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The news you know, the science you don’t.

The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.

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Unexpected Elements: Space Mission’s Comet Crash

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Photo illustration of the Rosetta probe (L) and Philae lander are pictured above the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet

01/10/2016 GMT

Space Mission’s Comet Crash

BBC World Service - Unexpected Elements, Space Mission’s Comet Crash

The Rosetta probe sends its final pictures after a crash landing

Rosetta ends its mission; the Rest Test findings; H.G Wells; Lionfish robot zappers; Irish giants; Reversing Parkinson's; Human brains grown in a lab

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission comes to a crashing end.

Rest Test 
A year-long investigation into the worlds resting habits concludes, what do most people consider to be restful activities and do these vary from country to country?

H.G Wells
It’s 150 years since his birth. Best known as an influential science fiction author, we look back on his little know work in science fact.

Lionfish Zapper
A robot designed to control populations of invasive lionfish affecting Atlantic ecosystems and coral reefs.

Irish Giants
New genetic work has established a link between people of Northern Irish origins with the genetic disorder, pituitary gigantism and real giants of old.

Parkinson’s
Controversial tests from the 1980s using embryo cells to treat the neurodegenerative disorder have been re-examined, and now form the basis for new studies looking at ways to treat the disease in younger people.

Presented by Gareth Mitchell with comments from David Robson of BBC Future.

(Photo: Illustration of the Rosetta probe (L) and Philae lander are pictured above the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet © ESA/Getty Images)

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