CrowdScience
We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d42rc
- Description
- We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-10 21:44
- last episode published
- 2025-01-10 21:00
- publication frequency
- 7.02 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 427
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-10 | In the past stout beer has been touted for its supposed health benefits. Is there any truth to those claims - and what happens if you take the alcohol out?CrowdScience listener Aengus pondered these questions down at the pub, after noticing most of his... |
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| 2025-01-03 | When listener Diana fell on a run on her birthday, her first instinct was not to check her bruised hand, but instead to get up as quickly as possible and act as if nothing had happened. She felt embarrassed. Meanwhile, her son Marley loves to watch fai... |
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| 2024-12-27 | Did you know that flies fly in rectangles, fish hide by lighting themselves up and the moon is lifting the ground underneath your feet? Anand Jagatia quizzes members of the CrowdScience team on the moments from the past year that had them scratching th... |
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| 2024-12-20 | The Moon has always sparked human curiosity. It governs the tides and biological rhythms. It’s inspired myths and stories. It’s inspired us to reach out and explore it. And it's certainly inspired CrowdScience listeners, who have sent us a host of ques... |
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| 2024-12-13 | It seems bizarre to seek out experiences that are uncomfortable or downright painful. Yet examples abound: it’s common to eat painfully hot chillies, drink bitter coffee, or ‘feel the burn' when exercising - and enjoy it. CrowdScience listener Sandy ... |
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| 2024-12-07 | For their fans, jigsaw puzzles are a satisfying challenge, a focus, a chance to put everything else aside for a moment and be creative. But for other people they’re a frustrating jumble of random shapes and colours, a pointless task which is best left ... |
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| 2024-11-29 | Do you find your bearings quickly or are you easily disorientated? Do your friends trust you with the directions in a new city? Finding our way in the physical world, whether that is around a building or a city, is an important everyday capability, one... |
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| 2024-11-22 | As we enter our teenage years, many of us feel like life is just getting started. But for dogs, celebrating a ‘teen’ birthday is a sign of old age, entering a phase when things start slowing down. Listener Susan was besotted with her beloved corgi Copp... |
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| 2024-11-15 | Maybe you have a deep, booming voice. Or perhaps it’s light and mellifluous. Some people’s voices are honey-smooth while others are as rough as gravel. But why does your voice sound the way it does? CrowdScience listener Hannah in Berlin is training ... |
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| 2024-11-08 | CrowdScience listeners David and Tatiana have long been captivated by an unusual dinner table discussion: the peculiar change they’ve noticed over the past 16 years in the sunlight streaming through their bedroom window in Ostend, Belgium. They’re conv... |
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