CrowdScience Podcast
We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
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Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours
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Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.
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Do Plants Talk about Sex?
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer
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Will We Run Out of Groundwater?
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?
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What Shapes Our Musical Taste?
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Why does one person’s heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?
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Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?
Fri 8 Jun 2018
Can science explain what’s going on when someone is hypnotised?
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
Fri 1 Jun 2018
The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?
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Is Fasting Healthy?
Fri 25 May 2018
Marnie Chesterton investigates the science behind low-calorie and time-restricted eating
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How is Your Brain Better Than a Computer?
Fri 18 May 2018
How computers can be faster, but brains are still better
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Why Do Humans Dance?
Fri 11 May 2018
What role does dance play in human life and evolution? We head to Cuba to find out
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Why Don’t We All Like The Same Food?
Fri 4 May 2018
How does biology and culture shape what’s delicious and disgusting?
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Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?
Fri 27 Apr 2018
What are our options for removing carbon dioxide from the air?
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Are Screens Bad For My Child’s Eyes?
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Are screens bad for my child’s eyes? Marnie Chesterton presents
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Why Do Insects Fly Towards Lights?
Fri 13 Apr 2018
What does the Higgs boson do for the Universe? Why do insects fly into lights?
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Can We Find a Cure for Dementia?
Fri 6 Apr 2018
We speak to scientists searching for a cure for dementia
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Is The Future of Food a Pill?
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Can we produce artificial food sources providing all nutrients for healthy human life?
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Does Anything Stand Still?
Fri 23 Mar 2018
Our hunt for perfect stillness takes us back to the early days of science and into space
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Why Do We Follow the Crowd?
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Discover the secrets of your inner sheep and whether the crowd is as wise as they say
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Is Nuclear Fusion Coming Anytime Soon?
Fri 9 Mar 2018
After all the money spent, are we really anywhere close to limitless clean energy?
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Could Bees Take Over From Sniffer Dogs?
Fri 2 Mar 2018
How can we humans use other animals’ senses for our benefit?
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Do Animals Have Accents?
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Can animals of the same species from different places communicate with each other?
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How does the Moon affect life on Earth?
Fri 16 Feb 2018
We investigate the moon's effects on life on Earth from early births to interrupted sleep
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Why Does Dark Matter, Matter?
Fri 9 Feb 2018
Scientists have been hunting for it for decades, but will finding it change our lives?
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Must Life be Carbon-Based?
Fri 2 Feb 2018
Must Carbon be the building block of life in the universe?
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Are Crunchy Caterpillars the Food of the Future?
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Meet the entrepreneurs turning bugs into food and get top tips on how to cook them
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When Does Speech Become Music?
Fri 12 Jan 2018
How do our brains tell the difference between music and speech?
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Why Does My Dog Love Me?
Fri 5 Jan 2018
Dogs are our best friends. But why do they fit so seamlessly into human life?
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Could our faces replace passports as ID?
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Facial recognition could transform personal security but how easily can it be fooled?
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Rudolph castrated: what you didn’t hear this year
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Reindeer castration, plants get chatty and more quirky science revealed.
