5 Live Science Podcast

This week: a chemical test for depression, how brain-training can boost the vision of baseball players. Plus, a way to make blood transfusion products in the test tube.

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss unintended consequences; vitamin C keeping you awake and what can happen if a tick's been eating bandicoot.

Dr Chris Smith aka The Naked Scientist investigates climate change and whether weather is getting more extreme, designing a smarter power grid to integrate sustainable power, and the eight great science technologies Britain is good at according to the Universities and Science minister David Willetts.

Static electricity and storms

In this podcast, new research shows that the sensation of powerlessness makes us judge things to be much heavier than they really are, 100 years of radio gets celebrated at Cambridge Wireless and the Gaia space mission is hoping to create the most accurate map of the Milky Way.

Dr Karl joins Rhod to discuss the "smart bolt" for a car, 10 new technical terms for 2014, the lack of women in science and why you can't use a mobile phone at a petrol station.

Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists look at peanut allergies, marine sponges and Beijing air.

A new way to produce stem cells and the electrical conductivity of underwater welders

Dr Chris Smith joins Dotun to discuss Rolls Royce, polio and sharks.

Dr Chris joins Dr Rhod to talk radio waves, baldness and phonecall quality.