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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Where鈥檚 my Ejector Seat?
Fri 12 May 2017
Why can鈥檛 commercial planes have ejector seats, like fighter jets do?
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Why Do We Have Males and Females?
Fri 5 May 2017
We plunge into the weird world of sex determination.
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Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
Fri 28 Apr 2017
CrowdScience explores the biometric systems capturing our identities
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How Many People Can Earth Support?
Fri 21 Apr 2017
When will we reach 鈥榩eak human鈥� and how will we cope?
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Should we eat Insects?
Fri 7 Apr 2017
Should we eat more insects? CrowdScience meets the people turning caterpillars into food
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Why Do We Have So Many Accents?
Fri 31 Mar 2017
What makes us sound so different from each other 鈥� even when speaking the same language?
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Science at the Movies
Sat 18 Mar 2017
Science meets film in a special edition recorded live at South by Southwest Festival, USA.
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Is Being Fat a Choice?
Sat 11 Mar 2017
Can we blame our weight on factors like genes or our environment?
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Can Trees Help us Fight Air Pollution?
Sat 4 Mar 2017
Trees take in carbon dioxide but they also convert some of the toxic gases in our air.
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Could a Robot be your Doctor?
Sat 25 Feb 2017
We see a robot at work in the operating theatre and meet the robots Molly and Pepper.
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Why are Cats Loners?
Sat 18 Feb 2017
Being social has lots of benefits 鈥� so why do cats live alone?
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Is There Life After Death?
Sat 11 Feb 2017
Examining the evidence that humans could somehow come back into existence after dying.
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Should we Use Ships to Transport Fresh Water?
Sat 4 Feb 2017
Earth鈥檚 surface may be 70 percent water but many places are struggling to access it.
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What is the Real Time?
Sat 28 Jan 2017
The history of time-keeping and the science behind the most accurate clocks today
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Why are Dogs so Different?
Sat 21 Jan 2017
There are over 500 breeds of dog 鈥� but are they really as different as they seem?
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Is there micro-life on Mars?
Sat 14 Jan 2017
The hunt for Martians on the Red Planet continues 鈥� but has life already been taken there?
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Can we be too clean?
Sat 7 Jan 2017
Cleanliness and health go hand in hand, but have we gone too far?
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Could Humanity be Wiped out Like the Dinosaurs?
Sat 31 Dec 2016
Is there a killer asteroid with Earth鈥檚 name on it?
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Does it Pay to be Nice?
Sat 17 Dec 2016
Is being a team player and putting yourself second really the best strategy?
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麻豆约拍 Power Storage
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Can batteries power our entire homes 鈥� or even help take us off-grid?
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Electricity from Lightning
Sat 5 Nov 2016
Can we tap electricity from lightning? John in Uganda wants to know.
