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Can Volcanoes Power the World?
Magma is the hot, molten rock found beneath the Earth’s crust. It’s so plentiful that it got Greek listener Dimitrios wondering whether we could harn…
7 years, 4 months ago
How Bird-Like Were Dinosaurs?
Birds are dinosaurs, but did their extinct relatives move, look, or even sing like their avian relatives? From revealing the hidden information withi…
7 years, 4 months ago
What is the future of space travel?
CrowdScience goes interstellar this week to answer listeners’ questions about the future of space travel.
Marnie Chesterton heads to Nasa’s Kennedy S…
7 years, 5 months ago
How Much Energy Can I Burn by Thinking?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could lose weight and stay fit just by exercising your brain? Trouble is everything takes so much effort - from burning …
7 years, 5 months ago
Is There a Logic to Romantic Love?
Loving someone who doesn’t love you in return makes us feel wretched – can science explain why we must suffer? Parental love makes perfect evolutiona…
7 years, 5 months ago
Why do Women Live Longer than Men?
From Russia to Rwanda, women live longer than men and have done so for over 100 years. But why? Is it encoded in our genes or is it something to do w…
7 years, 5 months ago
Is Soil The Secret to Slowing Climate Change?
Removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere - and stopping it getting up there in the first place - is becoming increasingly urgent if we want to pre…
7 years, 5 months ago
Do You Smell What I Smell?
We may take our ability to smell for granted but it’s a far more complex sense than many people realise. Listener Annabel wants Crowdscience to inves…
7 years, 6 months ago
Which Language is Most Efficient?
Communicating quickly, accurately and, ideally, in a way that's well-received is no easy feat, wherever you live in the world. For this week's listen…
7 years, 6 months ago
Can We Make an Artificial Womb?
From IVF to premature babies we explore what science we would need to make a baby outside the body in a pursuit to answer a question from Nigerian li…
7 years, 6 months ago