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Unexpected Elements Episodes

  1. Inbred Gorillas

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

  2. Large Hadron Collider

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

  3. Ebola One Year On

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

  4. Farming African Wet Savannah

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

  5. Anthropocene Start Date

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

  6. Solar Impulse 2鈥檚 global flight

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

  7. Curbing mobile phone waste

    The CLEVER project that aims to curb mobile phone waste

  8. Planned obsolescence

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

  9. Plastics in the Oceans

    How much plastic waste is entering the worlds' oceans?

  10. Cosmic Renaissance

    Scientists say the first stars lit up the Universe later than was previously thought

  11. Perovskite solar panels

    New developments in materials mean that cheaper photovoltaic cells may be on the horizon

  12. Rosetta Latest

    What have we learned so far from data sent back from the instruments on-board Rosetta?

  13. Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

    Solution to the mystery of the missing Mars robot Beagle2

  14. New Planets

    The most recent Earth-like exoplanet spotted by Kepler

  15. Trauma medicine

    In a special programme, Dr Kevin Fong explores the evolution of trauma medicine.

  16. The Ebola Story

    Claudia Hammond looks back at the Ebola epidemic to see why it spiralled out of control.

  17. Microplastics in our Oceans

    Scientists find microplastics in deep sea sediments are higher than sea-surface waters

  18. Results from Rosetta

    Rosetta鈥檚 ROSINA instrument measures what water in Comet 67P鈥檚 atmosphere looks like

  19. Orion Test Launch Successful

    Nasa鈥檚 new Orion crew capsule took to the sky and completed its maiden, unmanned voyage

  20. Experimental Vaccine to Protect Against Ebola

    The first results of a human trial of an experimental vaccine to protect against Ebola

  21. Philae lander detects organic molecules on Comet 67P

    Monica Grady from the Open University discusses the latest news from the comet mission.

  22. Rosetta Comet Mission

    History was made this week as Rosetta鈥檚 probe, Philae, landed on comet 67P.

  23. Hepatitis-C vaccine

    The results of a new Hepatitis-C vaccine show great promise

  24. Antibiotics in agriculture

    We have been warned that we have been abusing antibiotics

  25. Paralysed man walks again

    Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

  26. Bushmeat, Ebola Outbreak, Sniffer Flies

    The risks of huunting and eating bushmeat

  27. Nobel Prize, Ebola predictions, Genetics and Diabetes

    This year鈥檚 Nobel Prize winners have been announced.

  28. Ebola update

    The latest on the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

  29. India Mars, Exoplanets, Ebola Update

    India has successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars

  30. Rosetta Spacecraft Landing

    Scientists have chosen where they aim to land the Philae space probe on comet 67P

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