-29 50 minutes

Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces 2023-Jun-22 50 minutes

Wildfires and wild animals 2023-Jun-15 50 minutes

Collapsing pensions and civilisations 2023-Jun-08 50 minutes

Migrate ideas 2023-Jun-01 49 minutes

Signals, seaweed and space 2023-May-25 50 minutes

Co-operation and cohesion 2023-May-18 53 minutes

Coronation exploration 2023-May-11 50 minutes

Return of Cyclone Freddy 2023-Mar-19 61 minutes

Human genome editing: Promise and Peril 2023-Mar-12 61 minutes

Drought worsens in East Africa 2023-Mar-05 59 minutes

Animals at the Wuhan Market 2023-Feb-26 77 minutes

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar 2023-Feb-26 64 minutes

CRISPR & bioethics 2023-Feb-19 55 minutes

Turkey-Syria earthquake 2023-Feb-11 53 minutes

Science on ice 2023-Feb-05 53 minutes

Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink 2023-Jan-29 51 minutes

Climate science activism 2023-Jan-22 53 minutes

Atmospheric rivers 2023-Jan-15 60 minutes

One year on from the Tonga eruption 2023-Jan-08 56 minutes

The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months 2023-Jan-01 63 minutes

Mosquito pesticide failing 2022-Dec-25 59 minutes

Fusion milestone 2022-Dec-18 68 minutes

Ancient warmth in Greenland 2022-Dec-11 62 minutes

COVID spreads in China 2022-Dec-04 65 minutes

A distant planet’s atmosphere 2022-Nov-27 55 minutes

Online harassment of Covid scientists 2022-Nov-20 61 minutes

Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients 2022-Nov-13 68 minutes

What peat can tell us about our future 2022-Nov-06 53 minutes

Seismic events on Mars 2022-Oct-30 54 minutes

The most powerful explosion ever recorded 2022-Oct-23 53 minutes

Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats 2022-Oct-16 58 minutes

Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners 2022-Oct-09 57 minutes

The final moments of DART 2022-Oct-01 53 minutes

Should we mine the deep sea? 2022-Sep-24 53 minutes

Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods 2022-Sep-18 57 minutes

The genetics of human intelligence 2022-Sep-11 62 minutes

The China Heatwave and the New Normal 2022-Sep-04 55 minutes

Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed 2022-Aug-28 53 minutes

Deadly drought 2022-Aug-20 55 minutes

Icelandic volcano erupts again 2022-Aug-14 54 minutes

Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts 2022-Aug-07 56 minutes

The first galaxies at the universe's dawn 2022-Jul-30 54 minutes

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere 2022-Jul-23 56 minutes

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope 2022-Jul-16 63 minutes

Long Covid ‘brain fog’ 2022-Jul-11 64 minutes

Extreme heat death risk in Latin America 2022-Jul-03 59 minutes

Monster microbe 2022-Jun-26 69 minutes

Thirty years after the Earth Summit 2022-Jun-19 61 minutes

Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts 2022-Jun-11 60 minutes

Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants? 2022-Jun-04 56 minutes

Heat death by volcano and other stories 2022-May-29 56 minutes

Death in the rainforest 2022-May-21 58 minutes

Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart 2022-May-15 64 minutes

Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100 2022-May-08 61 minutes

The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave 2022-May-01 65 minutes

Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden 2022-Apr-24 67 minutes

How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression 2022-Apr-17 74 minutes

Tsunami detective in Tonga 2022-Apr-10 61 minutes

Radioactive Red Forest 2022-Apr-03 58 minutes

Covid in the sewers 2022-Mar-20 58 minutes

Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong? 2022-Mar-13 64 minutes

Covid -19 origins 2022-Mar-06 57 minutes

Reforming the 'China Initiative' 2022-Feb-27 58 minutes

Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology 2022-Feb-20 64 minutes

Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab 2022-Feb-13 65 minutes

Identifying a more infectious HIV variant 2022-Feb-06 63 minutes

The roots of Long Covid 2022-Jan-30 56 minutes

Tonga eruption – how it happened 2022-Jan-23 59 minutes

Have we got it wrong on Omicron? 2022-Jan-16 57 minutes

CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world? 2022-Jan-09 57 minutes

Omicron – mild or monster? 2021-Dec-26 60 minutes

Omicron’s rapid replication rate 2021-Dec-19 63 minutes

Can the weather trigger a volcano? 2021-Dec-12 69 minutes

Omicron, racism and trust 2021-Dec-05 62 minutes

Deliberately doomed dart 2021-Nov-28 62 minutes

The end for coal power? 2021-Nov-21 57 minutes

Bambi got Covid 2021-Nov-14 53 minutes

Jet fuel from thin air 2021-Nov-07 73 minutes

Can we still avoid climate catastrophe? 2021-Oct-31 62 minutes

Red blood cells’ surprising immune function 2021-Oct-24 53 minutes

Wetlands under attack 2021-Oct-15 58 minutes

Youngest rock samples from the moon 2021-Oct-10 63 minutes

Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa 2021-Oct-03 61 minutes

New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats 2021-Sep-26 63 minutes

