

5 Live Science Podcast
BBC Radio 5 Live
5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.
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Mar 26, 2012 • 26min
Naked Scientist: Heart Attack Predictor
This week on the Naked Scientist - a way to predict heart attacks that are about to happen, a way to block baldness, and we know there's an absolute zero for temperature, but is there an absolute maximum that you can't exceed?

Mar 22, 2012 • 50min
Frozen eyeballs and Einstein's off the hook
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod try to answer your science questions. This week we ponder why animal eyeballs don't freeze in the Arctic and the relief of the Einsteinian Relativists.

Mar 15, 2012 • 49min
Making rain and miraculous LEDs
Dr Karl joins Dr Rhod to answer your science questions. Counting calories, making rain and LEDs making more light than they should are just some of the mysteries delved into.

Mar 12, 2012 • 30min
Naked Scientist: Antimatter
On the latest editon of the Naked Scientist - Antimatter, the rules of physics say there should be at least as much antimatter in the Universe as there is matter, the material that we are made from. But scientists can't find it, suggesting either that we've got something wrong, or something else very exciting and important must be happening. Also, why the hand you type with can affect how you feel. As well as a look at some of this week's other leading science breakthroughs

Mar 8, 2012 • 49min
Solar flares
Dr Karl and Dr Rhod join forces to examine solar flares as one heads towards the earth. Microwaves and electromagnetic pulses are also under the spotlight.

Mar 5, 2012 • 27min
Naked Science: Gentlemen, hippos and silence.
Why the working classes are more gentlemanly than the upper classes, how hippos can select the sex of their offspring, and the discovery of a device which stops people talking.

Mar 1, 2012 • 49min
Dr Karl
Is the moon moving away from us and what could that mean...how much salt is too much...and why are water molecules like boomerangs?

Feb 27, 2012 • 23min
Naked Scientist: Frozen flowers, feeding foetuses
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues talk us through the week's science news including the recreation of 30 thousand year old flowers and the importance of what mothers eat before conception.

Feb 23, 2012 • 48min
Spherical planets
Why juicing greens might not be the best idea, exactly what sound is and why planets are spherical are all under the microscope as Dr Giles joins Dr Karl.

Feb 20, 2012 • 24min
Naked Scientist: Computers; from the biggest to one of the smallest and self med
Dr Chris Smith and colleagues explore one of the biggest computers that's getting bigger and one of the smallest computers that'll be with us soon. Also, what do some fruit flies use alcohol for?


