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Unexpected Elements

Computer memories and quantum futuresComputer memories and quantum futures

Released On: 19 Apr 2024

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From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud.

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Unexpected Elements
Computer memories and quantum futures
From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud.
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Unexpected Elements
A scientific séance
Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics
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Unexpected Elements
Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
Rampaging horses lead us to horse cloning and what horseriding can teach driverless cars
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Unexpected Elements
Unexpected birthday party
It's party time and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and singing
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Unexpected Elements
Winning Losers
Does the winner really always take it all?
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Unexpected Elements
A world going on underground
In bunkers, basements and boreholes, we explore life going on underground
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Unexpected Elements
Eternal flames
From Olympic torches to zombie fires, we stoke the flames which do not go out
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Unexpected Elements
Balloon manoeuvres
Balloons in South Korea have us floating ideas about airships and helium.
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Unexpected Elements
An unexpected burger
After McDonalds’ recent court case loss the team cook up a scientific culinary delight
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Unexpected Elements
Seismic swift
A Taylor Swift gig in Scotland made us look at human earthquakes and animal seismographs
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Unexpected Elements
Lights out
A power outage in Ecuador has us pondering the darkness of blackouts
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Unexpected Elements
Mushroom magic
Hallucinatory, deadly or lifesaving? Your one-stop guide to everything fungi
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Unexpected Elements
Political Jet Lag
Brace yourself for presidential fights and pointless flights
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Unexpected Elements
Marriage madness
Ceremonies, rings and sleep divorce
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Unexpected Elements
Breaking, climbing, and surfing
Could we surf on Titan, or dance like a physicist? Olympic levels of science chat.
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Unexpected Elements
Can I eat it?
The discovery of champagne in a shipwreck has us pondering preservation
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Unexpected Elements
Let them eat crab
Everything you need for a French royal banquet, with an unexpected twist, of course.
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Unexpected Elements
The only one
Olympians representing their countries alone got us thinking about being the only one
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Unexpected Elements
A sticky situation
Two astronauts are stuck on the ISS, which got us thinking about other sticky issues.
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Unexpected Elements
The world's worst tourist
Following anti-tourism protests in Spain, we're looking at the world's peskiest visitors
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Unexpected Elements
Thrillseekers
The high stakes of the Paralympics has us chasing a thrill!
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō: The new Māori Kuini
The crowing of the new Māori Kuini (Queen) is cause for a scientific celebration
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Unexpected Elements
Shiny: Why we are dazzled by new sparkly things
Like magpies, we're obsessed with everything shiny. What is behind this attraction?
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Unexpected Elements
All things Oregon!
Join Marnie Chesterton and science journalists Chhavi Sachdev and Jes Burns, on their Ore
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Unexpected Elements
Science to make you smile
What better way to celebrate World Smile Day other than with scientific excellence
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Unexpected Elements
The world's longest treasure hunt
We dig for scientific gold in the form of seeds, aliens and cats
49 mins
Unexpected Elements
TV made me do it
Macron’s comments on Emily in Paris has us unpicking the power of television.
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Unexpected Elements
Mystery blobs
Blobs are appearing on beaches, so the team look at the science of gooey things.
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Unexpected Elements
The Swing of Things
So-called swing states inspire us to look into swing science.
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Unexpected Elements
Supermassive numbers
As Russia fines Google an unpayable sum of money, we look at some extremely large numbers
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Unexpected Elements
Are you not entertained?
Gladiator II is hitting the cinemas, so the Unexpected Elements team enters the arena.
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