Between fun subjects, curious questions, and genuinely entertaining hosts who share the love of the learning with the people (kids and adults) who submit questions.
It’s free to listen to! 10 years of shows! Really recommend listening to at times. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
It’s free to listen to! 10 years of shows! Really recommend listening to at times. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC World Service - CrowdScience - Available now
Available episodes of CrowdScience
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November 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Between fun subjects, curious questions, and genuinely entertaining hosts who share the love of the learning with the people (kids and adults) who submit questions.
It’s free to listen to! 10 years of shows! Really recommend listening to at times. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
It’s free to listen to! 10 years of shows! Really recommend listening to at times. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Man, I love how education can really change people’s views on something. It may not outright remove fears, but it may reduce them and even instill appreciation for the subject!
Why do I bring this up? I listen to BBC CrowdScience on my way to work some days, and it’s always enlightening.
Why do I bring this up? I listen to BBC CrowdScience on my way to work some days, and it’s always enlightening.
November 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Man, I love how education can really change people’s views on something. It may not outright remove fears, but it may reduce them and even instill appreciation for the subject!
Why do I bring this up? I listen to BBC CrowdScience on my way to work some days, and it’s always enlightening.
Why do I bring this up? I listen to BBC CrowdScience on my way to work some days, and it’s always enlightening.
For you nerds out there (or cool people who don’t go out until later), some of my work on handedness and brain asymmetry here at Bangor University will be featured in a BBC World Service programme airing tonight just after 20:30 UK time.
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are right-handed people more creative?
Does being ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained’ affect how you think?
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October 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
For you nerds out there (or cool people who don’t go out until later), some of my work on handedness and brain asymmetry here at Bangor University will be featured in a BBC World Service programme airing tonight just after 20:30 UK time.
You might call this shameless self promotion. Then again I haven’t heard it and I do sound rather like Kermit the Frog, so who knows, maybe it isn’t.
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are right-handed people more creative?
Does being ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained’ affect how you think?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM
You might call this shameless self promotion. Then again I haven’t heard it and I do sound rather like Kermit the Frog, so who knows, maybe it isn’t.
Today's Crowd Science on the BBC World Service includes my colleague, Prof Fernando Montealegre-Zapata from the University of Lincoln, on how crickets hear.
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CrowdScience - How do insects hear? - BBC Sounds
Do insects have ears and if so, how do they work?
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October 26, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Today's Crowd Science on the BBC World Service includes my colleague, Prof Fernando Montealegre-Zapata from the University of Lincoln, on how crickets hear.
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Why am I 'warm blooded' as a human?
Explaining ectothermy, endothermy and heterothermy... 🌡
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Explaining ectothermy, endothermy and heterothermy... 🌡
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CrowdScience - Why am I warm blooded? - BBC Sounds
CrowdScience listener Matt wants to know is it better to be warm blooded or cold blooded?
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October 21, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Why am I 'warm blooded' as a human?
Explaining ectothermy, endothermy and heterothermy... 🌡
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Explaining ectothermy, endothermy and heterothermy... 🌡
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Why don't we lay eggs?
Some animals lay eggs, and their young hatch out of them. Other animals give birth to live young. But which strategy is best? (Spoiler alert: some do both)...
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Some animals lay eggs, and their young hatch out of them. Other animals give birth to live young. But which strategy is best? (Spoiler alert: some do both)...
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CrowdScience - Why don't we lay eggs? - BBC Sounds
Why give birth to live young when eggs seem so much simpler?
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October 19, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Why don't we lay eggs?
Some animals lay eggs, and their young hatch out of them. Other animals give birth to live young. But which strategy is best? (Spoiler alert: some do both)...
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Some animals lay eggs, and their young hatch out of them. Other animals give birth to live young. But which strategy is best? (Spoiler alert: some do both)...
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How come sea levels are rising faster in some places than others? 🌊
Understandong the science behind how sea levels can rise at different rates in different places...
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Understandong the science behind how sea levels can rise at different rates in different places...
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CrowdScience - How come sea levels are rising faster in some places than others? - BBC Sounds
Sea levels are rising due to climate change, but why are some places noticing it more?
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October 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
How come sea levels are rising faster in some places than others? 🌊
Understandong the science behind how sea levels can rise at different rates in different places...
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Understandong the science behind how sea levels can rise at different rates in different places...
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How did flowering plants evolve to attract insects? How did amazingly diverse plants end up needing insect pollinators?
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CrowdScience - How did plants evolve to attract insects? - BBC Sounds
The ingenious, gruesome and fascinating ways plants have adapted to survive.
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October 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
How did flowering plants evolve to attract insects? How did amazingly diverse plants end up needing insect pollinators?
