If you work twice as long, do you get twice as much done? The team look at the science behind a debate in India about whether people should work a 70 hour week. Show more

Nov 19 is UN World Toilet Day. Can breaking down the toilet taboo help tackle the world sanitation crisis? Alex Lathbridge, Andrada Fiscutean and Tristan Ahtone lift the lid. Show more

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

Which bit of science will win Best Picture? Who will take home the Best Supporting Actor? Show more

K-Pop fans send us on a journey into the science of fandom to explore Star Trek’s utopia and how our allegiances affect behaviour. Plus, presenter Marnie gets to meet a hero. Show more

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In a week of headlines about water shortages slowing ships in the Panama Canal and drought in India's Silicon Valley, we look at unexpected ways to manage the world’s water Show more

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

In a year when billions of people have been go to the ballot box, what do stickleback fish have to do with it? Show more

Beyonce's reappraisal of country music gets us rethinking who the original cowboys were, how the banjo gets its twang and we meet the man dancing chemistry in a tie dye lab coat Show more

From the students who built illicit microcomputer clones in 1980s Romania, to the scientists today using atoms for bits, Alex Lathbridge and panel take a look at microchips. Show more

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

The sight of horses running wild in a city leads the panel on to conversations about welfare, cloning and what driverless cars can learn from horseriding Show more

In a competitive world, is it always best to finish first? A tribute to second place, second thoughts, and second opinions. Show more

It’s time for an unexpected celebration and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and how presenter Marnie and panellists Christine and Candice can improve their singing. Show more

How would you feel if you spent more and more of your life underground? Could that be our future? Presenter Marnie Chesterton and the panel dig into subterranean science. Show more

The work of Stephen Hawking; Microplastic particles; Facebook algorithms; Next generation of batteries; AI Drama; Hawking's legacy Show more

Young smokers in Africa; data scraping; ocean rubbish; Northern white rhino; SA mobile health clinic; solar powered drones; does anything stand still? Show more

Novichok trail; Formula 1 innovations; Whalesong under the ice; Bees, forests and paternity tests; Genetic testing for inherited forms of cancer; Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss Show more

Nasa’s Tess; Brain surgery while wide awake; Internet Health Check; Tasmanian devil cancer; Raising eyebrows Show more