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Is Fasting Healthy?

Marnie Chesterton investigates the science behind low-calorie and time-restricted eating

• 31 mins

How Green Are Electric Vehicles?

The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?

• 28 mins

Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?

Can science explain what鈥檚 going on when someone is hypnotised?

• 29 mins

What Shapes Our Musical Taste?

Why does one person鈥檚 heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?

• 26 mins

Will We Run Out of Groundwater?

Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?

• 29 mins

Do Plants Talk about Sex?

Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer

• 26 mins

Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?

Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.

• 26 mins

Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?

Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours

• 29 mins

How Do Magnets Work?

What鈥檚 going on in a magnetic field?

• 34 mins

Why Does History Repeat Itself?

Why do we often ignore our parents鈥� advice?

• 31 mins

How Do You Stop a Hedgehog Invasion?

Getting rid of an invader that people think is cute poses all sorts of prickly problems鈥�

• 26 mins

Can we trap light in a box?

What is light and can we trap it in a box? Marnie Chesterton investigates.

• 29 mins

Could humans live in underwater cities?

Could oceanic cities become a reality, and how might they be built?

• 32 mins

Is there life on Mars?

Could Mars be a planet where life existed? Marnie Chesterton explains

• 27 mins

Why Do Some Animals Change Sex?

In the animal kingdom, switching sex is more common than you might think

• 27 mins

Why Do Drivers Zone Out?

How can your brain handle driving at 70mph while your mind is busy wandering?

• 26 mins

Is Vaping Bad for your Health?

E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular but just how safe are they?

• 26 mins

What鈥檚 The Point of Laughter?

All of us laugh, and it may seem obvious why we do, but what does the science say?

• 26 mins

Does Asking Questions Improve Your Memory?

Crowd Science reaches its 100th episode

• 26 mins

Can We Prevent Hurricanes?

Hurricanes 鈥� could science hold any solutions to these devastating events?

• 26 mins

What Makes Us Superstitious?

How rational people can hold irrational beliefs and why 鈥榣uck鈥� may be a state of mind

• 38 mins

What are the limits of human endurance?

CrowdScience joins a 246km running race in search of the secrets of human endurance

• 26 mins

Could Bionic Eyes Help Me See Again?

CrowdScience takes a look at life with artificial vision

• 26 mins

How Do We Deal with Nuclear Waste?

CrowdScience travels deep underground to visit one final resting place for nuclear waste.

• 26 mins

Can We Make an Artificial Womb?

Exploring what we would need to make a baby outside the body

• 26 mins

Which Language is Most Efficient?

Marnie Chesterton attempts to apply science and evidence to the art of speech

• 26 mins

Do You Smell What I Smell?

Anand Jagatia sets out to discover why we can鈥檛 all agree when we follow our noses

• 26 mins

Is Soil The Secret to Slowing Climate Change?

CrowdScience goes digging to find out how soil could help keep CO2 out of the air

• 26 mins

Why do Women Live Longer than Men?

Marnie Chesterton examines how men and women age differently

• 26 mins

Is There a Logic to Romantic Love?

Can science explain why romantic rejection hurts?

• 26 mins