CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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Where鈥檚 my time machine?
When will sci fi鈥檚 favourite technologies become reality?
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Who were the first farmers?
The story of how our ancestors tamed plants and animals
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Why do some people eat soil?
What drives the body to crave something that isn鈥檛 real food?
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Can we prevent traffic jams?
Should our cities cater less for cars and what are the alternatives?
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What鈥檚 the best way to breathe?
Can certain breathing techniques improve your exercise performance?
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Are there new ways to beat depression?
We investigate how science is uncovering new ways to help beat long-term depression
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Can singing improve our health?
Could this much-loved musical pastime improve our mental and physical strength?
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How are we evolving?
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?
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?
Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam鈥檚 question about dark life
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How does a single cell become me?
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?
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Did cooking make us human?
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?
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Could viruses help fight super-bugs?
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?
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?
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty 鈥� but why?
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What are dreams for?
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?
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?
What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?
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When will an African visit Mars?
We head to South Africa鈥檚 biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience
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Why am I shy?
Is shyness written in our genes, or more to do with our upbringing?
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What do clouds feel like?
We turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what鈥檚 going on above us
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Does brain size matter?
Why have a big brain if a small one would do?
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Where was the last place humans made home?
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?
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?
Could we recycle all of our unwanted household materials ourselves?
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Why Do We Bury Our Dead?
The practice of burial stretches back deep into prehistory, but how did it evolve?
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Why can鈥檛 I remember my accident?
CrowdScience goes hunting for lost memories
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Can Volcanoes Power the World?
Eruptions cause chaos and destruction, but could they also be an energy source?
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How Bird-Like Were Dinosaurs?
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?
CrowdScience goes interstellar to examine the future of space travel
