5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Chris explores why you suffer temporary deafness after being at a loud concert

Dr Karl on efficient cars and cracking knuckles.

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.

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?

Dr Karl and Rhod Sharp talk science, including the mechanics of Vegemite and getting a car into a lorry on a motorway.

Dr Karl and Rhod Sharp talk science, including medical uses for chillies.

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.

Has Voyager 1 finally made it out of our solar system and other questions.

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.

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.

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.

Dr Rhod's joined by Dr Chris this time to discuss eye colour, the weight of light and synthesising vitamin D, amongst other things.

Hydrogen powered cars, stretchy batteries and is it true that if you wrap yourself up in cling film you lose weight?

Dr Chris Smith discusses how it's been discovered that bees carry an electric charge. Plus news about a new drug to fight flu.

This and other questions (like "can you get energy from nothing?") tackled by Dr Karl and Dr Andy

Dr Chris Smith and the team look at new SARS like Caronavirus, where cosmic rays come from and the causes of the menopause

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod ponder the migration of the Winter Solstice, the changing face of the Moon and a plane on a treadmill.

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.)

A new invention that could see street lamps transmitting data to our cars; a ew electronic migraine treatment and building Mars in your kitchen.

Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod in discovering that they need to do some homework

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr Karl joins Rhod Sharp to discuss global warming and answer the really burning question posed by small children everywhere; why is snot green?