Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDo We Think in Words?
We're always up for a challenge on CrowdScience but this week’s question, which comes from an artist, tests our limits as we investigate the nature o…
8 years, 10 months ago
Can plants talk?
David in Bogota might have raised a few eyebrows in the CrowdScience office with his questions – can plants talk? And can they hear us talking to the…
8 years, 11 months ago
Can Your Lifestyle Be Passed on to Future Generations?
Back when Charles Darwin presented his theory of evolution by natural selection, French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested something different…
8 years, 11 months ago
Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
Listener Ros Allen wondered why it always seems to rain on her village but not the one a mile away. It’s all down to microclimates. CrowdScience expl…
8 years, 11 months ago
What’s the Oldest Living Thing?
Trees transcend human generations – but are they the oldest living things on Earth? CrowdScience listener William from London, UK, got in touch to as…
8 years, 11 months ago
Why do Human Faces Look so Different?
You don’t have to be a “super-recogniser” to know that human facial features are extremely varied. Just look around you. Yet look at a most other ani…
9 years ago
Why is Childbirth Painful?
Childbirth is different for everyone. Depending on who you ask, it’s one of life’s greatest and worst experiences - and can be anything from traumati…
9 years ago
Where’s my Ejector Seat?
Even if you spent your entire life on a plane, the chances are you’d never crash – commercial air travel is remarkably safe. But after hearing about …
9 years ago
Why Do We Have Males and Females?
Sex is responsible for the large variety of life on earth. Without the two sexes there is no sexual reproduction which means no shuffling of the gene…
9 years ago
Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
Biometrics are being used everywhere to recognise us. On this edition of CrowdScience we try out the tech that tells us apart. We find out just how u…
9 years, 1 month ago