Ebola can remain dormant for five years 2021-Sep-19 63 minutes

Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal 2021-Sep-12 53 minutes

Methane - a climate solution? 2021-Aug-15 67 minutes

Record-shattering weather 2021-Aug-08 65 minutes

Insects in incredible detail 2021-Jul-04 69 minutes

Nyiragongo Eruption 2021-May-29 54 minutes

Robot revolution 2021-May-23 72 minutes

Covid and clean air 2021-May-16 59 minutes

Africa’s oldest burial 2021-May-09 65 minutes

Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull 2021-Mar-07 54 minutes

Waste not, want not 2021-Feb-28 70 minutes

Weird weather 2021-Feb-21 66 minutes

Perseverance approaches Mars 2021-Feb-14 72 minutes

Mixing Covid vaccines 2021-Feb-07 69 minutes

Saving the Northern White Rhino 2021-Jan-24 61 minutes

Gravitational waves and black holes 2021-Jan-17 63 minutes

New variants of SARS-Cov2 2021-Jan-10 53 minutes

Coping with Covid 2021-Jan-03 52 minutes

2021 the year of variants 2021-Jan-02 67 minutes

A year with Covid -19 2020-Dec-27 53 minutes

Covid -19 – Mutations are normal 2020-Dec-20 67 minutes

The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus 2020-Dec-13 55 minutes

Freak weather getting even freakier 2020-Dec-08 66 minutes

Vaccines – the Covid confusion 2020-Nov-29 64 minutes

Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity 2020-Nov-22 63 minutes

Covid-19 defeats US Marines 2020-Nov-15 66 minutes

Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans 2020-Nov-08 59 minutes

Osiris Rex stows asteroid material 2020-Nov-01 63 minutes

Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid 2020-Oct-25 60 minutes

Covid -19 mortality 2020-Oct-18 68 minutes

Do Covid–19 mutations matter? 2020-Oct-11 70 minutes

Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders? 2020-Oct-04 70 minutes

Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission 2020-Sep-27 75 minutes

Malaria resistance breakthrough 2020-Sep-20 55 minutes

Covid -19 science versus politics 2020-Sep-13 69 minutes

Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat? 2020-Sep-06 62 minutes

Covid-19 Therapy Controversy 2020-Aug-29 65 minutes

Trouble in Greenland 2020-Aug-23 59 minutes

Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine 2020-Aug-16 72 minutes

Counting the heat health threat from climate change 2020-Aug-09 60 minutes

NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake 2020-Aug-02 62 minutes

Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people 2020-Jul-26 61 minutes

How long do Covid-19 antibodies last? 2020-Jul-18 53 minutes

Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test 2020-Jul-11 68 minutes

Covid-19 and children 2020-Jul-05 63 minutes

Record high temperatures – in the Arctic 2020-Jun-28 67 minutes

Covid -19 hope for severe cases 2020-Jun-21 71 minutes

Food security, locusts and Covid -19 2020-Jun-14 64 minutes

The medical complexity of Covid -19 2020-Jun-07 65 minutes

Brazil’s Covid chaos 2020-May-31 77 minutes

Loosening lockdown 2020-May-17 78 minutes

Covid -19 new hope from blood tests 2020-May-10 75 minutes

Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19 2020-May-03 84 minutes

Presidents and pandemics 2020-Apr-26 77 minutes

Italy, getting Covid 19 under control 2020-Apr-19 49 minutes

The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps 2020-Apr-12 53 minutes

Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins 2020-Apr-05 58 minutes

The science of social distancing 2020-Mar-29 67 minutes

Covid -19, are you carrying the virus? 2020-Mar-22 66 minutes

Covid -19 how infectious is it really? 2020-Mar-15 67 minutes

Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change 2020-Mar-08 62 minutes

Tracking coronavirus spread 2020-Mar-01 67 minutes

Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk 2020-Feb-23 59 minutes

CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak 2020-Feb-16 65 minutes

Coronavirus, prospects for treatment? 2020-Feb-09 62 minutes

Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus 2020-Feb-02 66 minutes

Wuhan Coronavirus 2020-Jan-26 66 minutes

Mount Taal volcano 2020-Jan-19 60 minutes

Australia’s extreme fire season 2020-Jan-12 68 minutes

Adapting California 2020-Jan-05 61 minutes

Gaming climate change 2019-Dec-29 53 minutes

Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption 2019-Dec-22 53 minutes

White Island volcano eruption 2019-Dec-15 56 minutes

CRISPR babies scandal – more details 2019-Dec-08 71 minutes

New Malaria target 2019-Dec-02 56 minutes

Politics and Amazonia’s fires 2019-Nov-24 64 minutes

Australia burning 2019-Nov-17 56 minutes

Climate in crisis 2019-Nov-10 60 minutes

Wildfires and winds in California 2019-Nov-03 62 minutes

Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’? 2019-Oct-27 72 minutes

Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment 2019-Oct-20 61 minutes

From batteries to distant worlds 2019-Oct-13 56 minutes

Global climate inaction 2019-Sep-29 64 minutes

South East Asia choking - again 2019-Sep-25 66 minutes

Embryoids from stem cells 2019-Sep-15 60 minutes

New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion 2019-Sep-07 62 minutes

Nanotube computer says hello 2019-Aug-31 63 minutes

Amazonian fires likely to worsen 2019-Aug-24 68 minutes

Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse 2019-Aug-18 73 minutes

The birth of a new volcano 2019-May-26 63 minutes