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Can sea-swimming improve my health?
Anyone who has ever enjoyed a beach holiday will know there’s something special about being by the seaside. But does sea swimming actually have tangi…
3 years ago
Why am I so lazy?
Lazy. Unmotivated. Procrastinating. If those are words you’re used to hearing from your inner critic, you are not alone. Take CrowdScience listener L…
3 years ago
What are Ostriches for?
Meet the ostrich, one of nature’s most unusual creatures: a two-metre-tall, flightless bird that struts about the African savannah. CrowdScience list…
3 years ago
What's living inside my gut?
Inside our gut lives an entire ecosystem of bacteria and microbes, called the microbiome. In fact, the human body contains trillions of microorganism…
3 years, 1 month ago
Do we have a sense of time?
CrowdScience listener Marie, in Sweden, has always had difficulty with her sense of time. She often thinks that events that happened years ago took p…
3 years, 1 month ago
Is there anyone out there?
What are the actual chances of finding alien life? The idea of meeting an extra-terrestrial has ignited imaginations for hundreds of years, and it ha…
3 years, 1 month ago
What does flying do to my body?
Compared to the entirety of human existence, our history of flying in aeroplanes is very short indeed. So what does this fast form of travel do to bo…
3 years, 1 month ago
How do my ears sense direction?
How do we hear a sound and immediately know where it’s coming from?
That’s the question that CrowdScience listener Chiletso asked himself one day as …
3 years, 1 month ago
Why do some people have panic attacks?
Sweating, nausea, chest pain and shortness of breath sound like the physical symptoms of a heart attack. For about 4% of the world’s population, they…
3 years, 2 months ago
Can robots be soft?
When imagining a robot, a hard-edged, boxy, humanoid figure may spring to mind. But that is about to change.
CrowdScience presenter Alex Lathbridge is…
3 years, 2 months ago