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Unexpected Elements Episodes

  1. New Human-like Species Discovered

    The Rising Star cave system in South Africa has yielded a haul of early human bones.

  2. Global Tree Count Growing

    There is a global increase in trees

  3. Genetics of Obesity

    Can we switch obesity off with the flick of a genetic switch?

  4. Brain in a Dish

    Scientists claim to have grown an almost fully-formed human brain for the first time.

  5. Invasive Species from the Suez Canal

    Ecological alarm at invasive species entering the extended Suez Canal.

  6. Nepal-India Earthquake Risk

    Increased risk of a future major earthquake in an area that straddles Nepal and India

  7. Lessons from Hunting Cecil the Lion

    The issues surrounding hunting from population control, to poaching and for sport

  8. Earth 2.0

    Planets from the Kepler telescope include a world sharing many characteristics of Earth.

  9. Pluto Special

    Horizons mission to Pluto, new feathered dinosaur from China, and rats in Flintstone car

  10. Global Warming and the Arctic Tundra

    How global warming is affecting Arctic tundra and how it could be adding to the problem

  11. GM Wheat Trial Failure

    GM wheat trial has been ineffective at repelling aphids in the outdoor trial

  12. Diet in India

    The Indian slum children who eat too much junk food

  13. Ivory Forensics Detect Africa Poaching Hotspots

    Elephant poaching is on the rise in two main hotspots - Tanzania and Mozambique

  14. Alcohol Drinking in Wild Chimpanzees

    Wild chimpanzees partial to alcohol drinking a new study shows

  15. Global Warming Pause - Is It Valid?

    Global surface temperature data disputes the reported global warming slowdown or pause.

  16. Ageing Secrets of the Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur

    Broken robots which can soldier on. Positive stories of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

  17. El Nino

    El Nino is a weather event that happens every five years yet it is hard to predict

  18. Gene Seasonality

    Gene expression changes with the seasons

  19. The Destructive Power of the Nepalese Earthquake

    Seismologists report on the unusual shaking during the Nepalese earthquake

  20. Nepal earthquake

    Nepal earthquake devastation

  21. Artemisinin Resistant Malaria in Africa

    Malaria resistant to artemisinin drug found in Kenya

  22. 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

    25 years since the launch of the Hubble Space telescope, we celebrate its successes.

  23. Inbred Gorillas

    Claudia Hammond investigates concussion in sport and asks, will science stop play?

  24. Large Hadron Collider

    A date has been set for the reboot of the Large Hadron Collider

  25. Ebola One Year On

    A warning that all countries need to be clear of Ebola before the danger is over.

  26. Farming African Wet Savannah

    70% more food production will be required to feed the growing global population.

  27. Anthropocene Start Date

    When did humans become a geological force? Europe鈥檚 invasion of the Americas in 1500s?

  28. Solar Impulse 2鈥檚 global flight

    The sunlight-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, is about to fly around the world.

  29. Curbing mobile phone waste

    The CLEVER project that aims to curb mobile phone waste

  30. Planned obsolescence

    New research examines the ability to implant completely made-up false memories in people

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