5 Live Science Podcast

In this edition Dr Karl and Dr Rhod consider boiling nitrogen in a bottle, looking for the traces of Apollo on the Moon and why a change in the weather can alter the spin on a cricket ball.

Dr Chris Smith and Dotun discuss the new surgical scalpel - dubbed the intelligent knife or iKnife, how to turn skin cells into stem cells and why medicines you're taking can stop the bugs in your gut working properly.

It's all about the inner workings of the mind with Dr Karl this week. His special guest Charles Spence discusses how the senses work and why tableware affects the taste of food.

Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to talk about solar powered cars that can go as fast as 80kph, what makes the Earth move (and wobble), and a piece about the spice turmeric and tumours

Dr Andy is joined by Dr Karl and Physics Nobel Laureate, Professor Brian Schmidt to discuss the expanding, speeding universe, dark matter and black holes

Today's episode - how cancers become resistant to chemotherapies, the threat posed by a new strain of flu in China, and a look inside the intestine at its bacterial inhabitants.

This week, how the Voyager space craft is still sending us Postcards from the Edge, after 36 years of space travel, is melting ice shifting the Spin Axis of the Earth, and why you can't exceed the speed of light.

This week, news that plants can do molecular long division; scientists have discovered that plants calculate precisely how quickly to burn off their energy stores overnight so that they run out literally as the Sun rises so they can start photosynthesising again. Also, how a tear-powered contact lens for diabetics can measure their blood sugar.

Dr Karl discusses the speed of space travel, and why sometimes the moon is red.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the latest news and a focus on how eyes keep blood vessels in their right places.

What jabs would you have to have to travel back to the 17th century, does your body get bigger at night and do you get total darkness in the UK summer?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look at what might have caused the "Tunguska Fireball" in 1908, the use of bacteria to repair crumbling concrete and the effect of tobacco advertising on teens.

Tom Green and our listeners ask Dr Karl why the earth's getting lighter if tens of thousands of meteor dust is landing every year, plus why do different materials feel as though they're at different temperatures while in the same room.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists discuss comfort eating, what happened when a comet collided with the Sun, and why boys' names and girls' names tend to sound different in a very particular way.

Dr Phil joins dr Karl to discuss how alcohol makes us drunk, why looking through a pinhole sharpens poor vision and weighing planets.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists discuss a new way to block flu infection, treating schizophrenia with an avatar, bringing 400 year-old plants back to life, and how much radiation a person on a mission to Mars would be exposed to.

Dr Karl joins Dominic to discuss why not to shop hungry, why we itch and whether acupuncture is no better than the placebo effect.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists explore how specimens of potato leaves kept in museums for over 150 years have enabled scientists to discover the identity of the bug that caused the Irish Potato Famine. We'll also hear why penguins can't fly and how researchers have discovered the nerve cells that make us itch!

Using X rays to read the unreadable; solar-powered butterflies – and why selfishness gave farming a boost 10,000 years ago.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to discuss solar flares, methods for dealing with tinnitus, and the extremes of pleasure that music can stimulate

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists explore an electrical vaccine for allergies, "boys toys" and "girls toys" and novel coronavirus.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to discuss a meteor seen blazing over the UK, 3D printing and why coffee makes you more likely to say "Yes"

Science news with Dr Chris Smith which includes a new weapon in the battle against antibiotic resistance and more on the banning of neonicotinoid pesticides.

Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to discuss flaming tornadoes, the dao of bubbles and the what of watts.

On the latest edition of Dr Karl: techniques to discover bi-polar disorder, the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes and new research on baldness.