5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.
Dr Chris and the Naked Scienctists talk about gravitational waves from the Big Bang, the UK announces a powerful new supercomputer and we find out why it's impractical to attempt air travel by just hovering above the ground and letting the Earth turn beneath you.
Quasars, lack of sleep killing brain cells and immature handwriting
Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists look at contagious yawning (you either do or you don't), the hidden fast food peril on your route to work and what goes "Crash Bang Squelch"?
Dr Karl talks to Dr Dotun about Great White sharks, black holes, and red hot showers.
Dr. Chris Smith presents science news, including a new gene therapy technique to protect the immune systems of patients with HIV, and the thirteen year old boy who achieved nuclear fusion.
Homemade nuclear projects, noise-cancelling headphones and why do apples go funny when you cut them open?
Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists discuss Google glasses, wind turbines and why sunburn is even more dangerous than we thought
Vision's the thing tonight. Dr Karl and Dr Rhod are talking eyes and sight in this edition.
This week: a chemical test for depression, how brain-training can boost the vision of baseball players. Plus, a way to make blood transfusion products in the test tube.
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss unintended consequences; vitamin C keeping you awake and what can happen if a tick's been eating bandicoot.
Dr Chris Smith aka The Naked Scientist investigates climate change and whether weather is getting more extreme, designing a smarter power grid to integrate sustainable power, and the eight great science technologies Britain is good at according to the Universities and Science minister David Willetts.
Static electricity and storms
In this podcast, new research shows that the sensation of powerlessness makes us judge things to be much heavier than they really are, 100 years of radio gets celebrated at Cambridge Wireless and the Gaia space mission is hoping to create the most accurate map of the Milky Way.
Dr Karl joins Rhod to discuss the "smart bolt" for a car, 10 new technical terms for 2014, the lack of women in science and why you can't use a mobile phone at a petrol station.
Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists look at peanut allergies, marine sponges and Beijing air.
A new way to produce stem cells and the electrical conductivity of underwater welders
Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to discuss Rolls Royce, polio and sharks.
Dr Chris joins Dr Rhod to talk radio waves, baldness and phonecall quality.
Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to talk weather in space, the potential benefits of shooting rhinos and managing the anger of others
Dr Chris stands in for Dr Karl once again to discuss the problems of heat, freezing carbon and why bright white lights at bedtime may be a problem.
Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to discuss how caffeine might help memory and how a glue inspired by slugs may help keyhole surgery.
Dr Chris stands in for Dr Karl to discuss bird flu, and entropy, among other science related questions.
This week, in the wake of near universal Christmas over-indulgence, researchers have announced the discovery of the nerve cells in the brain that make us like calorie-rich, sweet things. Plus, what does 2014 have in store for us scientifically?
Dr Chris Smith steps in for Dr Karl to discuss Newton's laws, plus why potatoes boil faster than they roast ...when an oven's hotter than the boiling temperature of water.
With a special, festively-themed Naked Scientists, Dr Chris and the crew explore some of the science of Christmas...
Dr Karl joins Dr John (who's in for Dr Rhod) and they discuss the efficacy of herbal supplements, the properties of quarks and whether striking the sides of jar lids helps in opening them.
Does Mozart make you brainier? The jury may be out. And what does Christmas lunch do to your intestinal microbes...
Dr Karl answers listeners' questions about the weird and wonderful world of science.
Sweat, the build-up of lactic acid while cycling and the tale of America's quest to find a pen that works in space.
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss Venus' magnetic poles, the necessity of sunlight, and Douglas Adams' poetry among other things.
