5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Karl joins Rhod to answer your science questions. This week includes a look into curtains that 'quench' noise and an explanation as to why researchers spend so much time proving the obvious.

In this week's fascinating look at all things science, Dr. Chris explains why some scientists subjected volunteers to sunburns, the prospect of a universal flu vaccine and how the identity of blood cells has been discovered in Canada.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to answer all your science questions

This week Dr Chris Smith stands in for Dr Karl to answer listeners'weird and wonderful questions about the world of science, which includes what gives atoms mass? Can asteroids skip through the atmosphere? And how hard water ruins a nice cuppa.

Birds of a feather flock together, but why? Hear how GPS and a pigeon have found the answer. Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists take a look at that and the rest of the week's science news.

Dr Karl who has been voted Australia's 10th most trusted man joins Rhod to answer your science questions, which this week include; can a blind eye ever be made to see again?

Dr Chris with all the latest science news.

This week Dr Karl takes you into the mysterious world of the multiverse and beyond! Plus how old before bald? The genius that is Dr Karl has all the answers to your science conundrums.

Dr Chris with this weeks science news.

Dr Karl joins 'Dr'Rhod to answer all your science related questions

This week's edition of the Naked Scientist looks at how rising carbon dioxide levels are deafening fish to the sounds of predators, and a new way to design better phone handsets by logging how people actually use the phone - sounds obvious but, believe it or not, this sort of data is really hard to come by; thankfully scientists at Cambridge University have come to the rescue.

Looking into a transparent world, the truth about fracking and the REAL difference between cats and dogs. Those are the subjects under the spotlight as Dr Karl joins Dr Giles.

On the Naked Scientists this week find out how to measure the shape of something very very very very small, and we go all magnetic with a new substance!! Dr Chris and his team reveal all to Dotun.

A look at a possible breakthrough in organ transplantation ...plus what is the optimum amount of petrol to have in your car?

Climate change is on the agenda this week. Dr Karl and Rhod are joined by speical guest Professor Naomi Oreskes. Also this week we get to the bottom of how likely it is to produce identical twins.

Dr Chris has been taking the Highland air and speaking at the University of Aberdeen's Word festival this week. But that hasn't stopped him from visiting the University's biomedical campus and chatting to researchers there.

Why do former smokers still want to smoke but hate the smell of cigarettes? Are black sheep more likely to be struck by lightning than white sheep and the best thing for car fuel economy. That's all in this week's edition with Dr Karl.

Dr Chris and colleagues with the latest science news, question of the week and the results of work done at the University of Chicago into the power of nicotine.

Dr Karl explains how passing electricity through your brain can make you more creative, examines prehistoric giant ants and discusses how radio waves are affected by weather.

Dr Chris with snapshots from his recent trip to America. He's been speaking to the amputee who controls his prosthetic arm by thinking about the fingers he lost and the scientist heading up the international fusion reactor programme amongst others.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to answer all your science related questions

Dr Karl and Rhod answer all your science related questions

How conversation carried early man out of Africa, what keeps a bike balanced and how to study schizophrenia in a petri dish.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to answer an array of science questions.

We head to Japan this week to find out how retinas are being grown in dishes which could hold the key to restoring some people's vision. Also find out why Dolly Parton never gets bags under her eyes. Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists have the answers.