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Jul 19, 2014•50 min
5 Live Science Podcast
5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.
Episodes
Trumpets, Tyre Rubber, and Organisms
Dr Karl answers questions on trumpets, where all the tyre rubber goes, and whether the entire world is actually one single living organism.
Jul 17, 2014•44 min
5l Science: 12 Jul 14: Computer Shopping Revolution
This week Dr Chris & The Naked Scientists look at the computer shopping revolution and how your dinner time could affect your body clock.
Jul 12, 2014•50 min
Naked Scientists
Dr Chris fills in for Dr Karl this week and answers all your science related questions with Rhod Sharp.
Jul 10, 2014•47 min
Naked Scientist: Talking Chimpanzees & Tour De France
Dr Chris Mason takes a look at all the latest science and technology news. This week: interpreting the gestures that chimpanzees make to communicate with each other, a genetic breakthrough that could help cure diabetes and with the tour de France coming up we take a look at the science behind cycling
Jul 05, 2014•50 min
Naked Scientists
Dr Chris joins Rhod as Dr Karl is away this week (although he still manages to make an appearance). Topics include body temperature and why salmon go pink.
Jul 03, 2014•48 min
The Naked Scientists
This week Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists take a look at a new development which could speed up the production of electric cars, why mice get a kick out of sunning themsleves and what this means in the fight against skin cancer, a lizard like creature which could help regenerate human limbs, scientists blow up a mountain in their quest to explore the universe, and as David Cameron calls for a big push on dementia research the scientists take a look at Alzheimer's disease including h...
Jun 21, 2014•50 min
World Cup Science
Dr Karl and Dr Chris Mason host a special look at the science behind the World Cup and take your questions.
Jun 19, 2014•47 min
Naked Scientists: The Naked Scientists
This week Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists ask whether it would be good for men not to keep their mobiles in their pockets, news of a potential breakthrough in the fight against malaria and how to make drugs more effective and last longer.
Jun 14, 2014•50 min
Plus special guest Julian Crib
Dr Karl and special guest Julian Crib, author Poisoned Planet, takes your science questions
Jun 12, 2014•47 min
Naked Scientists: Super Shrink Me
This week Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists zoom in on the subject of nano-particles to examine how tiny objects, smaller than light itself, are making waves in the fields of health, optics, and electronics. Plus, news of why sleep is restorative, effects of foetal brain transplants, tree-hugging koalas, super-sized Earth-like planets and why Facebook affects your mood.
Jun 07, 2014•50 min
Dr Karl: Ozone layer, galaxies & absolute zero
Dr Rhod and Dr Karl discuss the point of the ozone layer and whether fish get the bends, and Dr Karl gets stumped by a six year old.
Jun 05, 2014•48 min
Naked Scientists: Water on the Moon
5 Live Science with Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists discuss water on the Moon; the end of the dentist drill; a new treatment for epilepsy; vaccine testing to save gorillas and chimps; and computer education during the Year of Code.
May 31, 2014•50 min
Magnetic waves and the Big Bang
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the connection between water canals and the universe.
May 29, 2014•47 min
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Green clean ups: how can nature's recyclers - bacteria and fungi - help us remedy man-made environmental problems, from oil spills to mining slag heaps? Plus, Brazilian dengue-threat could see football reach fever pitch, how beneficial bugs get into newborn babies, a new way to treat diabetes, and the Longitude Prize, reborn...
May 24, 2014•50 min
22 May 14
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss electric cars, the placebo effect, and the science of extinction.
May 22, 2014•48 min
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Why pregnant women are 42% more likely to have a car crash, how astronomers can now see planets around distant stars, and why octopuses don't tie themselves up in knots. Plus, we look at how our power grids are going to be transformed, from technology which hopes to reduce our energy prices to new ways to include wind and solar power in the grid.
May 17, 2014•50 min
Gravity waves, sun spots and mosquito saliva
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss gravity waves, sun spots and mosquito saliva
May 15, 2014•48 min
Gravity, pyramids and meteors
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod answer your science questions. Send an email to [email protected] with Dr Karl in the subject line if you've got a science question.
May 13, 2014•48 min
Radio, Robins & Better Batteries
Bigger, better and longer lasting - this week we go in search of the battery technology that will power the future as well as consider the shortcomings of our present technologies. We also try to tune-in to our own broadcast on a radio powered by moss! Plus, the camel virus hitting humans in the Middle East, why radio can send migrating birds off course, the AstraZeneca take-over and the latest gadget from Google: a smartphone with a laser.
May 12, 2014•50 min
Naked Scientists: Science news
Put on some safety goggles as Naked Scientists Chris Smith and Kat Arney ignite your bunsen burners with the hottest science news stories, analysis and breakthroughs on 5 live Science.
May 03, 2014•50 min
1st May
On the latest edition of Dr Karl, we find who discovered the expansion the universe? What is fracking? Plus, how does your television remote control works?
May 01, 2014•48 min
24 Apr 14
Dr Karl takes your calls on batteries and spiders
Apr 24, 2014•47 min
17 Apr 14
Dr Karl talks about soap alternatives, Why putting a living "Russian Brown Frog" into a bucket of fresh milk will keep it fresh, and cow's stomachs
Apr 17, 2014•48 min
April 14th 2014
Dr Chris Smith discusses cures for jetlag, moons orbiting planets outside our solar system, a trip to the most remote marine protected area on Earth and the Heartbleed bug.
Apr 14, 2014•21 min
10 Apr 14
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to talk about food intolerances, the endocrine system and the science behind fat cells.
Apr 10, 2014•48 min
April 7th 2014
Dr Chris Smith looks at how using eye contact on cereal packaging can influence sales, how water has been found inside one of Saturn's moons and why young smokers are more prone who have sons who grow up obese.
Apr 06, 2014•22 min
3rd April 14
In a short episode because of breaking news, Dr Karl discusses why 1959 Cadillacs had the biggest fins ever, reflecting eyes, and seaweed as fuel.
Apr 03, 2014•33 min
NAKED SCIENTIST
New insights into the structure of bones, the solar system gains a new dwarf planet, and the biological equivalent of scaling Mount Everest.
Mar 31, 2014•23 min
27 Mar 14
The science of Laryingitis, God versus Luciferase and whether a venomous creature can die from its own bite
Mar 27, 2014•44 min