Collapsing pensions and civilisations

French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies

• 50 mins

Wildfires and wild animals

Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.

• 50 mins

Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces

Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces

• 50 mins

Predictions from the sky and murderous fish

Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars.

• 50 mins

Unexpected elements on the sea bed

The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden

• 50 mins

Nato and the left-handed universe

Nato’s summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe

• 50 mins

Barbie in Space

How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real?

• 50 mins

Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot

Why do teenagers share passwords so often?

• 50 mins

The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas

The unexpected science of the World Cup and are banana skins hallucinogenic?

• 50 mins

Some of our universe is missing

Could science help trace Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the missing gas in the cosmos?

• 53 mins

Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option

Can scientific thinking detect political and corporate corruption?

• 50 mins

The man who couldn’t lie

Why do we believe in conspiracy theories, and what’s going on in our brains when we lie?

• 50 mins

Protecting the Moon

India's lunar landing has us looking at unexpected science around the moon

• 50 mins

Zombies, cows and coups

The wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies and the science hiding behind coups

• 53 mins

Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days

As oceans take the heat for global warming, fish find it harder to learn their way.

• 50 mins

Can technology read our mind?

The UN General Assembly has us examining how our brains process language

• 50 mins

How inflation affects the entire cosmos

The science behind news about inflation leads us to the first moments of the universe.

• 50 mins

Complete shutdown

How would it feel wake up several years later?

• 50 mins

How bedbugs took over the world

Why is bedbugs' unconventional mode of reproduction so successful?

• 53 mins

Putting Madonna to the test

Do Madonna's lyrics stand up to scientific scrutiny?

• 50 mins

Fashion to dye for

As Lagos Fashion Week begins, we follow the trends into science

• 50 mins

Scary science

Is fear good for you? In the week where many celebrated Halloween, we look at the science

• 50 mins

Working 70 hours a week

If you work twice as long, do you get twice as much done?

• 50 mins

Why we need to talk toilets

Nov 19 is UN World Toilet Day. Can the world sanitation crisis be tackled?

• 50 mins

All about cricket(s)

The science of spitting on cricket balls, particle accelerators and insect sounds

• 50 mins

Meetings with intelligent worms

From worm blobs to mangoes - there’s more to meetings than you thought.

• 50 mins

Boring science

How might our future lie underground?

• 50 mins

An exploration of empathy

On the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, we look at empathy

• 50 mins

A very dark day

The solstice takes us on a journey through darkness and light.

• 50 mins

The Best of Unexpected Elements

Marnie Chesterton and Caroline Steel look back at some of the best bits of the show.

• 49 mins