5 Live Science Podcast

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Dec 8, 2019 • 52min

Climate change, virtual reality gloves and the perfect hangover remedy?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team answer your questions and take a look at the hottest science news stories, analysis and breakthroughs. Including is a carbon neutral future even feasible? The team take a look at the new gloves that enable you to reach out and touch virtual reality. Can new organs be grown in a lab? Plus have scientists in India discovered the perfect hangover remedy.
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Dec 5, 2019 • 49min

Dr Karl: Baking Bread, Aqua Energy and Dried Cereal On Your Breakfast Bowl

Dr Alice Motion joins Bianca Nogrady and Rhod to answer your science questions. They discuss why dried Weetabix is so hard to get off the bowl and a caller offers some bread glazing advice.
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Dec 1, 2019 • 51min

Glow Worms And Space Tourism

Put on some safety goggles as Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team ignite your bunsen burners with the hottest science news stories, analysis and breakthroughs. They also answer your questions including how do glow worms glow? Why don't birds fall out of trees when they nod off? And will we see budget space tourism in the future?
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Nov 29, 2019 • 50min

Dr Karl: Carbon Capture, Micro-Plastics and Human Progression

Bianca Nogrady joins Rhod to answer your science questions.
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Nov 21, 2019 • 49min

Dr Karl: Virtual Reality, Sharks and Hydrogen Cars

Rhod is joined by Bianca Nogrady to answer your science questions, including bananas and antimatter, wetsuits and sharks and butterflies in your stomach.
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Nov 17, 2019 • 52min

Electricity, hiccups and the power of phenomics

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team find out about the new solar material to give panels a boost, how hiccups evolved to help babies to learn, 3D TV coming to a screen near you, and are we on the brink of a revolution in medicine. Get the podcast from the BBC Sounds app.
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Nov 14, 2019 • 48min

Dr Karl: The Moon, Particle Physics, and Quantum computers

Why are some bits of the visible moon darker than others? What's the large hadron collider for? And what might quantum computers do for science?
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Nov 10, 2019 • 51min

Recycling

Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with science news and a special look at recycling.
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Nov 7, 2019 • 48min

Dr Karl: Carbon, Trees and Fizzy Drinks

Dr Karl answers your science questions.
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Nov 3, 2019 • 51min

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