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Anyone for chips?
The rising cost of microchips has the team investigating chips of all descriptions.
The beautiful game
The Fifa Men’s World Cup has the Unexpected Elements team exploring all things football
Science bears fruit
A shortage of India’s prized ‘king of mangoes’ has us exploring some fruity science.
Celebrating science on Africa Day
From continental shifts to sky mountain, we explore the science across Africa
Unexpected enhancements
From cocaine salmon to peptides we look at performance enhancement
Hantavirus outbreak and what’s in a name
An outbreak of hantavirus has us looking at the unexpected science around the disease.
One hundred years of Sir David Attenborough
Sir David turns 100, but what’s the science behind achieving this significant birthday?
The soaring price of condoms
The strait of Hormuz blockade raises condom costs, and we explore the science of safe sex
Chernobyl: 40 years later
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, we look at radiation science.
The ribbiting science of frogs
A visa being revoked over frog embryos has us diving into all things amphibian
