5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod are prefaced, in this edition, by two science stories; gas clouds at the centre of our galaxy and a bad smell in Los Angeles. After dealing with the lingering odour Dr Karl moves on to gravity waves and radiation.

Dr Chris and the team tell Dotun Adebayo a little about the science involved in the Paralympics and research to be done under the Antarctic ice sheet

On the latest edition: Dr Karl looks at the advances in stem cell research. Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes and others don't? The latest on nuclear fusion. And what's the quietest sound a person can hear?

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss string theory, why medicine can't yet replace cartilage and why kettles go quiet as they near boiling point.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists find out about pacemakers for the brain, new ways to help after heart attack and find out whether the water we take out of the ground from aquifers being replaced.

On the latest edition of the Naked Scientist: More on the Mars Curiosity expedition. Why we eat less food as we get older? And why does tin foil placed behind a radiator generate more heat in a room?

On the latest edition of the Naked Scientist: NASA's mission to the red planet. Do elephants purr? And how do supermassive black holes form?

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss how much you should chew food, why some substances conduct electricity while others don't, and what's going to happen as the world's supply of Helium runs down.

In this edition - It's the first week of the 2012 Olympics, and the Naked Scientists have been looking at what science is doing for Team GB, with the help of Sir Steve Redgrave.

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl discuss blood pressure (What affects it?), long bridges (How strong do they need to be?) and teenagers (How do you interest them in science?)

Dr Chris Smith tells Dotun about the rage of rats and new developments in our knowledge of DNA and RNA

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod are on hand to answer science questions posed by our texters, emailers and callers.

Dr Chris Smith and company talk trout snouts, galaxies with no stars and discuss a very surprising new use for silk.

Rhod Sharp and Dr Karl are joined by Steven Goldfarb from CERN to answer questions about the search for the Higgs Boson.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the week's science news. Do we have the Higgs Boson and why were Cambridge scientists sending a detonation inside a tube seven times around an auditorium?

The discovery of the Higgs Boson is the focus of the debate. Dr Karl tells us it could take anytime between 10 and 100 years for the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle to be put to practical use. But he admits he has no idea what practical use that could be. David from Birmingham asks if the discovery is just going to raise more questions than it answers. Dr Karl is emphatic. Yes. And says that...

Andy Crane sits in for Rhod Sharp, and he and Dr Karl discuss why rifle bullets fly more truly when they rotate, and whether salt water floats over fresh.

The Naked Scientist describes how to win friends and influence people, how to halt Huntington's disease, and finds out about a camera with five times the resolution of the human eye.

On the latest edition of Dr Karl -why we need the Multiverse, why the earth's core is so hot and new discoveries about breast milk.

On the Naked Scientists this week...why ministers say A levels aren’t up to scratch and what one exam board are doing about it, and a plant that punishes animals that eat its seeds but rewards those that spit them out!

Dr Karl and Dr Giles explore questions about hair length, the existence of monatomic gold and whether you should breathe through your mouth or your nose in a dusty environment.

A look at ways to predict where Malaria may strike, and a way to help dyslexics read more easily.

Dr Karl discusses the transit of Venus. We discuss the quirky characteristics of water, find out why the taste of food differs from person to person and why it might be more important to wash your feet than your face.

This week Dr Chris Smith has spent time finding out about the science being done in Norway including some intriguing news about the speed of sperm in different species...

This week find out how Botany Bay increased our understanding of the world and whether hoping is better than jumping?