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217 episodes
2019 to present
Average episode: 60 minutes
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Podcaster's summary: The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.
| Episodes |
| 2024-Apr-19 • 49 minutes Computer memories and quantum futures From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud. |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 50 minutes Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry Beyonce's reappraisal of who can do country music spurs an Unexpected Elements hoedown |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 50 minutes Unexpected elections What do stickleback fish have to do with millions of people’s voting intentions? |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 50 minutes G.O.A.T The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest science to boot! |
| 2024-Mar-21 • 50 minutes Ancient water, modern solutions With water shortages and melting ice caps making the news we look at unexpected solutions |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 50 minutes Fandom: The next generation K-Pop fans send us on a journey into fandom through Star Trek, football and physics |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 50 minutes Unexpected Oscars As award season reaches its climax, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony. |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 50 minutes Leaping in Sync As the leap year helps keep us in sync, we explore nature’s ways of staying in rhythm |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 50 minutes Going the distance A tribute to marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum and the science behind his record performances |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 50 minutes Not so random acts of kindness Are African spiders behind the ultimate act of kindness in nature? |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 50 minutes Deep in thought News of a microchip implanted in a human brain sends our imagination running wild |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 51 minutes How plankton made mountains The world’s largest cruise ship has set sail – but what stowaways are hiding onboard? |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 50 minutes Populations of people, frogs and microbes With China’s population declining, would decreasing populations be better for the planet? |
| 2024-Jan-18 • 50 minutes Rulers and the rules of ageing Under the stress and strains of leadership, how might power affect youthfulness? |
| 2024-Jan-11 • 50 minutes Super corals and science diplomacy Could tensions around the Red Sea affect research into heat-resistant super corals? |
| 2024-Jan-04 • 50 minutes Timing is everything Can you visualize time? We don’t all see it the same way |
| 2023-Dec-28 • 50 minutes The Best of Unexpected Elements Marnie Chesterton and Caroline Steel look back at some of the best bits of the show. |
| 2023-Dec-21 • 50 minutes A very dark day The solstice takes us on a journey through darkness and light. |
| 2023-Dec-14 • 50 minutes An exploration of empathy On the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, we look at empathy |
| 2023-Dec-07 • 50 minutes Boring science How might our future lie underground? |
| 2023-Nov-30 • 50 minutes Meetings with intelligent worms From worm blobs to mangoes - there’s more to meetings than you thought. |
| 2023-Nov-23 • 50 minutes All about cricket(s) The science of spitting on cricket balls, particle accelerators and insect sounds |
| 2023-Nov-16 • 50 minutes Why we need to talk toilets Nov 19 is UN World Toilet Day. Can the world sanitation crisis be tackled? |
| 2023-Nov-09 • 50 minutes Working 70 hours a week If you work twice as long, do you get twice as much done? |
| 2023-Nov-02 • 50 minutes Scary science Is fear good for you? In the week where many celebrated Halloween, we look at the science |
| 2023-Oct-26 • 50 minutes Fashion to dye for As Lagos Fashion Week begins, we follow the trends into science |
| 2023-Oct-19 • 50 minutes Putting Madonna to the test Do Madonna's lyrics stand up to scientific scrutiny? |
| 2023-Oct-12 • 53 minutes How bedbugs took over the world Why is bedbugs' unconventional mode of reproduction so successful? |
| 2023-Oct-05 • 50 minutes Complete shutdown How would it feel wake up several years later? |
| 2023-Sep-28 • 50 minutes How inflation affects the entire cosmos The science behind news about inflation leads us to the first moments of the universe. |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 51 minutes Can technology read our mind? The UN General Assembly has us examining how our brains process language |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 50 minutes Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days As oceans take the heat for global warming, fish find it harder to learn their way. |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 53 minutes Zombies, cows and coups The wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies and the science hiding behind coups |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 50 minutes Protecting the Moon India's lunar landing has us looking at unexpected science around the moon |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 50 minutes The man who couldn’t lie Why do we believe in conspiracy theories, and what’s going on in our brains when we lie? |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 