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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
How Do We Deal with Nuclear Waste?
How should we tackle the biggest clean-up job in history? Listener Michelle from Ireland sends CrowdScience to investigate what to do with years’ wor…
7 years, 10 months ago
Could Bionic Eyes Help Me See Again?
Mohammed is from India and he’s blind. He emailed CrowdScience because he wanted to know more about new technologies that could help him see again. S…
7 years, 10 months ago
What are the limits of human endurance?
When it comes to speed, humans have got nothing on cheetahs - or greyhounds, kangaroos or zebras for that matter. It’s over long distances we really …
7 years, 11 months ago
What Makes Us Superstitious?
Would you willingly break a mirror, walk under a ladder or cut up an image of someone you love - or might you be worried about tempting fate – even i…
7 years, 11 months ago