CrowdScience Podcast
We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
Episodes to download
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How are we evolving?
Fri 31 May 2019
How are we changing genetically to adapt to modern lifestyles and our environment
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Could our household microbes help or harm us?
Fri 24 May 2019
We revisit our episode on dust to decide what we should do with our invisible housemates
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Could dark matter harbour dark life?
Fri 17 May 2019
Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam鈥檚 question about dark life
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How does a single cell become me?
Fri 10 May 2019
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?
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Did cooking make us human?
Fri 3 May 2019
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?
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Could viruses help fight super-bugs?
Fri 26 Apr 2019
CrowdScience travels to Georgia in search of solutions to antibiotic resistance
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Will we ever know what the universe is made of?
Fri 19 Apr 2019
CrowdScience finds out if there鈥檚 a limit to what physicists at CERN can discover
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Why do we find things beautiful?
Fri 12 Apr 2019
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty 鈥� but why?
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What are dreams for?
Fri 5 Apr 2019
Do we actually need to dream? Is there an evolutionary reason for it?
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Which milk is best for me and the planet?
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Is switching from dairy milk to plant-based milks a healthier choice?
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Why do we like some animals and hate others?
Fri 22 Mar 2019
What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?
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When will an African visit Mars?
Fri 15 Mar 2019
We head to South Africa鈥檚 biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience
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What do clouds feel like?
Fri 1 Mar 2019
We turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what鈥檚 going on above us
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Where was the last place humans made home?
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Our species started in Africa, but what was the last habitable landmass we reached?
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Could a 鈥榸ombie鈥� virus kill us all?
Fri 8 Feb 2019
Might ancient ice from the Antarctic depths contain deadly viruses?
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Is Recycling All Our Waste at 蜜芽传媒 Possible?
Fri 1 Feb 2019
Could we recycle all of our unwanted household materials ourselves?
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Why Do We Bury Our Dead?
Fri 25 Jan 2019
The practice of burial stretches back deep into prehistory, but how did it evolve?
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Can Volcanoes Power the World?
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Eruptions cause chaos and destruction, but could they also be an energy source?
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How Bird-Like Were Dinosaurs?
Fri 4 Jan 2019
Birds are dinosaurs, but did their extinct relatives move, look, or sing like they do?
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What is the future of space travel?
Fri 28 Dec 2018
CrowdScience goes interstellar to examine the future of space travel
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How Much Energy Can I Burn by Thinking?
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Could we lose weight just by exercising our brain?
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Is There a Logic to Romantic Love?
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Can science explain why romantic rejection hurts?
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Why do Women Live Longer than Men?
Fri 7 Dec 2018
Marnie Chesterton examines how men and women age differently
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Is Soil The Secret to Slowing Climate Change?
Fri 30 Nov 2018
CrowdScience goes digging to find out how soil could help keep CO2 out of the air
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Do You Smell What I Smell?
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Anand Jagatia sets out to discover why we can鈥檛 all agree when we follow our noses
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Which Language is Most Efficient?
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Marnie Chesterton attempts to apply science and evidence to the art of speech
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Can We Make an Artificial Womb?
Fri 9 Nov 2018
Exploring what we would need to make a baby outside the body
