Unexpected Elements

By BBC World Service

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.

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Episodes (8)

Putting science on the map

Is everyone accounted for?

The ribbiting science of frogs

Chernobyl: 40 years later

The soaring price of condoms

100 years of Sir David Attenborough

Hantavirus outbreak and what’s in a name

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