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How is Your Brain Better Than a Computer?
Why is it that computers are so much faster than brains at some tasks?
Or could human brains one day be used to better effect? Listener Praveen from …
8 years, 4 months ago
Why Do Humans Dance?
Kenyan listener Docktor can’t help himself. When music is playing he must move to the beat and he wants to know why. What role does dance play in hum…
8 years, 4 months ago
Why Don’t We All Like The Same Food?
Humans have the potential to eat pretty much anything – but the reality is we don’t. Wherever we live in the world, we eat just a small fraction of t…
8 years, 4 months ago
Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?
Carbon dioxide levels are far higher than at any other point in human history, thanks to our reliance on burning fossil fuels. But having pumped huge…
8 years, 4 months ago
Are Screens Bad For My Child’s Eyes?
Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions around the world. The way things are progressing, one-third of the world’s population – 2.5 billio…
8 years, 4 months ago
Why Do Insects Fly Towards Lights?
Will gravity on earth ever change? Why do insects fly towards the light? Is the plasma in a TV the same as plasma in a fusion reactor? Why are mosqui…
8 years, 5 months ago
Can We Find a Cure for Dementia?
Dementia affects nearly 50 million people worldwide – but doctors are still struggling to find a cure. CrowdScience investigates why this particular …
8 years, 5 months ago
Is The Future of Food a Pill?
Since the end of the 19th century, scientists have been predicting we would be eating a meal in a pill, but is it a serious answer to the world’s foo…
8 years, 5 months ago
Does Anything Stand Still?
Listener Nikolai sends CrowdScience hunting through space and time with his deceptively simple question. Can we find perfect stillness? You are proba…
8 years, 5 months ago
Why Do We Follow the Crowd?
Are you the master of your own decisions? Independent-minded? A free spirit? Like it or not, the answer is probably no - as we are profoundly influen…
8 years, 6 months ago