Science bears fruit
Long live the king – of mangoes! In India the famed ‘king of mangoes’, the Alphonso mango, is in drastically short supply after a particular...
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20 of 329 episodesCelebrating science on Africa Day
How do you translate the latest science work across the 2000 different languages spoken around the African continent? And have you heard of...
Unexpected enhancements
Have you ever wondered what happen to salmon when too much cocaine seeps into their rivers? Inspired by the Enhanced Games, we lookat unexpe...
Hantavirus outbreak and what’s in a name
An outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship has us looking at the unexpected science around the disease. First up, why is this o...
One hundred years of Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough is arguably the world’s favourite broadcaster, and this week he’s blowing out the candles on his 100th birthday cake....
The soaring price of condoms
The blockade on the strait of Hormuz has led to an unexpected consequence – condom prices are set to increase by up to 30 percent! This has...
Chernobyl: 40 years later
On 26th April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, releasing vast amounts of radiation. Now, 40 years l...
The ribbiting science of frogs
In 2025, Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova picked up some spliced frog embryos from a laboratory in France and brought them back to the...
Is everyone accounted for?
This month, India began the immense undertaking of surveying its population of 1.4 billion people in the world’s largest ever census. Inspir...
Putting science on the map
China’s ambitious underwater mapping operation takes us on a voyage into the depths of ocean and map science. We look at what a network of u...
A bumper edition
Japanese pedestrians have been forcefully colliding with each other in a spate of butsukari otoko – or ‘bumping man’ – incidents and the Une...
In the name of science
After the end of a near 17-year legal battle between popstar Katy Perry and fashion designer Katie Perry, the Unexpected Elements team has b...
Out for blood
With this year’s Oscars on the horizon, and vampire film Sinners nominated for a record-breaking 16 awards, the Unexpected Elements team sin...
The colour of science
The Hindu festival of Holi has the Unexpected Elements team delving into the science of colour. First up, forget chicken and egg, we bring y...
A sweet treat
A dip in global cocoa prices got the Unexpected Elements team wondering about chocolate science. First, we look at how the microbial communi...
Seeing double
Identical twins on trial for murder in France have left forensic experts unable to answer the question of which one pulled the gun’s trigger...
Are you lucky?
K-pop fans in Taiwan have been turning to the God of love in the hope it will boost their luck in getting concert tickets. It got the Unexpe...
Let the games begin
The Winter Olympics has the Unexpected Elements team looking into some of the incredible science behind the sports. First up, the tale of In...
Are you still with us?
Are You Dead? That’s the name of an app that’s gone massively viral in China. Every two days, you click a green button to confirm you’re ali...
Banging the science drum
After the leaders of Japan and South Korea ended their summit with the two participating in a drumming duet, we’re marching to the beat of o...
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