Unexpected Elements

This week the Unexpected Elements team left our windowless BBC studio and paid a visit to ... more

This week is the Christian celebration of Easter, which sent the Unexpected Elements team ... more

The Aurora Borealis – also known as the Northern Lights – won’t be at their peak activity ... more

On World Rat Day, we’re getting ratty! We look at the biology behind the eternal struggle ... more

April 1st is notorious across the globe. Renowned for being a day of practical jokes. And ... more

Five years ago, people around the world were enduring COVID lockdowns as we attempted to p... more

It’s the month of Ramadan, when Muslims across the world fast between dawn and sunset in t... more

Sparked by a silent album released by 1,000 musicians in protest of the UK government’s pl... more

Unexpected Elements has a shake up looking into the topsy turvy world of science, all than... more

Monty the giant schnauzer won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. And ra... more

Valentine’s Day is here - the one day of the year where you can be unashamedly romantic an... more

French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona L... more

Celebrations for the Lunar New Year kicked off on 29th January, and this year is the Year ... more

The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela is currently underway in India. As part of the event, mil... more

After the comic malfunctions of a self-driving car, which drove its passenger/prisoner in ... more

Team Unexpected have been digging into their mind palaces to pull on the scientific resear... more

Happy New Year! This week, the Unexpected Elements team is reflecting on 2024 and looking ... more

December is a time of celebration, family feuds, and now scientific rivalries. It's also o... more

As news breaks that archaeologists have found the tomb of St Nick in Turkey, we check in o... more

This week, a banana sold at auction for $6.2 million dollars. Well, not quite… it’s actual... more

This week we’re looking at a political agreement that will hand back sovereignty of the Ch... more

It’s Black Friday! Everyone is camping in the street, staying up all night for the very be... more

Headlines that Canadian uranium deposits could make it a nuclear superpower has the Unexpe... more

It’s been 24 years since the release of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, which left audiences cap... more

Russia has fined Google more than two undecillion rubles, which is more than 20 decillion ... more

On this weekend ahead of the US election, we clock the importance of so-called swing state... more

White blobs have been appearing on the beaches in Newfoundland, Canada. They’re kind of do... more

Spoiler alert! At the end of the fourth season of Emily in Paris, the protagonist sets off... more

After 31 years, a mammoth treasure hunt consisting of solving eleven cryptic clues has fin... more

Did you know the iconic yellow smiley face was first designed in 1963? However, its creato... more