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CrowdScience Episodes

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    Do green spaces make us healthier?

    Is there more to living alongside greenery?

  2. Is a vegan diet better for your health?

    Many people follow a plant based diet, but is a vegan diet really better for your health?

  3. Could I learn to think like Sherlock Holmes?

    What does science have to say about the famous fictional detective?

  4. Can my migraines be cured?

    What’s happening in my brain when I get a migraine? CrowdScience investigates

  5. Are extroverts really happier?

    We probe the links between happiness, personality and culture

  6. Do we need more space stations?

    Would more satellites and space stations help us get further into the solar system?

  7. How can I motivate myself?

    We put science to the test to try and find out how can we best motivate ourselves.

  8. Global infertility: Could The Handmaid’s Tale become reality?

    What could cause mass infertility? Marnie Chesterton investigates

  9. Can I predict the future?

    There are ordinary people among us who are exceptionally good at predicting the future

  10. How many fossils are there?

    Have we already found the last T. rex? Or are there many more to be discovered?

  11. Why do we pull faces when we concentrate?

    We tackle the science of scowling, gesturing, and counting

  12. Where’s my time machine?

    When will sci fi’s favourite technologies become reality?

  13. Who were the first farmers?

    The story of how our ancestors tamed plants and animals

  14. Why do some people eat soil?

    What drives the body to crave something that isn’t real food?

  15. Can we prevent traffic jams?

    Should our cities cater less for cars and what are the alternatives?

  16. What’s the best way to breathe?

    Can certain breathing techniques improve your exercise performance?

  17. Are there new ways to beat depression?

    We investigate how science is uncovering new ways to help beat long-term depression

  18. Can singing improve our health?

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

  19. How are we evolving?

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

  20. Could our household microbes help or harm us?

    We revisit our episode on dust to decide what we should do with our invisible housemates

  21. Could dark matter harbour dark life?

    Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam’s question about dark life

  22. How does a single cell become me?

    How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?

  23. Did cooking make us human?

    When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?

  24. Could viruses help fight super-bugs?

    CrowdScience travels to Georgia in search of solutions to antibiotic resistance

  25. 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

  26. Why do we find things beautiful?

    Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty – but why?

  27. What are dreams for?

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

  28. Which milk is best for me and the planet?

    Is switching from dairy milk to plant-based milks a healthier choice?

  29. Why do we like some animals and hate others?

    What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?

  30. When will an African visit Mars?

    We head to South Africa’s biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience

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