11 Apr 13
How do flies land on the ceiling and why is it that when you drink alcohol at the same time as artificial sweeteners, you get drunker quicker.
Apr 11, 2013•48 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
Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists
We find out what goes on inside your head when you're asleep and the science of losing weight, what makes a gastric bypass work?
Apr 08, 2013•25 min
04 April 2013
Dr Karl and Rhod Sharp talk science, including the mechanics of Vegemite and getting a car into a lorry on a motorway.
Apr 04, 2013•49 min
Medical uses for chillies
Dr Karl and Rhod Sharp talk science, including medical uses for chillies.
Mar 28, 2013•47 min
Chris Smith with the Naked Scientist
We hear about a genetic study into the elusive giant squid, what the European Space Agencies plank probe can tell us about the creation of the universe and the latest in 3D technology.
Mar 25, 2013•26 min
23 March 2013
Has Voyager 1 finally made it out of our solar system and other questions.
Mar 21, 2013•50 min
Naked Scientist: 11 Mar 13 Does cling film aid weight loss?
Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to tell us about how heading a football could trigger your immune system to attack your own nerves, and whether wrapping yourself in cling film helps you to lose weight.
Mar 18, 2013•28 min
Special guest astrophysicist Dr Maarten Schmidt
Dr Chris, standing in for Dr Karl, and Dr Rhod are joined by Dr Maarten Schmidt whose work on quasars helped change our understanding of the universe.
Mar 14, 2013•44 min
NAKED SCIENTIST
Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to tell us about how heading a football could trigger your immune system to attack your own nerves, and whether wrapping yourself in cling film helps you to lose weight.
Mar 11, 2013•27 min
Light, eyes and vitamin D
Dr Rhod's joined by Dr Chris this time to discuss eye colour, the weight of light and synthesising vitamin D, amongst other things.
Mar 07, 2013•46 min
NAKED SCIENTIST
Hydrogen powered cars, stretchy batteries and is it true that if you wrap yourself up in cling film you lose weight?
Mar 04, 2013•25 min
Naked Scientist: 25th Feb
Dr Chris Smith discusses how it's been discovered that bees carry an electric charge. Plus news about a new drug to fight flu.
Feb 25, 2013•26 min
How much does a full iPod weigh?
This and other questions (like "can you get energy from nothing?") tackled by Dr Karl and Dr Andy
Feb 21, 2013•49 min
NAKED SCIENTIST
Dr Chris Smith and the team look at new SARS like Caronavirus, where cosmic rays come from and the causes of the menopause
Feb 19, 2013•23 min
Solstices, moons and planes on travelators
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod ponder the migration of the Winter Solstice, the changing face of the Moon and a plane on a treadmill.
Feb 14, 2013•49 min
Naked Sci 21 Jan 13: Norovirus and the helical roots of tunnels
This week Dr Chris and colleagues investigate the potentcy of norovirus and new research into the genes for sociability and tunnelling (in ants and mice.)
Feb 13, 2013•24 min
Naked Science
A new invention that could see street lamps transmitting data to our cars; a ew electronic migraine treatment and building Mars in your kitchen.
Feb 11, 2013•25 min
Homework
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod in discovering that they need to do some homework
Feb 07, 2013•48 min
Greenland's Ice
Dr Jason Box, founder of the Dark Snow project, joins Dr Rhod and Dr Karl to discuss whether smoke particles from wildfires in America are quickening the rate that Greenland's ice is melting.
Jan 31, 2013•47 min
Naked Sci 28 Jan 13: Soaking up oil slicks and DNA data storage
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues with the week's science news including; DNA may actually be the best option for archiving data and a new material that can selectively soak up oil slicks.
Jan 28, 2013•26 min
24 Jan 13
Dr Karl discusses why boiling water turns to steam and ice so quickly in very cold temperatures. Rhod carries out an experiment to prove it.
Jan 24, 2013•47 min
Naked Scientist: 14 Jan 13: Restore Hearing
On this week's edition, a drug that can restore hearing to deaf ears, and the answer to the question why transplanted organs are rejected by the immune system if they aren't matched correctly.
Jan 14, 2013•23 min
Global warning and nasal products (yuk)
Dr Karl joins Rhod Sharp to discuss global warming and answer the really burning question posed by small children everywhere; why is snot green?
Jan 10, 2013•49 min
03/JAN/2013
Andy Crane is joined by Dr Karl for the first science phone in of 2013. He tackles issues from password protecting computers, to why chickens lay different coloured eggs and where are all the transitional fossils?
Jan 03, 2013•50 min
27 Dec12: Top 10 Science Events of 2012
This week we find out why cells in a honeycomb are hexagonal? What was before the big bang? As well as the top 10 science events of 2012
Dec 27, 2012•37 min
Naked Sci: 24 Dec 12 Does Christmas cure cancer?
For Christmas, Dr Chris Smith and the team join Dotun for a look at the lighter side of recent scientific news, including whether the festive season cures cancer and how speedbumps help diagnose appendicitis.
Dec 24, 2012•24 min
20/12/12:Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory
On the latest edition of Dr Karl, we find out if ice conducts electricity the same way as water. We also discover if the five second rule is true, after food is dropped on to the floor. We also take a look at people who can remember every event of every day of their lives. They have HSAM - Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
Dec 20, 2012•29 min
13 Dec 12
A british team exploring ice two miles down in Antarctica that hasn't seen the light of day for 500,000 years, are there fewer stars now than when we were younger and how could it take a week for a bruise to visibly develop on a listener's bottom.
Dec 13, 2012•48 min
Naked Sci 10 Dec 12: Regenerating heart cells and the upside of having children
Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists with a closer look at some of this week's science stories including; a trigger to regrow heart cells and the prophylactic effects of having children.
Dec 10, 2012•29 min
Norovirus, blood types and wandering planets
Dr Chris, the Naked Scientist stands in for Dr Rhod tonight and fields questions about norovirus, why humans have rhesus positive and negative blood and wandering giant planets.
Dec 06, 2012•51 min