Naked Scientists
Dr Chris Smith and company talk trout snouts, galaxies with no stars and discuss a very surprising new use for silk.
Jul 16, 2012•27 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
The God Particle
Rhod Sharp and Dr Karl are joined by Steven Goldfarb from CERN to answer questions about the search for the Higgs Boson.
Jul 12, 2012•49 min
Naked Scientist: Life after Higgs and explosive secrets
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the week's science news. Do we have the Higgs Boson and why were Cambridge scientists sending a detonation inside a tube seven times around an auditorium?
Jul 09, 2012•30 min
The Higgs Boson and all that
The discovery of the Higgs Boson is the focus of the debate. Dr Karl tells us it could take anytime between 10 and 100 years for the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle to be put to practical use. But he admits he has no idea what practical use that could be. David from Birmingham asks if the discovery is just going to raise more questions than it answers. Dr Karl is emphatic. Yes. And says that makes it an exciting time to be a scientist! You can also the learn the difference between an aster...
Jul 05, 2012•48 min
Rifling and salty water
Andy Crane sits in for Rhod Sharp, and he and Dr Karl discuss why rifle bullets fly more truly when they rotate, and whether salt water floats over fresh.
Jun 28, 2012•41 min
Naked Scientist
The Naked Scientist describes how to win friends and influence people, how to halt Huntington's disease, and finds out about a camera with five times the resolution of the human eye.
Jun 25, 2012•27 min
the Multiverse
On the latest edition of Dr Karl -why we need the Multiverse, why the earth's core is so hot and new discoveries about breast milk.
Jun 21, 2012•47 min
Plants that punish animals
On the Naked Scientists this week...why ministers say A levels aren’t up to scratch and what one exam board are doing about it, and a plant that punishes animals that eat its seeds but rewards those that spit them out!
Jun 18, 2012•25 min
Lengthy hairs, monatomic gold and breathing in particles
Dr Karl and Dr Giles explore questions about hair length, the existence of monatomic gold and whether you should breathe through your mouth or your nose in a dusty environment.
Jun 14, 2012•45 min
Naked Scientist
A look at ways to predict where Malaria may strike, and a way to help dyslexics read more easily.
Jun 11, 2012•23 min
Tastebuds, Water and Tracking Venus
Dr Karl discusses the transit of Venus. We discuss the quirky characteristics of water, find out why the taste of food differs from person to person and why it might be more important to wash your feet than your face.
Jun 07, 2012•49 min
Naked Scientist
This week Dr Chris Smith has spent time finding out about the science being done in Norway including some intriguing news about the speed of sperm in different species...
Jun 04, 2012•25 min
Botany Bay
This week find out how Botany Bay increased our understanding of the world and whether hoping is better than jumping?
May 31, 2012•49 min
Naked Scientist: Tasty tomatoes and giant diamonds
This week Dr Chris Smith and his Naked Scientist colleagues report on the chemical recipe for making tomatoes taste great, and the world’s biggest diamond that’s being built in Britain.
May 28, 2012•26 min
what mircowaves can do to wifi
On the latest edition of Dr Karl, how your microwave oven can interfere with your home Wi-Fi. How to control the Flow of Heat, with layers just atoms thick. And does caffeine dehydrate you?
May 24, 2012•48 min
Walking with coffee
How can you walk without splilling coffee, and can actor Anne Hathaway affect the world economy?
May 17, 2012•48 min
Naked Scientist: Windy Dinosaurs and the Missile Chimp
Science news with Dr Chris Smith and colleagues. This edition; burning up body fat, the reason why dinosaurs with wind may have "wreaked" havoc with the cretaceous climate and the chimp that plans missile attacks on zoo visitors.
May 14, 2012•25 min
Where do seeds come from?
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to answer your science questions. This week; where do all the seeds come from and an eyewitness to ball lightning joins us to describe his experience.
May 10, 2012•49 min
Food special as Prof Charles comes on board
Dr Rhod and Dr Karl are joined by food specialist Professor Charles Spence to deal with such tricky questions as; where does the skin on the porridge pan come from?
May 08, 2012•49 min
Hairy women and homing pigeons
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists explore..: why women have evolved out of having beards and hairy chests, and scientists have discovered how homing pigeons’ brains respond to the Earth’s magnetic field enabling them to navigate.
Apr 30, 2012•24 min
Helium balloons, marsupials and coffee cup physics
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the scarcity of helium, the peculiarities of marsupials and the physics of coffee cups.
Apr 26, 2012•49 min
Underground water
Why there's so much water underground, a new way to work paralysed body parts by reading brain activity, and a way to heal injured heart tissue by converting scar tissue back into healthy cardiac muscle. They're issues occupying the Naked Scientists this week.
Apr 23, 2012•26 min
Diesel engines and Dr K's new planet
Why aren't humans more hairy? How does a diesel engine work and what exactly is Dr Karl's new planet. That's all on the agenda this week for Dr Karl and Dr Rhod.
Apr 19, 2012•49 min
Sinking of the Titanic
On the weekend of the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we're taking a look at a NATO technology being delivered by Rolls-Royce to rescue people from an equally tragic situation - a sunken submarine.
Apr 16, 2012•27 min
Bird and dinosaur eggs
Dr Karl answers listeners' questions about the weird and wonderful world of science, including; the similarity between bird and dinosaur eggs. How can we know the universe is seventy billion light years wide. And do humans burn carbon like coal?
Apr 12, 2012•49 min
05 Apr 12
Why it would take 42 minutes to fall down a hole through the centre of the Earth.....can we be harmed by fish excrement ......and is it possible that a man's headache goes away whenever he gets close to his wife?
Apr 05, 2012•48 min
Naked Scientist: Earth's Early Atmosphere
This week we learn how some 2.7 billion year old fossilised raindrops have revealed what Earth's early atmosphere was like, and the reason why your body still wants that cheese sandwich despite the scales saying it shouldn't!
Apr 02, 2012•26 min
Aspirin, the cold and taste
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss aspirin for daily use, why some people don't seem to feel the cold and why do some people like some tastes and not others?
Mar 29, 2012•49 min
Naked Scientist: Heart Attack Predictor
This week on the Naked Scientist - a way to predict heart attacks that are about to happen, a way to block baldness, and we know there's an absolute zero for temperature, but is there an absolute maximum that you can't exceed?
Mar 26, 2012•26 min
Frozen eyeballs and Einstein's off the hook
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod try to answer your science questions. This week we ponder why animal eyeballs don't freeze in the Arctic and the relief of the Einsteinian Relativists.
Mar 22, 2012•50 min