5 Live Science Podcast

This week, in the first of two special editions of the programme, Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists is joined by panel of New Zealand scientists to talk about their latest work, along with Simon Morton from Radio New Zealand's 'This Way Up' programme. They will hear how lasers are being used to sort sperm for the dairy industry, and why radio transmitters are being strapped to the backs of be...

5 live's science podcast, featuring Dr Karl, with the hottest science news stories and analysis. Topics include super moons, battery chargers and 3D printing.

This week from the Naked Scientists - from Call of Duty to Pokémon Heart of Gold, are video games bad for our kids? Why mathematician Alan Turing is still influencing new discoveries 60 years after his death, the fat bears that could lead to a treatment for diabetes, we hear about the possibility of energy from oil eating microbes, and we take a longer look at the diamond light source – Britain’s...

Naked Scientist Chris Smith with the hottest science news stories, analysis and breakthroughs - this episode is a special edition recorded at the Cambridge Science Centre and looks at topics including how animals survive in the cold and what's being done to save coral reefs.

5 live's science podcast, featuring Dr Karl, with the hottest science news stories and analysis. Topics include athletics, electric cars and cigarette smoke.

This week the naked science team look at jealous dogs, beef off the menu, mammoth comeback, and ancient bacteria and moss regrown.

Dr Karl discusses whether police could stop cars with electricity pulses and whether you can improve your memory as you get older in the science phone-in.

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Dr Karl answers questions on trumpets, where all the tyre rubber goes, and whether the entire world is actually one single living organism.

This week Dr Chris & The Naked Scientists look at the computer shopping revolution and how your dinner time could affect your body clock.

Dr Chris fills in for Dr Karl this week and answers all your science related questions with Rhod Sharp.

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

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.

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 cal...

Dr Karl and Dr Chris Mason host a special look at the science behind the World Cup and take your questions.

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.

Dr Karl and special guest Julian Crib, author Poisoned Planet, takes your science questions

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.

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.

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.

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the connection between water canals and the universe.

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...

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss electric cars, the placebo effect, and the science of extinction.

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.

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss gravity waves, sun spots and mosquito saliva