CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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Sydney Science Festival, Australia
Your questions about life, Earth & the universe tackled by a panel of experts.
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Lightning Strikes Again
Can we collect electricity from lightning?
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Can Animals Commit Murder?
Are humans the only species that murder each other? We head to the rainforest to find out
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What Do Our Accents Say About Us?
Why do we sound so different from each other 鈥� even when we speak the same language?
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Could a Computer Judge My Crime?
How much of the justice system could be replaced by technology?
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Why is it so Hard to Quit Smoking?
We look at how nicotine tricks the brain into thinking tobacco鈥檚 good for us.
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Does Time really Exist?
Does Time really exist or is it all in our heads?
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Do We Think in Words?
Do we think in words, images, or abstract concepts?
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Can Plants Talk?
This week we hack the secret plant communication network 鈥淭he Wood Wide Web鈥�.
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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鈥檚 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鈥檚 my Ejector Seat?
Why can鈥檛 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 鈥榩eak human鈥� 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 鈥� 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 鈥� 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?
The history of time-keeping and the science behind the most accurate clocks today
