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 Mar 28, 2021
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5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.


Episode Date
Why whooping cough cases are surging and looking for life on Europa
Mar 24, 2024
COVID-19, 4 years on.
Mar 15, 2024
The gene that turns Labradors into gluttons, migratory birds and the oldest known dead galaxy.
Mar 10, 2024
Cyber Crimes in Cyber Times
Mar 10, 2024
Lithium batteries, human tails and the science behind potholes
Mar 03, 2024
Whale songs, fake fossils and "Forever Chemicals"
Feb 25, 2024
Dengue fever, sense of humour and fish skin
Feb 18, 2024
Blueberries, cancer waiting lists and assisted dying
Feb 11, 2024
Elon Musk's brain implants and the science of shipping
Feb 04, 2024
Retinas, biological cells and pond skater insects.
Jan 28, 2024
The Black Death, wine measures and pot holes
Jan 21, 2024
Titans of Science: Professor Deborah Prentice
Jan 14, 2024
Measles, Terror Chatbots and the Microbiome
Jan 07, 2024
Quantum Leap
Dec 31, 2023
Christmas science stories and computer games
Dec 24, 2023
Titans of Science: Chris Hadfield
Dec 17, 2023
Covid Inquiry, fossilised trees in the Fens, and getting Britons moving
Dec 10, 2023
COP28, swine flu, Bennu asteroid and digital twins.
Dec 03, 2023
Cyber attacks, red wine headaches and Parkinson’s disease
Nov 26, 2023
Chickenpox, Champion Jockeys and Light Speed
Nov 19, 2023
Anastrozole, COP 28, hedgehogs and the James Webb space telescope
Nov 12, 2023
Winter flu, AI Summit, Cockney accent and the COVID enquiry
Nov 05, 2023
Long COVID, Hurricanes and "Spooky" Organisms.
Oct 29, 2023
Mouthguard technology, space junk and Is it time to stop changing the clocks?
Oct 22, 2023
Titans of Science: Dame Sally Davies
Oct 15, 2023
New malaria vaccine, radioactive water and Lord Robert Winston
Oct 08, 2023
Covid vaccine for all variants, and Anthony Fauci in conversation
Oct 01, 2023
Spinal cord injury treatments, red fire ants and asteroid samples.
Sep 24, 2023
Titans of Science: Helen Sharman (Part 2)
Sep 17, 2023
Titans of Science: Helen Sharman
Sep 10, 2023
Eating well without compromising on taste
Sep 03, 2023
India Land on the Moon
Aug 27, 2023
The real Oppenheimer
Aug 20, 2023
Q&A
Aug 06, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
Jul 30, 2023
Tackling Depression
Jul 23, 2023
Protecting the Oceans
Jul 14, 2023
We answer your questions
Jul 09, 2023
Light Pollution
Jul 02, 2023
Titan sub and an HIV vaccine
Jun 25, 2023
UFOs - What do we know?
Jun 18, 2023
Fossils - why there is so much excitement at the moment?
Jun 11, 2023
Alleviating Allergies
Jun 04, 2023
Memory, mosquitos and mowing the lawn
May 28, 2023
Your questions answered
May 21, 2023
Singing fish and building better batteries
May 14, 2023
Sport and concussion injuries
May 07, 2023
Obesity
Apr 28, 2023
Black Holes and the Dark Side of the Moon
Apr 23, 2023
What is Pain?
Apr 16, 2023
Is There Anybody Out There?
Apr 09, 2023
Dinosaur faces, laughing gas, and repairing broken gadgets
Apr 02, 2023
The High Seas Treaty
Mar 26, 2023
Recharging In Nature
Mar 19, 2023
Q&A: Ask Us Anything
Mar 12, 2023
What can the Earth tell us about itself?
Mar 05, 2023
Male Pill, Invisible Shrimp, & Fusion Power in Future?
Feb 26, 2023
Gene therapy, the world's biggest penguin, and the threat from bird flu
Feb 19, 2023
Quakes, bad indoor air, and will we be eating bacteria in future?
Feb 12, 2023
Transplanted brains, sugar taxes and satellites
Feb 05, 2023
Can a chatbot be a good broadcaster?
Jan 29, 2023
History of Booze
Jan 22, 2023
All aboard 'Boaty McBoatface'
Jan 15, 2023
New Year's Q&A
Jan 08, 2023
The Best Of 5 Live Science 2022
Jan 01, 2023
The Science of Magnetism
Dec 18, 2022
8 billion people and counting
Dec 11, 2022
5 live Science
Dec 04, 2022
Putting tuberculosis under the microscope
Nov 27, 2022
Your questions answered, including: how do black holes work?
Nov 20, 2022
Long Covid
Nov 13, 2022
What happens to our bodies when the clocks change?
Nov 06, 2022
We See Monsters!