50 minutes Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option Can scientific thinking detect political and corporate corruption? |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 54 minutes Some of our universe is missing Could science help trace Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the missing gas in the cosmos? |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 50 minutes The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas The unexpected science of the World Cup and are banana skins hallucinogenic? |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 50 minutes Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot Why do teenagers share passwords so often? |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 50 minutes Barbie in Space How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real? |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 50 minutes Nato and the left-handed universe Nato’s summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 50 minutes Unexpected elements on the sea bed The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden |
| 2023-Jun-29 • 50 minutes Predictions from the sky and murderous fish Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars. |
| 2023-Jun-22 • 51 minutes Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces |
| 2023-Jun-15 • 50 minutes Wildfires and wild animals Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals. |
| 2023-Jun-08 • 50 minutes Collapsing pensions and civilisations French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies |
| 2023-Jun-01 • 50 minutes Migrate ideas The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour supporting AI |
| 2023-May-25 • 51 minutes Signals, seaweed and space The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity. |
| 2023-May-18 • 54 minutes Co-operation and cohesion Social cohesion, cellular cohesion and glue. Science stories inspired by election news |
| 2023-May-11 • 51 minutes Coronation exploration Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects? |
| 2023-Mar-19 • 62 minutes Return of Cyclone Freddy Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month. |
| 2023-Mar-12 • 62 minutes Human genome editing: Promise and Peril What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing? |
| 2023-Mar-05 • 59 minutes Drought worsens in East Africa Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again. |
| 2023-Feb-26 • 65 minutes Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa. |
| 2023-Feb-26 • 77 minutes Animals at the Wuhan Market What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic? |
| 2023-Feb-19 • 55 minutes CRISPR & bioethics He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018. |
| 2023-Feb-11 • 54 minutes Turkey-Syria earthquake Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record |
| 2023-Feb-05 • 53 minutes Science on ice The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons |
| 2023-Jan-29 • 51 minutes Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain |
| 2023-Jan-22 • 54 minutes Climate science activism What happens when climate scientists take to the streets? |
| 2023-Jan-15 • 61 minutes Atmospheric rivers The phenomenon driving California’s extreme weather |
| 2023-Jan-08 • 57 minutes One year on from the Tonga eruption We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago. |
| 2023-Jan-01 • 64 minutes The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months NASA's James Webb Telescope: science in the images |
| 2022-Dec-25 • 59 minutes Mosquito pesticide failing Mosquito pesticide failing |
| 2022-Dec-18 • 68 minutes Fusion milestone Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines |
| 2022-Dec-11 • 63 minutes Ancient warmth in Greenland Climate change in the Arctic |
| 2022-Dec-04 • 65 minutes COVID spreads in China COVID spreads in China |
| 2022-Nov-27 • 55 minutes A distant planet’s atmosphere A distant planet's atmosphere |
| 2022-Nov-20 • 62 minutes Online harassment of Covid scientists Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats. |
| 2022-Nov-13 • 68 minutes Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified. |
| 2022-Nov-06 • 54 minutes What peat can tell us about our future Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points. |
| 2022-Oct-30 • 54 minutes Seismic events on Mars New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution. |
| 2022-Oct-23 • 54 minutes The most powerful explosion ever recorded A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed |
| 2022-Oct-16 • 59 minutes Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders |
| 2022-Oct-09 • 57 minutes Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements |
| 2022-Oct-01 • 54 minutes The final moments of DART Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth |
| 2022-Sep-24 • 54 minutes Should we mine the deep sea? A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals. |
| 2022-Sep-18 • 57 minutes Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan. |
| 2022-Sep-11 • 63 minutes The genetics of human intelligence A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development |
| 2022-Sep-04 • 55 minutes The China Heatwave and the New Normal The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere |
| 2022-Aug-28 • 54 minutes Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations |
| 2022-Aug-20 • 55 minutes Deadly drought The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought |
| 2022-Aug-14 • 55 minutes Icelandic volcano erupts again Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption |
