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Unexpected Oscars

As award season reaches its climax, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony.

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Fandom: The next generation

K-Pop fans send us on a journey into fandom through Star Trek, football and physics

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Ancient water, modern solutions

With water shortages and melting ice caps making the news we look at unexpected solutions

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G.O.A.T

The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest science to boot!

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Unexpected elections

What do stickleback fish have to do with millions of people鈥檚 voting intentions?

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Beyonc茅, banjos and dancing chemistry

Beyonce's reappraisal of who can do country music spurs an Unexpected Elements hoedown

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Computer memories and quantum futures

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

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A scientific s茅ance

Conjuring, not spirits, but critical thinking to expose fradulent psychics

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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 birthday party

It's party time and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and singing

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Winning Losers

Does the winner really always take it all?

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A world going on underground

In bunkers, basements and boreholes, we explore life going on underground

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Eternal flames

From Olympic torches to zombie fires, we stoke the flames which do not go out

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Balloon manoeuvres

Balloons in South Korea have us floating ideas about airships and helium.

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An unexpected burger

After McDonalds鈥� recent court case loss the team cook up a scientific culinary delight

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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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Ng膩 Wai Hono i te P艒: The new M膩ori Kuini

The crowing of the new M膩ori 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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