CrowdScience Episodes Available now
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Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
CrowdScience explores the biometric systems capturing our identities
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How Many People Can Earth Support?
When will we reach ‘peak human’ and how will we cope?
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Space Mining
Could we mine on asteroids?
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Should we eat Insects?
Should we eat more insects? CrowdScience meets the people turning caterpillars into food
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Why Do We Have So Many Accents?
What makes us sound so different from each other – even when speaking the same language?
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Does Weather Affect our Health?
Can a rain shower really cause aches and pains?
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Science at the Movies
Science meets film in a special edition recorded live at South by Southwest Festival, USA.
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Is Being Fat a Choice?
Can we blame our weight on factors like genes or our environment?
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Can Trees Help us Fight Air Pollution?
Trees take in carbon dioxide but they also convert some of the toxic gases in our air.
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Could a Robot be your Doctor?
We see a robot at work in the operating theatre and meet the robots Molly and Pepper.