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Dr Karl and Dr Rhod answer your science questions. Send an email to upallnight@bbc.co.uk with Dr Karl in the subject line if you've got a science question.

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 ga...

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.

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?

Dr Karl takes your calls on batteries and spiders

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

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.

Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to talk about food intolerances, the endocrine system and the science behind fat cells.

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.

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.

New insights into the structure of bones, the solar system gains a new dwarf planet, and the biological equivalent of scaling Mount Everest.

The science of Laryingitis, God versus Luciferase and whether a venomous creature can die from its own bite

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.