CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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How does a single cell become me?
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?
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Did cooking make us human?
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?
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Could viruses help fight super-bugs?
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?
CrowdScience finds out if there鈥檚 a limit to what physicists at CERN can discover
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Why do we find things beautiful?
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty 鈥� but why?
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What are dreams for?
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?
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?
What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?
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When will an African visit Mars?
We head to South Africa鈥檚 biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience
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Why am I shy?
Is shyness written in our genes, or more to do with our upbringing?
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What do clouds feel like?
We turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what鈥檚 going on above us
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Does brain size matter?
Why have a big brain if a small one would do?
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Where was the last place humans made home?
Our species started in Africa, but what was the last habitable landmass we reached?
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Could a 鈥榸ombie鈥� virus kill us all?
Might ancient ice from the Antarctic depths contain deadly viruses?
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Is Recycling All Our Waste at Home Possible?
Could we recycle all of our unwanted household materials ourselves?
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Why Do We Bury Our Dead?
The practice of burial stretches back deep into prehistory, but how did it evolve?
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Why can鈥檛 I remember my accident?
CrowdScience goes hunting for lost memories
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Can Volcanoes Power the World?
Eruptions cause chaos and destruction, but could they also be an energy source?
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How Bird-Like Were Dinosaurs?
Birds are dinosaurs, but did their extinct relatives move, look, or sing like they do?
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What is the future of space travel?
CrowdScience goes interstellar to examine the future of space travel
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How Much Energy Can I Burn by Thinking?
Could we lose weight just by exercising our brain?
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Is There a Logic to Romantic Love?
Can science explain why romantic rejection hurts?
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Why do Women Live Longer than Men?
Marnie Chesterton examines how men and women age differently
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Is Soil The Secret to Slowing Climate Change?
CrowdScience goes digging to find out how soil could help keep CO2 out of the air
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Do You Smell What I Smell?
Anand Jagatia sets out to discover why we can鈥檛 all agree when we follow our noses
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Which Language is Most Efficient?
Marnie Chesterton attempts to apply science and evidence to the art of speech
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Can We Make an Artificial Womb?
Exploring what we would need to make a baby outside the body
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How Do We Deal with Nuclear Waste?
CrowdScience travels deep underground to visit one final resting place for nuclear waste.
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Could Bionic Eyes Help Me See Again?
CrowdScience takes a look at life with artificial vision
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What are the limits of human endurance?
CrowdScience joins a 246km running race in search of the secrets of human endurance
