Seismic swift

A Taylor Swift gig in Scotland made us look at human earthquakes and animal seismographs

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Lights out

A power outage in Ecuador has us pondering the darkness of blackouts

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Mushroom magic

Hallucinatory, deadly or lifesaving? Your one-stop guide to everything fungi

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Political Jet Lag

Brace yourself for presidential fights and pointless flights

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Marriage madness

Ceremonies, rings and sleep divorce

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Breaking, climbing, and surfing

Could we surf on Titan, or dance like a physicist? Olympic levels of science chat.

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Can I eat it?

The discovery of champagne in a shipwreck has us pondering preservation

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Let them eat crab

Everything you need for a French royal banquet, with an unexpected twist, of course.

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The only one

Olympians representing their countries alone got us thinking about being the only one

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A sticky situation

Two astronauts are stuck on the ISS, which got us thinking about other sticky issues.

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The world's worst tourist

Following anti-tourism protests in Spain, we're looking at the world's peskiest visitors

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Thrillseekers

The high stakes of the Paralympics has us chasing a thrill!

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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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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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All things Oregon!

Join Marnie Chesterton and science journalists Chhavi Sachdev and Jes Burns, on their Ore

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Science to make you smile

What better way to celebrate World Smile Day other than with scientific excellence

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The world's longest treasure hunt

We dig for scientific gold in the form of seeds, aliens and cats

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TV made me do it

Macron’s comments on Emily in Paris has us unpicking the power of television.

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Mystery blobs

Blobs are appearing on beaches, so the team look at the science of gooey things.

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The Swing of Things

So-called swing states inspire us to look into swing science.

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Supermassive numbers

As Russia fines Google an unpayable sum of money, we look at some extremely large numbers

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Are you not entertained?

Gladiator II is hitting the cinemas, so the Unexpected Elements team enters the arena.

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Super Science

Geopolitical superpowers have Team Unexpected on the hunt for scientific superheroes.

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Doing a deal

It's Black Friday! And Unexpected Elements are on a hunt for the best deals

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Going home

A potential homecoming for Chagossians got us investigating the science of home.

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Totally bananas

The Unexpected Elements team have gone bananas… for bananas!

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The science of Santa

The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!

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Festive trash talk

December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk

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(Re)New Year

New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science

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Scientist spotlight

Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.

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