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 Could Humanity Become Extinct?
Fri 8 Sep 2017
Nuclear weapons and mega asteroids: what would the aftermath look like?
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Trees v Air Pollution - the Rematch
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Could trees be even better at tackling air pollution than previously thought?
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Sydney Science Festival, Australia
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Your questions about life, Earth & the universe tackled by a panel of experts.
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Can Animals Commit Murder?
Fri 4 Aug 2017
Are humans the only species that murder each other? We head to the rainforest to find out
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What Do Our Accents Say About Us?
Fri 28 Jul 2017
Why do we sound so different from each other 鈥� even when we speak the same language?
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Could a Computer Judge My Crime?
Fri 21 Jul 2017
How much of the justice system could be replaced by technology?
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Why is it so Hard to Quit Smoking?
Fri 14 Jul 2017
We look at how nicotine tricks the brain into thinking tobacco鈥檚 good for us.
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Can plants talk?
Fri 23 Jun 2017
This week we hack the secret plant communication network 鈥淭he Wood Wide Web鈥�.
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Can Your Lifestyle Be Passed on to Future Generations?
Fri 16 Jun 2017
Can your lifestyle be passed on to future generations?
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Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
Fri 9 Jun 2017
How do microclimates affect our weather and our lives?
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What鈥檚 the Oldest Living Thing?
Fri 2 Jun 2017
What is the oldest tree or other living organism on Earth?
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Why do Human Faces Look so Different?
Fri 26 May 2017
Unlike most animals, human facial features evolved to have more variety. But why?
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Where鈥檚 my Ejector Seat?
Fri 12 May 2017
Why can鈥檛 commercial planes have ejector seats, like fighter jets do?
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Why Do We Have Males and Females?
Fri 5 May 2017
We plunge into the weird world of sex determination.
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Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
Fri 28 Apr 2017
CrowdScience explores the biometric systems capturing our identities
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How Many People Can Earth Support?
Fri 21 Apr 2017
When will we reach 鈥榩eak human鈥� and how will we cope?
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Should we eat Insects?
Fri 7 Apr 2017
Should we eat more insects? CrowdScience meets the people turning caterpillars into food
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Why Do We Have So Many Accents?
Fri 31 Mar 2017
What makes us sound so different from each other 鈥� even when speaking the same language?
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Science at the Movies
Sat 18 Mar 2017
Science meets film in a special edition recorded live at South by Southwest Festival, USA.
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Is Being Fat a Choice?
Sat 11 Mar 2017
Can we blame our weight on factors like genes or our environment?
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Can Trees Help us Fight Air Pollution?
Sat 4 Mar 2017
Trees take in carbon dioxide but they also convert some of the toxic gases in our air.
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Could a Robot be your Doctor?
Sat 25 Feb 2017
We see a robot at work in the operating theatre and meet the robots Molly and Pepper.
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Why are Cats Loners?
Sat 18 Feb 2017
Being social has lots of benefits 鈥� so why do cats live alone?
