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BBC World Service

CrowdScience

Science EN ↓ 501 episodes

We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.

Author

BBC World Service

Category

Science

Podcast website

www.bbc.co.uk

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Electricity from Lightning 07.11.2016

Is it possible to get power from lightning? This was the first CrowdScience question posed by listener John Emochu in Kampala, Uganda. Presenter Marnie Chesterton goes hunting for the answer at a lightning lab in Cardiff, Wales. What is a lightning lab? And how was she able to make a tiny – but very loud – lightning bolt? Marnie also discovers humanity's early history with lightning, how aeroplane...

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