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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Are extroverts really happier?
Fri 6 Sep 2019
We probe the links between happiness, personality and culture
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Do we need more space stations?
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Would more satellites and space stations help us get further into the solar system?
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How can I motivate myself?
Fri 23 Aug 2019
We put science to the test to try and find out how can we best motivate ourselves.
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Global infertility: Could The Handmaid’s Tale become reality?
Fri 16 Aug 2019
What could cause mass infertility? Marnie Chesterton investigates
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Can I predict the future?
Fri 9 Aug 2019
There are ordinary people among us who are exceptionally good at predicting the future
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How many fossils are there?
Fri 2 Aug 2019
Have we already found the last T. rex? Or are there many more to be discovered?
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Why do we pull faces when we concentrate?
Fri 26 Jul 2019
We tackle the science of scowling, gesturing, and counting
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Where’s my time machine?
Fri 19 Jul 2019
When will sci fi’s favourite technologies become reality?
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Why do some people eat soil?
Fri 5 Jul 2019
What drives the body to crave something that isn’t real food?
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Can we prevent traffic jams?
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Should our cities cater less for cars and what are the alternatives?
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What’s the best way to breathe?
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Can certain breathing techniques improve your exercise performance?
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Are there new ways to beat depression?
Fri 14 Jun 2019
We investigate how science is uncovering new ways to help beat long-term depression
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Can singing improve our health?
Fri 7 Jun 2019
Could this much-loved musical pastime improve our mental and physical strength?
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How are we evolving?
Fri 31 May 2019
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?
Fri 24 May 2019
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?
Fri 17 May 2019
Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam’s question about dark life
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How does a single cell become me?
Fri 10 May 2019
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?
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Did cooking make us human?
Fri 3 May 2019
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?
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Could viruses help fight super-bugs?
Fri 26 Apr 2019
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?
Fri 19 Apr 2019
CrowdScience finds out if there’s a limit to what physicists at CERN can discover
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Why do we find things beautiful?
Fri 12 Apr 2019
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty – but why?
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What are dreams for?
Fri 5 Apr 2019
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?
Fri 29 Mar 2019
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?
Fri 22 Mar 2019
What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?
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When will an African visit Mars?
Fri 15 Mar 2019
We head to South Africa’s biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience
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What do clouds feel like?
Fri 1 Mar 2019
We turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what’s going on above us
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Where was the last place humans made home?
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Our species started in Africa, but what was the last habitable landmass we reached?
