Marnie Chesterton answers Indian listener Gautam’s question about dark life
How do trillions of individual cells work together to build bodies?
When did we switch from eating our food raw, to heating it?
CrowdScience travels to Georgia in search of solutions to antibiotic resistance
CrowdScience finds out if there’s a limit to what physicists at CERN can discover
Humans seem programmed to appreciate beauty – but why?
Do we actually need to dream? Is there an evolutionary reason for it?
Is switching from dairy milk to plant-based milks a healthier choice?
What makes us fawn over a puppy, but run away from rats?
We head to South Africa’s biggest science festival for a debate before a live audience
Is shyness written in our genes, or more to do with our upbringing?
We turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what’s going on above us
Why have a big brain if a small one would do?
Our species started in Africa, but what was the last habitable landmass we reached?
Might ancient ice from the Antarctic depths contain deadly viruses?
Could we recycle all of our unwanted household materials ourselves?
The practice of burial stretches back deep into prehistory, but how did it evolve?
CrowdScience goes hunting for lost memories
Eruptions cause chaos and destruction, but could they also be an energy source?
Birds are dinosaurs, but did their extinct relatives move, look, or sing like they do?