CrowdScience Episodes Episode guide
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Why do I crave unhealthy foods?
What are food cravings and why do we crave unhealthy foods instead of healthy ones?
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Why can鈥檛 I see images in my head?
Anand Jagatia discovers what mental images are for and why some people don鈥檛 have them
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Can Artificial Intelligence teach itself?
What happens if artificial intelligence starts learning from its own material?
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Is there a connection between memory and speech?
Caroline Steel finds out how dementia affects our ability to speak
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Why is the sun at the centre?
With astronomers and physicists, we unpack how we know the Earth revolves around the sun
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Can sea-swimming improve my health?
Can sea swimming improve my health?
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Why am I so lazy?
Is laziness biological, psychological 鈥� or even a real thing?
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What are Ostriches for?
Flightless wings, flawless eggs, priceless feathers鈥� meet the ostrich!
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What's living inside my gut?
Trillions of microbes live inside our gut. What impact do they have on our body?
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Do we have a sense of time?
Anand Jagatia finds out whether we have a sense of time, like our sense of taste or touch.
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Is there anyone out there?
How many planets in the universe could be harbouring alien life?
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What does flying do to my body?
We take to the skies to find out what effect working at 35,000 feet has on one's health.
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How do my ears sense direction?
How do we hear a sound and immediately know where it鈥檚 coming from?
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Why do some people have panic attacks?
Sweating, nausea, chest pain: panic attacks affect 1 in 14 people but what is going on?
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Can robots be soft?
CrowdScience uncovers how nature is weaving its way into robotic design
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10/03/2023 GMT
Answering your questions about life, Earth and the universe
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Do climbing plants know where they鈥檙e going?
Marnie Chesterton finds out how clever climbing plants are.
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Where does our fat go when we exercise?
Where does our fat go when we exercise?
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Are yoga claims bogus claims?
Which of the many claims about yoga are backed up by science?
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Who鈥檚 afraid of public speaking?
Why does the thought of public speaking fill so many of us with terror?
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How bad is our noise problem?
How does noise pollution impact wildlife and humans, and why do we hate certain sounds?
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Where does the sand in a desert come from?
Lonely desert dunes have a romantic image, but how did they get there in the first place?
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Why do we get jealous?
Crowdscience grapples with the green-eyed monster in close relationships.
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What happens to insects in the winter?
Marnie explores the many canny ways insects have adapted to survive extreme temperatures
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How do you balance on a bicycle?
What鈥檚 going on when we ride a bicycle, how do we stay upright? CrowdScience investigates
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Bullying Parrots and Glacial Cocktails
Work-place bullying between two parrots plus arctic cocktails with 5000 year old glacier
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Why are my parents so annoying?
Blood is thicker than water but why are parents so annoying?
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What is friction?
Everything that moves involves frictional losses, but what actually is it?
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Could my house run out of air?
Blocking up gaps might reduce energy bills, but can you make your home too airtight?
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What gives clouds their shapes?
Marnie turns to the skies to figure out how clouds form and how they get their shapes.
