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Unexpected Elements

The world's longest treasure huntThe world's longest treasure hunt

Released On: 11 Oct 2024

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

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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
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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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Unexpected Elements
Super Science
Geopolitical superpowers have Team Unexpected on the hunt for scientific superheroes.
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Unexpected Elements
Doing a deal
It's Black Friday! And Unexpected Elements are on a hunt for the best deals
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Unexpected Elements
Going home
A potential homecoming for Chagossians got us investigating the science of home.
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Unexpected Elements
Totally bananas
The Unexpected Elements team have gone bananas… for bananas!
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Unexpected Elements
The science of Santa
The Unexpected Elements team are unwrapping the science of Santa!
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Unexpected Elements
Festive trash talk
December is a month of waste, rubbish and trash talk
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Unexpected Elements
(Re)New Year
New year is giving Team Unexpected renewed chances to learn about regenerative science
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Unexpected Elements
Scientist spotlight
Humans outrunning horses, mountains made from plankton and much, much more.
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Unexpected Elements
Circles, circumferences and Covid
From ancient Earth measurements to viral cycles and the science of friendly limits
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Unexpected Elements
Keep it clean
A whole bathtub of science, from brains cleaning themselves to how space keeps sparkling
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Unexpected Elements
Snake science
The Unexpected Elements team are talking all things snakes!
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Unexpected Elements
All by myself
The Unexpected Elements team are discussing isolation.
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Unexpected Elements
Let’s talk about love
Dig into the science of love from monogamous rodents to AI chatbots and compatibility
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Unexpected Elements
Standing on the shoulders of giants
The Unexpected Elements team are going supersized.
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Unexpected Elements
Topsy turvy
An upturned caravan has everyone baffled in Western France, time for a scientific shakeup
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Unexpected Elements
Silent science
An album produced by musical legends contains just silence, is there any science to it?
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Unexpected Elements
The fast and the curious
The Unexpected Elements team takes a whistlestop tour of all things fast!
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Unexpected Elements
What’s that smell?
We sniff out stories about death, lies, cinema and COVID...
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Unexpected Elements
Don’t be a fool!
Your one stop shop for scientific pranking this April Fools’ Day!
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Unexpected Elements
Oh, Rats!
Can we make the case for remarkable rats, or are they just rubbish?
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Unexpected Elements
Navigating northward
The Northern lights have us wondering how to go north (and other unexpected directions).
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Unexpected Elements
An eggciting episode
The Christian celebration of Easter got us thinking about egg-related science.
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Unexpected Elements
Kenya believe it?
The Unexpected Elements team visits Nairobi, Kenya.
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In memoriam
The death of the Pope inspired Unexpected Elements to look at the science of loss
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