CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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How Much Energy Can I Burn by Thinking?
Could we lose weight just by exercising our brain?
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Is There a Logic to Romantic Love?
Can science explain why romantic rejection hurts?
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Why do Women Live Longer than Men?
Marnie Chesterton examines how men and women age differently
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Is Soil The Secret to Slowing Climate Change?
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?
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?
Marnie Chesterton attempts to apply science and evidence to the art of speech
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Can We Make an Artificial Womb?
Exploring what we would need to make a baby outside the body
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How Do We Deal with Nuclear Waste?
CrowdScience travels deep underground to visit one final resting place for nuclear waste.
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Could Bionic Eyes Help Me See Again?
CrowdScience takes a look at life with artificial vision
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What are the limits of human endurance?
CrowdScience joins a 246km running race in search of the secrets of human endurance
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What Makes Us Superstitious?
How rational people can hold irrational beliefs and why 鈥榣uck鈥� may be a state of mind
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Can We Prevent Hurricanes?
Hurricanes 鈥� could science hold any solutions to these devastating events?
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Does Asking Questions Improve Your Memory?
Crowd Science reaches its 100th episode
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What鈥檚 The Point of Laughter?
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?
E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular but just how safe are they?
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Why Do Drivers Zone Out?
How can your brain handle driving at 70mph while your mind is busy wandering?
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Why Do Some Animals Change Sex?
In the animal kingdom, switching sex is more common than you might think
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Is there life on Mars?
Could Mars be a planet where life existed? Marnie Chesterton explains
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Could humans live in underwater cities?
Could oceanic cities become a reality, and how might they be built?
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Can we trap light in a box?
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?
Getting rid of an invader that people think is cute poses all sorts of prickly problems鈥�
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Why Does History Repeat Itself?
Why do we often ignore our parents鈥� advice?
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How Do Magnets Work?
What鈥檚 going on in a magnetic field?
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Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?
Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours
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Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?
Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.
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Do Plants Talk about Sex?
Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer
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Will We Run Out of Groundwater?
Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?
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What Shapes Our Musical Taste?
Why does one person鈥檚 heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?
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Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?
Can science explain what鈥檚 going on when someone is hypnotised?
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?
