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Unexpected Elements Episodes

  1. Moving Mountains; Endangered World Cup Football Mascot; Taming the Sun

    China is flattening mountains to create land to build cities on.

  2. Mapping the Ocean Floor; Colorado River; Beauty and the Brain; Footballers Heat

    We know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of Mars and the Moon.

  3. Living Independently with Dementia

    How can we help people with dementia to live independently for longer?

  4. Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf, Moth Noises, Brain Boosting devices

    Key glaciers in West Antarctica are in an irreversible retreat

  5. Universe Model; Carlos Frenk; Colin Pillinger; Downing Fishermen;

    Illustris - the latest Universe model

  6. Chernobyl Birds, Exo Skeleton, Frozen Faecal Transplants

    How some birds in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are adapting well to the radiation levels

  7. Y Chromosome; Quacking Ocean; Everest Avalanche

    How the male Y Chromosome evolved

  8. Kepler 186F Sperm and egg, Facebook, Russian Science;Peter Higgs; Alcoholics

    New Kepler-mission discovery.

  9. Japanese whaling ban, Arty brains, Hoarding disorder

    How much scientific data been collected from the expeditions in the Antarctic?

  10. Dating the Moon, Mission to Mars, Wiki houses

    A new way to date the moon, Europe’s first mission to Mars, building a house from scratch

  11. Noses; GM; Back pain; TB; Animal decisions; Teen e-lives

    Human Nose can detect one trillion odours, far more than we previously thought.

  12. Cosmic inflation; Chicken from Hell: Crowd Psychology

    Big Bang’s gravitational waves discovered? Views from cosmology’s greatest minds.

  13. Stem cells questioned; Black box; Ultrathin sensors

    Controversy has arisen over stem cell research published earlier this year.

  14. Chemical weapons, 30,000 year old virus, Maternal health Ethiopia

    The difficulties of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons

  15. Windfarms, Twins and pain, Wearable computers

    Offshore windfarms could stop hurricanes

  16. Bumblebee disease, HIV Teens, Fear and Neurons

    Declining bee populations, the plight of teens with HIV, and inhibiting fearful memories

  17. Nuclear fusion, genetic diseases, whale watching from space

    Breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion.

  18. Mount Sinabung; Blind mice; Oceans and climate change

    Relief efforts are continuing at Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra.

  19. Stem cells; Childhood amnesia; Neanderthal DNA

    A cheap and simple way to make stem cells.

  20. Rosetta Probe to Comet Awakes

    The Rosetta space probe awakes to begin its final approach to a distant comet

  21. Gene Therapy for Eyes

    How Gene therapy can improve the vision of patients who would have gone blind

  22. Deadly pneumonic plague in Madagascar, importance of carnivores, time travelling clues on the internet.

    Deadly pneumonic plague in Madagascar

  23. Solitary confinement

    Psychologists and political prisoners reveal how to stay sane in solitary confinement

  24. The Impact of War on Syrian Children

    It's a misconception that children are resilient - what helps to alleviate the suffering?

  25. Microbes, Music and Mice

    Reversing ageing in mice and the potential dangers of antimicrobial handwashes.

  26. Planets, Crystallography, Dementia

    Earth and planetary science

  27. Ancient Human DNA Recovered, Comet ISON, Panspermia

    400,000 year old DNA from ancient human remains is recovered

  28. Bananas threatened, Bedtime aspirin, Microbial terroir

    The deadly Panama disease is spreading throughout banana crops worldwide.

  29. Extragalactic neutrinos, Hepatitis C in Egypt, Satellite Maps

    Discovery in particle physics marks new era for astronomy

  30. Typhoon Haiyan

    Ferocious winds drove powerful storm surge

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