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CrowdScience Episodes

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    Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?

    CrowdScience explores the biometric systems capturing our identities

  2. How Many People Can Earth Support?

    When will we reach ‘peak human’ and how will we cope?

  3. Space Mining

    Could we mine on asteroids?

  4. Should we eat Insects?

    Should we eat more insects? CrowdScience meets the people turning caterpillars into food

  5. Why Do We Have So Many Accents?

    What makes us sound so different from each other – even when speaking the same language?

  6. Does Weather Affect our Health?

    Can a rain shower really cause aches and pains?

  7. Science at the Movies

    Science meets film in a special edition recorded live at South by Southwest Festival, USA.

  8. Is Being Fat a Choice?

    Can we blame our weight on factors like genes or our environment?

  9. Can Trees Help us Fight Air Pollution?

    Trees take in carbon dioxide but they also convert some of the toxic gases in our air.

  10. Could a Robot be your Doctor?

    We see a robot at work in the operating theatre and meet the robots Molly and Pepper.

  11. Why are Cats Loners?

    Being social has lots of benefits – so why do cats live alone?

  12. Is There Life After Death?

    Examining the evidence that humans could somehow come back into existence after dying.

  13. Should we Use Ships to Transport Fresh Water?

    Earth’s surface may be 70 percent water but many places are struggling to access it.

  14. What is the Real Time?

    The history of time-keeping and the science behind the most accurate clocks today

  15. Why are Dogs so Different?

    There are over 500 breeds of dog – but are they really as different as they seem?

  16. Is there micro-life on Mars?

    The hunt for Martians on the Red Planet continues – but has life already been taken there?

  17. Can we be too clean?

    Cleanliness and health go hand in hand, but have we gone too far?

  18. Could Humanity be Wiped out Like the Dinosaurs?

    Is there a killer asteroid with Earth’s name on it?

  19. Wave Power

    Could we generate all our electricity using energy from the sea?

  20. Does it Pay to be Nice?

    Is being a team player and putting yourself second really the best strategy?

  21. The Fourth Dimension

    How would a fourth dimensional being appear to humans?

  22. How Bad is Flying for the Planet?

    What effect does air travel have on the climate?

  23. The Origin of Viruses

    Did life on earth evolve from the first viruses?

  24. Home Power Storage

    Can batteries power our entire homes – or even help take us off-grid?

  25. The Edge of Space

    What do scientists think is outside our universe?

  26. Electricity from Lightning

    Can we tap electricity from lightning? John in Uganda wants to know.

  27. Why don't some things burn?

    CrowdScience looks at what makes some materials burn why others only smoulder.

  28. What makes stuff sticky?

    Answering your questions about life, Earth and the universe

  29. Welcome to CrowdScience

    Welcome to this new BBC podcast. The first episode will be published within seven days.

  30. Trailer: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

    The epic space story of a sci-fi dream that changed spaceflight forever

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