Podcast Episodes

How Could Humanity Become Extinct?

Nuclear weapons and mega asteroids: what would the aftermath look like? CrowdScience explores past extinction events and future dystopias.

In a past …

8 years, 8 months ago

Spider Silk and Super Fly Senses

CrowdScience is uncovering the super-powers of spiders, flies and the most irritating mosquitos.

Anand Jagatia meets spider specialist Jamie Mitchell…

8 years, 8 months ago

Trees v Air Pollution - the Rematch

CrowdScience dives back into a debate about trees and their ability to tackle air pollution. Growing trees take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, bu…

8 years, 9 months ago

Sydney Science Festival, Australia

CrowdScience heads to the Sydney Science Festival in Australia where, from a special event at The Powerhouse Museum, we reveal answers to questions l…

8 years, 9 months ago

Lightning Strikes Again

Is it possible to get power from lightning? This was the first CrowdScience question posed by listener John Emochu in Kampala, Uganda, in November 20…

8 years, 9 months ago

Can Animals Commit Murder?

** Contains some upsetting scenes **

As a species, we humans can be uniquely horrible to our own kind. But are we the only animal to commit murder? Li…

8 years, 9 months ago

What Do Our Accents Say About Us?

How do we end up speaking the way we do? What's happening in our brains and mouths to make us sound so different from each other - even when we’re sp…

8 years, 10 months ago

Could a Computer Judge My Crime?

People said they’d never catch on. Mobile phones, the internet and even robot assembly lines all once seemed like niche technologies. But today they …

8 years, 10 months ago

Why is it so Hard to Quit Smoking?

A billion people across the world smoke cigarettes, and many would agree it’s the hardest habit to quit. One such smoker, listener Sharif, emailed Cr…

8 years, 10 months ago

Does Time really Exist?

Earlier this year Crowdscience explored the question of time. Back then we were on a mission to uncover what the real time is and how we're able to m…

8 years, 10 months ago