5 Live Science Podcast

BBC Radio 5 Live
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Jun 14, 2014 • 50min

Naked Scientists: The Naked Scientists

This week Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists ask whether it would be good for men not to keep their mobiles in their pockets, news of a potential breakthrough in the fight against malaria and how to make drugs more effective and last longer.
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Jun 12, 2014 • 47min

Plus special guest Julian Crib

Dr Karl and special guest Julian Crib, author Poisoned Planet, takes your science questions
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Jun 7, 2014 • 50min

Naked Scientists: Super Shrink Me

This week Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists zoom in on the subject of nano-particles to examine how tiny objects, smaller than light itself, are making waves in the fields of health, optics, and electronics. Plus, news of why sleep is restorative, effects of foetal brain transplants, tree-hugging koalas, super-sized Earth-like planets and why Facebook affects your mood.
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Jun 5, 2014 • 48min

Dr Karl: Ozone layer, galaxies & absolute zero

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl discuss the point of the ozone layer and whether fish get the bends, and Dr Karl gets stumped by a six year old.
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May 31, 2014 • 50min

Naked Scientists: Water on the Moon

5 Live Science with Chris Smith and his team of Naked Scientists discuss water on the Moon; the end of the dentist drill; a new treatment for epilepsy; vaccine testing to save gorillas and chimps; and computer education during the Year of Code.
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May 29, 2014 • 47min

Magnetic waves and the Big Bang

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the connection between water canals and the universe.
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May 24, 2014 • 50min

5 live Science

Green clean ups: how can nature's recyclers - bacteria and fungi - help us remedy man-made environmental problems, from oil spills to mining slag heaps? Plus, Brazilian dengue-threat could see football reach fever pitch, how beneficial bugs get into newborn babies, a new way to treat diabetes, and the Longitude Prize, reborn...
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May 22, 2014 • 48min

22 May 14

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss electric cars, the placebo effect, and the science of extinction.
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May 17, 2014 • 50min

5 live Science

Why pregnant women are 42% more likely to have a car crash, how astronomers can now see planets around distant stars, and why octopuses don't tie themselves up in knots. Plus, we look at how our power grids are going to be transformed, from technology which hopes to reduce our energy prices to new ways to include wind and solar power in the grid.
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May 15, 2014 • 48min

Gravity waves, sun spots and mosquito saliva

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss gravity waves, sun spots and mosquito saliva

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