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 Do We Deal with Nuclear Waste?
Fri 2 Nov 2018
CrowdScience travels deep underground to visit one final resting place for nuclear waste.
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Could Bionic Eyes Help Me See Again?
Fri 26 Oct 2018
CrowdScience takes a look at life with artificial vision
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What are the limits of human endurance?
Fri 19 Oct 2018
CrowdScience joins a 246km running race in search of the secrets of human endurance
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What Makes Us Superstitious?
Fri 12 Oct 2018
How rational people can hold irrational beliefs and why ‘luck’ may be a state of mind
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Can We Prevent Hurricanes?
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Hurricanes – could science hold any solutions to these devastating events?
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What’s The Point of Laughter?
Fri 21 Sep 2018
All of us laugh, and it may seem obvious why we do, but what does the science say?
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Is Vaping Bad for your Health?
Fri 14 Sep 2018
E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular but just how safe are they?
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Why Do Drivers Zone Out?
Fri 7 Sep 2018
How can your brain handle driving at 70mph while your mind is busy wandering?
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Why Do Some Animals Change Sex?
Fri 31 Aug 2018
In the animal kingdom, switching sex is more common than you might think
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Is there life on Mars?
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Could Mars be a planet where life existed? Marnie Chesterton explains
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Could humans live in underwater cities?
Fri 17 Aug 2018
Could oceanic cities become a reality, and how might they be built?
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Can we trap light in a box?
Fri 10 Aug 2018
What is light and can we trap it in a box? Marnie Chesterton investigates.
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How Do You Stop a Hedgehog Invasion?
Fri 3 Aug 2018
Getting rid of an invader that people think is cute poses all sorts of prickly problems…
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Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours
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Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.
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Do Plants Talk about Sex?
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer
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Will We Run Out of Groundwater?
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?
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What Shapes Our Musical Taste?
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Why does one person’s heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?
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Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?
Fri 8 Jun 2018
Can science explain what’s going on when someone is hypnotised?
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
Fri 1 Jun 2018
The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?
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Is Fasting Healthy?
Fri 25 May 2018
Marnie Chesterton investigates the science behind low-calorie and time-restricted eating
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How is Your Brain Better Than a Computer?
Fri 18 May 2018
How computers can be faster, but brains are still better
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Why Do Humans Dance?
Fri 11 May 2018
What role does dance play in human life and evolution? We head to Cuba to find out
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Why Don’t We All Like The Same Food?
Fri 4 May 2018
How does biology and culture shape what’s delicious and disgusting?
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Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?
Fri 27 Apr 2018
What are our options for removing carbon dioxide from the air?
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Are Screens Bad For My Child’s Eyes?
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Are screens bad for my child’s eyes? Marnie Chesterton presents
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Why Do Insects Fly Towards Lights?
Fri 13 Apr 2018
What does the Higgs boson do for the Universe? Why do insects fly into lights?
