The news you know, the science you don’t.
World Service,·333 episodes
Like magpies, we're obsessed with everything shiny. What is behind this attraction?
20 Sep 2024,·49 mins
The crowing of the new Māori Kuini (Queen) is cause for a scientific celebration
13 Sep 2024,·49 mins
The high stakes of the Paralympics has us chasing a thrill!
06 Sep 2024,·49 mins
Following anti-tourism protests in Spain, we're looking at the world's peskiest visitors
30 Aug 2024,·49 mins
Two astronauts are stuck on the ISS, which got us thinking about other sticky issues.
23 Aug 2024,·49 mins
Olympians representing their countries alone got us thinking about being the only one
16 Aug 2024,·49 mins
Everything you need for a French royal banquet, with an unexpected twist, of course.
09 Aug 2024,·49 mins
The discovery of champagne in a shipwreck has us pondering preservation
02 Aug 2024,·49 mins
Could we surf on Titan, or dance like a physicist? Olympic levels of science chat.
26 Jul 2024,·49 mins
Ceremonies, rings and sleep divorce
19 Jul 2024,·49 mins
Brace yourself for presidential fights and pointless flights
12 Jul 2024,·49 mins
Hallucinatory, deadly or lifesaving? Your one-stop guide to everything fungi
05 Jul 2024,·49 mins
A power outage in Ecuador has us pondering the darkness of blackouts
28 Jun 2024,·49 mins
A Taylor Swift gig in Scotland made us look at human earthquakes and animal seismographs
21 Jun 2024,·49 mins
After McDonalds’ recent court case loss the team cook up a scientific culinary delight
14 Jun 2024,·49 mins
Balloons in South Korea have us floating ideas about airships and helium.
07 Jun 2024,·49 mins
From Olympic torches to zombie fires, we stoke the flames which do not go out
31 May 2024,·49 mins
In bunkers, basements and boreholes, we explore life going on underground
24 May 2024,·49 mins
Does the winner really always take it all?
17 May 2024,·49 mins
It's party time and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and singing
10 May 2024,·49 mins
Rampaging horses lead us to horse cloning and what horseriding can teach driverless cars
03 May 2024,·49 mins
Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics
26 Apr 2024,·50 mins
From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud.
19 Apr 2024,·49 mins
Beyonce's reappraisal of who can do country music spurs an Unexpected Elements hoedown
12 Apr 2024,·49 mins
What do stickleback fish have to do with millions of people’s voting intentions?
05 Apr 2024,·50 mins
The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest science to boot!
28 Mar 2024,·50 mins
With water shortages and melting ice caps making the news we look at unexpected solutions
21 Mar 2024,·50 mins
K-Pop fans send us on a journey into fandom through Star Trek, football and physics
14 Mar 2024,·50 mins
As award season reaches its climax, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony.
07 Mar 2024,·50 mins
As the leap year helps keep us in sync, we explore nature’s ways of staying in rhythm
29 Feb 2024,·50 mins
