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Unexpected Elements Episodes

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    Coronation exploration

    Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects?

  2. Animals at the Wuhan Market

    What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?

  3. Return of Cyclone Freddy

    Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.

  4. Human genome editing: Promise and Peril

    What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing?

  5. Drought worsens in East Africa

    Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.

  6. Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

    Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.

  7. CRISPR & bioethics

    He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018.

  8. Turkey-Syria earthquake

    Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record

  9. Science on ice

    The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons

  10. Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

    A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain

  11. Climate science activism

    What happens when climate scientists take to the streets?

  12. Atmospheric rivers

    The phenomenon driving California’s extreme weather

  13. One year on from the Tonga eruption

    We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.

  14. The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months

    NASA's James Webb Telescope: science in the images

  15. Mosquito pesticide failing

    Mosquito pesticide failing

  16. Fusion milestone

    Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines

  17. Ancient warmth in Greenland

    Climate change in the Arctic

  18. COVID spreads in China

    COVID spreads in China

  19. A distant planet’s atmosphere

    A distant planet's atmosphere

  20. Online harassment of Covid scientists

    Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats.

  21. Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

    Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified.

  22. What peat can tell us about our future

    Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.

  23. Seismic events on Mars

    New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.

  24. The most powerful explosion ever recorded

    A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed

  25. Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

    Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders

  26. Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

    We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements

  27. The final moments of DART

    Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth

  28. Should we mine the deep sea?

    A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.

  29. Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

    A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.

  30. The genetics of human intelligence

    A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development

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