| 2022-Aug-07 • 57 minutes Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells |
| 2022-Jul-30 • 55 minutes The first galaxies at the universe's dawn James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time |
| 2022-Jul-23 • 56 minutes Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme? |
| 2022-Jul-16 • 63 minutes First images from the James Webb Space Telescope A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope. |
| 2022-Jul-11 • 65 minutes Long Covid ‘brain fog’ New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’ |
| 2022-Jul-03 • 59 minutes Extreme heat death risk in Latin America New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities |
| 2022-Jun-26 • 69 minutes Monster microbe Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash. |
| 2022-Jun-19 • 61 minutes Thirty years after the Earth Summit Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved? |
| 2022-Jun-11 • 61 minutes Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts Science news and highlights of the week |
| 2022-Jun-04 • 57 minutes Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants? Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences. |
| 2022-May-29 • 57 minutes Heat death by volcano and other stories New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed |
| 2022-May-21 • 59 minutes Death in the rainforest Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years |
| 2022-May-15 • 65 minutes Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy |
| 2022-May-08 • 61 minutes Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100 Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century |
| 2022-May-01 • 66 minutes The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame? |
| 2022-Apr-24 • 68 minutes Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden |
| 2022-Apr-17 • 75 minutes How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression |
| 2022-Apr-10 • 62 minutes Tsunami detective in Tonga What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January? |
| 2022-Apr-03 • 58 minutes Radioactive Red Forest Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation? |
| 2022-Mar-20 • 59 minutes Covid in the sewers Could novel forms of the virus be lurking in wastewater? |
| 2022-Mar-13 • 64 minutes Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong? The territory is experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths |
| 2022-Mar-06 • 58 minutes Covid -19 origins New analysis shows where inside the Wuhan market the virus first showed itself. |
| 2022-Feb-27 • 58 minutes Reforming the 'China Initiative' US scheme accused of persecuting scientists is to be refocused |
| 2022-Feb-20 • 64 minutes Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology Messenger RNA used in vaccines against Covid-19 has been used to encourage bone healing |
| 2022-Feb-13 • 65 minutes Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab The inside story of Wuhan’s coronavirus lab, |
| 2022-Feb-06 • 64 minutes Identifying a more infectious HIV variant A new form of HIV has been uncovered in the Netherlands. |
| 2022-Jan-30 • 57 minutes The roots of Long Covid Detecting the early signals for long Covid |
| 2022-Jan-23 • 60 minutes Tonga eruption – how it happened Why a small volcanic eruption had a global impact |
| 2022-Jan-16 • 58 minutes Have we got it wrong on Omicron? It seems to be no more viable than the earlier delta variant |
| 2022-Jan-09 • 58 minutes CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world? Could a cheap and conventional vaccine for Coivd19 end the pandemic? |
| 2021-Dec-26 • 61 minutes Omicron – mild or monster? Cases of the latest coronavirus variant are mild, so far – but that’s not the whole story |
| 2021-Dec-19 • 63 minutes Omicron’s rapid replication rate Omicron replicates seventy times faster than earlier variants. |
| 2021-Dec-12 • 70 minutes Can the weather trigger a volcano? The eruption of Semeru in Java was linked to heavy rain |
| 2021-Dec-05 • 63 minutes Omicron, racism and trust How the global political response to the new variant is hampering science in Africa |
| 2021-Nov-28 • 63 minutes Deliberately doomed dart The sacrificial space mission designed to protect the Earth from asteroid impact. |
| 2021-Nov-21 • 58 minutes The end for coal power? The fossil fuel is on target to be replaced with renewables in both India and China. |
| 2021-Nov-14 • 53 minutes Bambi got Covid Why the discovery of Covid 19 in white-tail deer has implications for climate policy |
| 2021-Nov-07 • 73 minutes Jet fuel from thin air A solar powered solution to emissions creates aviation fuel by extracting gases from air |
| 2021-Oct-31 • 62 minutes Can we still avoid climate catastrophe? The UNEP Emissions Gap Report reveals we need to do more to reach our climate goals. |
| 2021-Oct-24 • 53 minutes Red blood cells’ surprising immune function New research reveals red blood cells form part of the body’s immune defence. |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 59 minutes Wetlands under attack The invasive cordgrass taking over China’s coastal wetlands. |
