5 Live Science Podcast Podcast
5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.
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Where do seeds come from?
Thu 10 May 2012
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to answer your science questions. This week; where do all the an...
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Food special as Prof Charles comes on board
Thu 3 May 2012
Dr Rhod and Dr Karl are joined by food specialist Professor Charles Spence to deal as;...
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Hairy women and homing pigeons
Mon 30 Apr 2012
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists explore.. : why women have evolved out of and...
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Helium balloons, marsupials and coffee cup physics
Thu 26 Apr 2012
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the scarcity of helium, the peculiarities of marsupials of...
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Underground water
Tue 24 Apr 2012
Why there's so much water underground, a new way to work paralysed body parts by brain...
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Diesel engines and Dr K's new planet
Thu 19 Apr 2012
Why aren't humans more hairy? How does a diesel engine work and what exactly is Dr new...
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Sinking of the Titanic
Mon 16 Apr 2012
On the weekend of the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we're a...
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05 Apr 12
Thu 5 Apr 2012
Why it would take 42 minutes to fall down a hole through the centre of the Earth..........
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Naked Scientist: Earth's Early Atmosphere
Mon 2 Apr 2012
This week we learn how some 2. 7 billion year old fossilised raindrops have revealed it...
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Aspirin, the cold and taste
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss aspirin for daily use, why some people don't seem to feel...
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Naked Scientist: Heart Attack Predictor
Mon 26 Mar 2012
This week on the Naked Scientist - a way to predict heart attacks that are about to a...
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Frozen eyeballs and Einstein's off the hook
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod try to answer your science questions. This week we ponder why in...
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Making rain and miraculous LEDs
Thu 15 Mar 2012
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to answer your science questions. Counting calories, making rain...
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Naked Scientist: Antimatter
Mon 12 Mar 2012
On the latest editon of the Naked Scientist - Antimatter, the rules of physics say be...
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Bird and dinosaur eggs
Mon 12 Mar 2012
Dr Karl answers listeners' questions about the weird and wonderful world of science,...
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Solar flares
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod join forces to examine solar flares as one heads towards the earth.
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Naked Science: Gentlemen, hippos and silence.
Mon 5 Mar 2012
Why the working classes are more gentlemanly than the upper classes, how hippos can of...
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Dr Karl
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Is the moon moving away from us and what could that mean...how much salt is too much...
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Naked Scientist: Frozen flowers, feeding foetuses
Mon 27 Feb 2012
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues talk us through the week's science news including the of...
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Spherical planets
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Why juicing greens might not be the best idea, exactly what sound is and why planets...
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Naked Scientist: Computers; from the biggest to one of the smallest and self med
Mon 20 Feb 2012
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues explore one of the biggest computers that's getting and...
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Migraines
Thu 16 Feb 2012
Dr Dotun joins Dr Karl this week. They discuss exactly what causes a migraine, how and...
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Naked Scientist
Mon 13 Feb 2012
Dr Chris discusses vaccines for cancer thanks to a gene from the gut bug Salmonella, a...
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google earth and fishing?
Thu 9 Feb 2012
Dr Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists joins Rhod to find out what google and have...
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DrChris: The Cold; Norovirus and Aeroplanes
Thu 2 Feb 2012
Dr Chris joins Rhod for the science phone-in this week. The cold weather is on our so;...
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Northern Lights
Thu 26 Jan 2012
Dr Chris sits in for Dr Karl and discusses the Northern Lights, global warming and...
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Nature's Best Painkillers
Thu 19 Jan 2012
Dr Karl answers listeners' questions about the weird and wonderful world of science,...
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Naked Scientist: Undersea vents, saying no to nicotine patches and bird flu
Mon 16 Jan 2012
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues with the latest science stories. This week; the deepest...
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DrChris: Looking at Moon, the longevity of birds and the truth about vitamins.
Thu 5 Jan 2012
Dr Chris of the Naked Scientists joins Rhod to answer our callers science questions.
