CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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What Makes Us Superstitious?
How rational people can hold irrational beliefs and why 鈥榣uck鈥� may be a state of mind
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Can We Prevent Hurricanes?
Hurricanes 鈥� could science hold any solutions to these devastating events?
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Does Asking Questions Improve Your Memory?
Crowd Science reaches its 100th episode
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What鈥檚 The Point of Laughter?
All of us laugh, and it may seem obvious why we do, but what does the science say?
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Is Vaping Bad for your Health?
E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular but just how safe are they?
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Why Do Drivers Zone Out?
How can your brain handle driving at 70mph while your mind is busy wandering?
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Why Do Some Animals Change Sex?
In the animal kingdom, switching sex is more common than you might think
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Is there life on Mars?
Could Mars be a planet where life existed? Marnie Chesterton explains
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Could humans live in underwater cities?
Could oceanic cities become a reality, and how might they be built?
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Can we trap light in a box?
What is light and can we trap it in a box? Marnie Chesterton investigates.
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How Do You Stop a Hedgehog Invasion?
Getting rid of an invader that people think is cute poses all sorts of prickly problems鈥�
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Why Does History Repeat Itself?
Why do we often ignore our parents鈥� advice?
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How Do Magnets Work?
What鈥檚 going on in a magnetic field?
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Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?
Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours
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Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?
Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.
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Do Plants Talk about Sex?
Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer
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Will We Run Out of Groundwater?
Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?
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What Shapes Our Musical Taste?
Why does one person鈥檚 heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?
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Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?
Can science explain what鈥檚 going on when someone is hypnotised?
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?
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Is Fasting Healthy?
Marnie Chesterton investigates the science behind low-calorie and time-restricted eating
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How is Your Brain Better Than a Computer?
How computers can be faster, but brains are still better
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Why Do Humans Dance?
What role does dance play in human life and evolution? We head to Cuba to find out
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Why Don鈥檛 We All Like The Same Food?
How does biology and culture shape what鈥檚 delicious and disgusting?
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Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?
What are our options for removing carbon dioxide from the air?
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Are Screens Bad For My Child鈥檚 Eyes?
Are screens bad for my child鈥檚 eyes? Marnie Chesterton presents
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Why Do Insects Fly Towards Lights?
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?
We speak to scientists searching for a cure for dementia
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Is The Future of Food a Pill?
Can we produce artificial food sources providing all nutrients for healthy human life?
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Does Anything Stand Still?
Our hunt for perfect stillness takes us back to the early days of science and into space