| 2021-Oct-10 • 64 minutes Youngest rock samples from the moon Youngest samples from lava flows on the moon returned by Chang’e-5 mission |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 62 minutes Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa The spread of resistance to one of the most important anti-malarials |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 64 minutes New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats Study of bats in Laos has identified viruses with a similar spike protein to SARS-CoV-2 |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 64 minutes Ebola can remain dormant for five years Ebola infections can re-emerge after five years, and cause new outbreaks |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 54 minutes Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal 90% of coal and 60% of oil and gas must remain untouched for world to meet climate target |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 68 minutes Methane - a climate solution? Can reductions in this potent greenhouse gas help keep global temperature rises down? |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 65 minutes Record-shattering weather Why we should expect more sudden extreme temperatures |
| 2021-Jul-04 • 70 minutes Insects in incredible detail Insects; climate change & the law; missions to Venus; masks with Covid detecting sensors |
| 2021-May-29 • 55 minutes Nyiragongo Eruption Understanding ‘ The world’s most dangerous volcano’ |
| 2021-May-23 • 72 minutes Robot revolution The robot arm that comes with feelings |
| 2021-May-16 • 60 minutes Covid and clean air How improving indoor air quality can prevent illness from many viruses |
| 2021-May-09 • 66 minutes Africa’s oldest burial A fossilised child reveals an ancient caring society |
| 2021-Mar-07 • 54 minutes Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull Scanning Little Foot’s skull at the Diamond Light Source. |
| 2021-Feb-28 • 70 minutes Waste not, want not Novel recycling to make new products |
| 2021-Feb-21 • 66 minutes Weird weather Why is there snow in Texas? |
| 2021-Feb-14 • 73 minutes Perseverance approaches Mars How Perseverance will land on Mars |
| 2021-Feb-07 • 70 minutes Mixing Covid vaccines Can Covid vaccines be mixed? |
| 2021-Jan-24 • 62 minutes Saving the Northern White Rhino Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction |
| 2021-Jan-17 • 63 minutes Gravitational waves and black holes Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes |
| 2021-Jan-10 • 54 minutes New variants of SARS-Cov2 SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants |
| 2021-Jan-03 • 53 minutes Coping with Covid Making sense of a year of confusion |
| 2021-Jan-02 • 68 minutes 2021 the year of variants The year began with Alpha and ends with Omicron, what have we learnt? |
| 2020-Dec-27 • 54 minutes A year with Covid -19 Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response |
| 2020-Dec-20 • 68 minutes Covid -19 – Mutations are normal Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact. |
| 2020-Dec-13 • 56 minutes The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus Around three-quarters of the city’s population are thought to have been infected |
| 2020-Dec-08 • 67 minutes Freak weather getting even freakier This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave |
| 2020-Nov-29 • 64 minutes Vaccines – the Covid confusion The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release. |
| 2020-Nov-22 • 64 minutes Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity Immunity to the virus may last longer than previously thought |
| 2020-Nov-15 • 66 minutes Covid-19 defeats US Marines The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions |
| 2020-Nov-08 • 59 minutes Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine? |
| 2020-Nov-01 • 64 minutes Osiris Rex stows asteroid material Science news and highlights of the week |
| 2020-Oct-25 • 61 minutes Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid Science news and highlights of the week |
| 2020-Oct-18 • 68 minutes Covid -19 mortality Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries? |
| 2020-Oct-11 • 71 minutes Do Covid–19 mutations matter? Results from the most detailed investigation to date into mutations in the Covid-19 virus |
| 2020-Oct-04 • 71 minutes Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders? Are children are spreading the virus more than any other group |
| 2020-Sep-27 • 76 minutes Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission They're only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread |
| 2020-Sep-20 • 56 minutes Malaria resistance breakthrough Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments. |
| 2020-Sep-13 • 70 minutes Covid -19 science versus politics Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward? |
| 2020-Sep-06 • 62 minutes Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat? More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active |
| 2020-Aug-29 • 66 minutes Covid-19 Therapy Controversy Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19? |
| 2020-Aug-23 • 60 minutes Trouble in Greenland Greenland Ice Sheet; stalagmites & climate change; |
| 2020-Aug-16 • 72 minutes Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine. |
| 2020-Aug-09 • 60 minutes Counting the heat health threat from climate change Future heat death toll; infections we catch from wildlife; |
| 2020-Aug-02 • 62 minutes NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars |
| 2020-Jul-26 • 62 minutes Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year. |
| 2020-Jul-18 • 54 minutes How long do Covid-19 antibodies last? New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last. |
| 2020-Jul-11 • 68 minutes Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method |
| 2020-Jul-05 • 64 minutes Covid-19 and children Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery |
