5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Chris Smith and colleagues with science news. This week; fighting bacterial fire with fire and the plans to help the British Oyster make a comeback.

Dr Chris and colleagues share the latest science news with Dotun Adebayo. This week; the shiniest fruit in nature and how your online life affects the way you vote.

Are the seas getting saltier and where does soap come from. Dr Karl explains.

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl discuss the health effects on the body of ‘the man who fell to earth’ and the mystery of one callers evaporating fish tank water.

On this week's edition of the Naked Scientist: a Nobel prize for a Cambridge cloning pioneer, and an analysis of a meteorite landing in Morocco from Mars shows it contains samples from the red planet's interior, surface and even atmosphere

A new genetic test for babies, does the black mamba's venom contain a better painkiller than morphine and a shake-up for the world of seismology.

Can a dose of stem cells keep you youthful? And why do foetal cells trespass into the brains of pregnant women? Also; the research that could turn your clothes into pollution busting filters.

Dr Karl is joined by human evolution and anthropology expert Elizabeth Hagen and astronomer Simon O'Toole. They answer questions about Halley's Comet, the Mars Rover and how do we know what colour dinosaurs were?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with a weeks worth of science news including: rats bingeing on chocolate, the physics of pony tails and can you think yourself thin?

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl are joined by Professor Geraint Lewis, an expert on Astrophysics, Cosmology, Black Holes, Relativity and a huge number of other things.