Unexpected Elements
A podcast by BBC World Service - Fridays
263 Episodes
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The China Heatwave and the New Normal
Published: 04/09/2022 -
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
Published: 28/08/2022 -
Deadly drought
Published: 20/08/2022 -
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Published: 14/08/2022 -
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
Published: 07/08/2022 -
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
Published: 30/07/2022 -
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
Published: 23/07/2022 -
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Published: 16/07/2022 -
Long Covid ‘brain fog’
Published: 11/07/2022 -
Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
Published: 03/07/2022 -
Monster microbe
Published: 26/06/2022 -
Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Published: 19/06/2022 -
Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
Published: 11/06/2022 -
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
Published: 04/06/2022 -
Heat death by volcano and other stories
Published: 29/05/2022 -
Death in the rainforest
Published: 21/05/2022 -
Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Published: 15/05/2022 -
Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
Published: 08/05/2022 -
The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
Published: 01/05/2022 -
Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
Published: 24/04/2022
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.