| 2020-Jun-28 • 67 minutes Record high temperatures – in the Arctic Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit |
| 2020-Jun-21 • 72 minutes Covid -19 hope for severe cases A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful |
| 2020-Jun-14 • 64 minutes Food security, locusts and Covid -19 Efforts to irradiate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic |
| 2020-Jun-07 • 65 minutes The medical complexity of Covid -19 Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart |
| 2020-May-31 • 78 minutes Brazil’s Covid chaos Numbers of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show |
| 2020-May-17 • 78 minutes Loosening lockdown Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key. |
| 2020-May-10 • 75 minutes Covid -19 new hope from blood tests Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19 |
| 2020-May-03 • 84 minutes Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19 Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery |
| 2020-Apr-26 • 77 minutes Presidents and pandemics Why they don’t mix |
| 2020-Apr-19 • 50 minutes Italy, getting Covid 19 under control Tentative steps to relax the lockdown |
| 2020-Apr-12 • 54 minutes The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps |
| 2020-Apr-05 • 58 minutes Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19 ? |
| 2020-Mar-29 • 67 minutes The science of social distancing Research shows most important measure in limiting spread of Covid 19 is social distancing |
| 2020-Mar-22 • 67 minutes Covid -19, are you carrying the virus? Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms |
| 2020-Mar-15 • 68 minutes Covid -19 how infectious is it really? As numbers continue to rise we look at pattern of transmission & prospects for treatments |
| 2020-Mar-08 • 62 minutes Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change A study shows fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate. |
| 2020-Mar-01 • 68 minutes Tracking coronavirus spread More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus? |
| 2020-Feb-23 • 60 minutes Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk |
| 2020-Feb-16 • 65 minutes CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading. |
| 2020-Feb-09 • 62 minutes Coronavirus, prospects for treatment? Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus? |
| 2020-Feb-02 • 67 minutes Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus Analysis of the impact of the new virus. |
| 2020-Jan-26 • 67 minutes Wuhan Coronavirus What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China |
| 2020-Jan-19 • 61 minutes Mount Taal volcano Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning |
| 2020-Jan-12 • 68 minutes Australia’s extreme fire season 2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind continued bushfires |
| 2020-Jan-05 • 61 minutes Adapting California Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes |
| 2019-Dec-29 • 54 minutes Gaming climate change Can a role playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes? |
| 2019-Dec-22 • 54 minutes Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami |
| 2019-Dec-15 • 56 minutes White Island volcano eruption Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous |
| 2019-Dec-08 • 71 minutes CRISPR babies scandal – more details Science news and highlights of the week |
| 2019-Dec-02 • 56 minutes New Malaria target Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance |
| 2019-Nov-24 • 65 minutes Politics and Amazonia’s fires Scientists refute government claims that this year’s Amazon fires have been normal |
| 2019-Nov-17 • 57 minutes Australia burning To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change? |
| 2019-Nov-10 • 60 minutes Climate in crisis Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking |
| 2019-Nov-03 • 63 minutes Wildfires and winds in California How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California |
| 2019-Oct-27 • 72 minutes Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’? Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time? |
| 2019-Oct-20 • 62 minutes Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment How malaria jumped species and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment |
| 2019-Oct-13 • 57 minutes From batteries to distant worlds Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries |
| 2019-Sep-29 • 64 minutes Global climate inaction The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action? |
| 2019-Sep-25 • 66 minutes South East Asia choking - again Why even staying indoors offers no escape from fires across the region |
| 2019-Sep-15 • 60 minutes Embryoids from stem cells Embryoids from stem cells; water vapour in atmosphere of rocky exoplanet |
| 2019-Sep-07 • 63 minutes New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion An isotopic fingerprint is reported of a nuclear explosion in Russia last month. |
| 2019-Aug-31 • 63 minutes Nanotube computer says hello A 16bit computer processor made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled to the world |
| 2019-Aug-24 • 68 minutes Amazonian fires likely to worsen Is it going to be a particularly bad burning season for Brazil’s rainforest? |
| 2019-Aug-18 • 74 minutes Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse Scientists investigate the precise events around last year’s lethal eruption |
| 2019-May-26 • 63 minutes The birth of a new volcano A new undersea volcano has appeared off the coast of East Africa |