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Can singing improve our health?
Could this much-loved musical pastime improve our mental and physical strength?

How are we evolving?
How are we changing genetically to adapt to modern lifestyles and our environment

Could our household microbes help or harm us?
We revisit our episode on dust to decide what we should do with our invisible housemates

Could dark matter harbour dark life?
Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam’s question about dark life

How does a single cell become me?
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?

Did cooking make us human?
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?

Could viruses help fight super-bugs?
CrowdScience travels to Georgia in search of solutions to antibiotic resistance

Will we ever know what the universe is made of?
CrowdScience finds out if there’s a limit to what physicists at CERN can discover

Why do we find things beautiful?
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty – but why?

What are dreams for?
Do we actually need to dream? Is there an evolutionary reason for it?