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What is healthy hair?
How can this nonliving structure be 'healthy' - and why is it concentrated on our heads?
Are artistic brains different?
Myck the artist from Malawi wants to know if there’s something different about his brain.
Are viruses the key to fighting infections?
Can bacteria-munching viruses help with the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance?
Why is this song stuck in my head?
CrowdScience burrows into the niggling world of earworms
Are humans naturally clean and tidy?
Answering your questions about life, Earth and the universe
Can smells fill you up?
CrowdScience explores how different smells affect your appetite.
What is white?
CrowdScience explores what makes an object appear white.
What happens to insects in the winter?
Marnie explores the many canny ways insects have adapted to survive extreme temperatures
Can animals count?
CrowdScience finds out whether there are some creatures that have a way with numbers.
Is there a language of laughter?
Do we all laugh at the same things or is there a language to learn first?
Why don’t some things burn?
Why do some things burn, while others refuse to catch fire?
Why are fish fish-shaped?
There are over 30, 000 species of fish – are they really all a similar shape?
Why am I gay?
CrowdScience looks at what science can - and can't - tell us about homosexuality.
How is mental health being ed in Africa?
CrowdScience visits Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss mental health with a live audience
Why can't I change my accent?
Why are accents so hard to change even when you speak a language perfectly?
When does weather change become climate change?
Heatwaves, floods and drought. Is it climate change, or is it just weather?
How long before all the ice melts?
CrowdScience heads to Greenland to understand the story of melting in a warming world.
Where do we go when the seas rise?
We see Greenland’s ice is melting - so where should we go to live in the future?
Why don’t we fall out of bed when we’re asleep?
Answering the sleep questions that have been keeping CrowdScience listeners awake.
How do we behave in crowds?
Crowds gather in all sorts of places. But is there a science to how they move and behave?
What gives clouds their shapes?
Marnie turns to the skies to figure out how clouds form and how they get their shapes.
Could my house run out of air?
Blocking up gaps might reduce energy bills, but can you make your home too airtight?
What is friction?
Everything that moves involves frictional losses, but what actually is it?
Why are my parents so annoying?
Blood is thicker than water but why are parents so annoying?
Bullying Parrots and Glacial Cocktails
Work-place bullying between two parrots plus arctic cocktails with 5000 year old glacier
How do you balance on a bicycle?
What’s going on when we ride a bicycle, how do we stay upright? CrowdScience investigates
Why do we get jealous?
Crowdscience grapples with the green-eyed monster in close relationships.
Where does the sand in a desert come from?
Lonely desert dunes have a romantic image, but how did they get there in the first place?
How bad is our noise problem?
How does noise pollution impact wildlife and humans, and why do we hate certain sounds?
Who’s afraid of public speaking?
Why does the thought of public speaking fill so many of us with terror?
