CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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Can Your Lifestyle Be Passed on to Future Generations?
Can your lifestyle be passed on to future generations?
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Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
How do microclimates affect our weather and our lives?
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What’s the Oldest Living Thing?
What is the oldest tree or other living organism on Earth?
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Why do Human Faces Look so Different?
Unlike most animals, human facial features evolved to have more variety. But why?
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Why is Childbirth Painful?
Why is it more painful for some women than others?
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Where’s my Ejector Seat?
Why can’t commercial planes have ejector seats, like fighter jets do?
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Why Do We Have Males and Females?
We plunge into the weird world of sex determination.
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Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
CrowdScience explores the biometric systems capturing our identities
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How Many People Can Earth Support?
When will we reach ‘peak human’ and how will we cope?
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Space Mining
Could we mine on asteroids?
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Should we eat Insects?
Should we eat more insects? CrowdScience meets the people turning caterpillars into food
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Why Do We Have So Many Accents?
What makes us sound so different from each other – even when speaking the same language?
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Does Weather Affect our Health?
Can a rain shower really cause aches and pains?
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Science at the Movies
Science meets film in a special edition recorded live at South by Southwest Festival, USA.
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Is Being Fat a Choice?
Can we blame our weight on factors like genes or our environment?
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Can Trees Help us Fight Air Pollution?
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?
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?
Being social has lots of benefits – so why do cats live alone?
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Is There Life After Death?
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?
Earth’s surface may be 70 percent water but many places are struggling to access it.
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What is the Real Time?
The history of time-keeping and the science behind the most accurate clocks today
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Why are Dogs so Different?
There are over 500 breeds of dog – but are they really as different as they seem?
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Is there micro-life on Mars?
The hunt for Martians on the Red Planet continues – but has life already been taken there?
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Can we be too clean?
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?
Is there a killer asteroid with Earth’s name on it?
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Wave Power
Could we generate all our electricity using energy from the sea?
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Does it Pay to be Nice?
Is being a team player and putting yourself second really the best strategy?
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The Fourth Dimension
How would a fourth dimensional being appear to humans?
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How Bad is Flying for the Planet?
What effect does air travel have on the climate?
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The Origin of Viruses
Did life on earth evolve from the first viruses?