Light the candles, cross your legs and follow the Unexpected Team as they cross the boarders of reality to ask why we believe in the illogical.
Light the candles, cross your legs and join the Unexpected Team as they journey beyond the borders of reality to ask why we believe in the illogical.
After a fraudulent psychic dupes 1.3 Americans, panellist Camilla Mota turns to history for insight into how scientists debunk such con artists. The Unexpected library harbours secrets of paranormal experimentation and dead air live on the BBC, and panellist Phillys Mwatee reveals why our beliefs win out over hard evidence written in ink. Nevertheless, in a world rife with conspiracy and vaccine hesitancy, Melissa Kapulu from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, shares the fascinating scientific obstacles faced in the quest to eradicate malaria from Africa once and for all.
Also hear how a Nigerian Pastor and super-star has been making Melissa's job much harder, and life on fake mars.
Note to self: No ghoul or spirit observed, moving on to next show... Presenter: Alex Lathbridge, Phillys Mwatee and Camilla Mota
Producer: Harrison Lewis, Alex Mansfield and Noa Dowling
CRISPR & bioethics
Turkey-Syria earthquake
Science on ice
Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
Climate science activism
Atmospheric rivers
One year on from the Tonga eruption
The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
Mosquito pesticide failing
Fusion milestone
Ancient warmth in Greenland
COVID spreads in China
A distant planet’s atmosphere
Online harassment of Covid scientists
Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
What peat can tell us about our future
Seismic events on Mars
The most powerful explosion ever recorded
Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
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