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BBC Crowd Science. It’s a bit hit and miss, but often interesting
How are shells made?
Podcast Episode · CrowdScience · 2 October · 26min
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October 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
BBC Crowd Science. It’s a bit hit and miss, but often interesting
BBc World Service CrowdScience investigates how many email addresses belong to people who have died? What happens to websites and blogs to email accounts, social media profiles, gaming avatars and our conversations with AI when we die?
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CrowdScience - How many dead people are on the internet? - BBC Sounds
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
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September 26, 2026 at 1:20 PM
BBc World Service CrowdScience investigates how many email addresses belong to people who have died? What happens to websites and blogs to email accounts, social media profiles, gaming avatars and our conversations with AI when we die?
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ARE YOU DEAD?
CrowdScience - How many dead people are on the internet? - BBC Sounds
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
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September 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM
ARE YOU DEAD?
How many dead people are on the internet?
How much of the internet is being taken up by dead people?
Fascinating questions.
How much of the internet is being taken up by dead people?
Fascinating questions.
BBC Audio | CrowdScience | How many dead people are on the internet?
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
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September 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
How many dead people are on the internet?
How much of the internet is being taken up by dead people?
Fascinating questions.
How much of the internet is being taken up by dead people?
Fascinating questions.
What a fascinating listen this was ...
You won't be forgotten or will you?
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You won't be forgotten or will you?
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CrowdScience - How many dead people are on the internet? - BBC Sounds
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2026 at 6:09 AM
What a fascinating listen this was ...
You won't be forgotten or will you?
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You won't be forgotten or will you?
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Last Friday BBC Radio’s CrowdScience aired an episode featuring Data Never Dies!
For the episode, presenter Anand Jagatia explores what happens to our digital traces after we die. Are they deleted, preserved, or passed on and who gets to decide?
Listen to the episode here: bbc.com/audio/play/w...
For the episode, presenter Anand Jagatia explores what happens to our digital traces after we die. Are they deleted, preserved, or passed on and who gets to decide?
Listen to the episode here: bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | CrowdScience | How many dead people are on the internet?
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
bbc.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Last Friday BBC Radio’s CrowdScience aired an episode featuring Data Never Dies!
For the episode, presenter Anand Jagatia explores what happens to our digital traces after we die. Are they deleted, preserved, or passed on and who gets to decide?
Listen to the episode here: bbc.com/audio/play/w...
For the episode, presenter Anand Jagatia explores what happens to our digital traces after we die. Are they deleted, preserved, or passed on and who gets to decide?
Listen to the episode here: bbc.com/audio/play/w...
🧠 Did you know your brain burns extra energy when you focus?
Salvador Soto explains at the BBC why concentration is exhausting, mental vs physical fatigue, zoning out and multitasking limits.
Salvador Soto leads the @mrgbcn.bsky.social at @cbc-upf.bsky.social ( @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social).
Salvador Soto explains at the BBC why concentration is exhausting, mental vs physical fatigue, zoning out and multitasking limits.
Salvador Soto leads the @mrgbcn.bsky.social at @cbc-upf.bsky.social ( @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social).
BBC Audio | CrowdScience | Why can't I concentrate?
Questions about attention and multitasking, answered by psychologists and neuroscientists
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September 22, 2026 at 9:28 AM
🧠 Did you know your brain burns extra energy when you focus?
Salvador Soto explains at the BBC why concentration is exhausting, mental vs physical fatigue, zoning out and multitasking limits.
Salvador Soto leads the @mrgbcn.bsky.social at @cbc-upf.bsky.social ( @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social).
Salvador Soto explains at the BBC why concentration is exhausting, mental vs physical fatigue, zoning out and multitasking limits.
Salvador Soto leads the @mrgbcn.bsky.social at @cbc-upf.bsky.social ( @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social).
How many dead people are on the internet?. Episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... . Media: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselecto... .
CrowdScience listener Devin in Canada has just had a baby. Worried that all the good email addres... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, How many dead people are on the internet?
How much of the internet belongs to people who are no longer with us?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
How many dead people are on the internet?. Episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... . Media: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselecto... .
CrowdScience listener Devin in Canada has just had a baby. Worried that all the good email addres... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.
Warning Dad Joke.
The fish use currents :)
The fish use currents :)
CrowdScience - How do electric fish make electricity? - BBC Sounds
Some fish generate electric shocks that can stun a human. How do they do it?
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September 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Warning Dad Joke.
The fish use currents :)
The fish use currents :)
BBC CrowdScience did a whole podcast about that earlier this year. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
September 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
BBC CrowdScience did a whole podcast about that earlier this year. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...