5 Live Science Podcast

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.