Oct 30, 2022
Cancer accomplices and lost fishing nets.
Oct 23, 2022
Fract or Fiction: We drill down into the science of fracking
Oct 16, 2022
Science Nobel Winners
Oct 09, 2022
A rundown of the Nobel Prizes
Oct 09, 2022
How many calories are there in a brain?
Sep 25, 2022
Dealing with Dogma
Sep 18, 2022
The Human Microbiome
Sep 13, 2022
Moderna vs Pfizer, Marijuana, Coffee and Cancer, and water water not everywhere...
Sep 04, 2022
Walking the Solar System without leaving Earth
Aug 28, 2022
The new Moderna vaccination and a revolution in kidney transplant treatment
Aug 21, 2022
5 live Science
Aug 14, 2022
5 live Science
Aug 07, 2022
5 Live Science
Jul 24, 2022
Chatbots that look like they're alive, and what colour wine bottles to avoid
Jul 17, 2022
Ghost Pond Resurrection
Jul 10, 2022
Putting Emerging Infections Under The Microscope
Jul 03, 2022
Keeping the lights on with renewable energy
Jun 26, 2022
5live Science JUNE SCI-LIGHTS
Jun 19, 2022
Bad Air, 4 day working week and where did chickens come from?
Jun 10, 2022
70 Years of Science Innovation
Jun 05, 2022
Monkeypox, Insight's journey on Mars, and the pros and cons of solar power
May 29, 2022
Investigating War Crimes
May 25, 2022
AD FAB
May 15, 2022
It's Q 'n' 'May' Time!
May 08, 2022
Wake up and smell the coffee…
May 01, 2022
Dogs, Dingoes and Contagious Cancers
Apr 24, 2022
Hot Cross Puns: Easter Science Q & A
Apr 17, 2022
Science in Film
Apr 10, 2022
Buying Breast Milk Online
Apr 03, 2022
Covid, Nuclear Energy...and Lettuce!
Mar 27, 2022
Bad Habits
Mar 20, 2022
Bad Habits
Mar 20, 2022
Cyberwarfare
Mar 13, 2022
Making the Invisible Visible
Mar 06, 2022
The Father of Viagra, and a man with an asteroid named after him!
Feb 27, 2022
Xenotransplantation
Feb 20, 2022
The Origins of Covid 19
Feb 13, 2022
Would Saturn Float?
Feb 06, 2022
Why do we lose our sense of smell?
Jan 30, 2022
5 live science
Jan 23, 2022
The Sword of Damascus, cutting covid isolation
Jan 16, 2022
A century of insulin, hedgehogs and MRSA
Jan 09, 2022
Good News Science Stories from 2021
Jan 02, 2022
A Christmas Quandary
Dec 19, 2021
Life in plastic, is it fantastic?
Dec 12, 2021
Festive Q&A: Rubies, Robots and Christmas 'Rapping'
Dec 05, 2021
Covid, NASA, and Wood!
Nov 28, 2021
Climate Change and Covid
Nov 21, 2021
Malaria, Mars, and Monstrous Ducks!
Nov 14, 2021
Climate Change, Dating and Spiders
Nov 07, 2021
To Plan B, Or Not To Plan B
Oct 31, 2021
How Much Did The World's Largest Pumpkin Weigh?
Oct 24, 2021
All The Small Things
Oct 17, 2021
Supply Chain Reaction
Oct 10, 2021
Menopause for thought
Oct 03, 2021
Off-limits bits of the Universe, and a lack of CO2
Sep 26, 2021
Off-limits bits of the Universe, and a lack of CO2
Sep 26, 2021
AI vs Sepsis
Sep 19, 2021
What is covid immunity?
Sep 12, 2021
Long Covid
Sep 05, 2021
Can nature solve the climate crisis for us?
Aug 29, 2021
Q&A: Bugs, behaviour, and biosensing tech
Aug 22, 2021
Will incentives boost Covid vaccine uptake?
Aug 15, 2021
Are we ready for the electric vehicle revolution?
Aug 08, 2021
The beginning of the end of the Covid pandemic?
Aug 01, 2021
Summer Science Q & HEY!
Jul 25, 2021
Are face masks fit for purpose?
Jul 18, 2021
Are facemasks fit for purpose?
Jul 18, 2021
Are Covid numbers low enough to remove restrictions?
Jul 11, 2021
Is mixing Covid vaccines a good idea?
Jul 04, 2021
Why calories aren't all equal
Jun 27, 2021
Covid vaccine hesitancy: What are the reasons?
Jun 20, 2021
The Science of the Sun
Jun 13, 2021
Covid 19 and dogs that can find it, underwater glue, and birdsong.
Jun 06, 2021
UFOs, Covid oxygen and the man who found the Titanic
May 30, 2021
Lab-grown Mini-hearts
May 23, 2021
Fermented foods: Healthy or all a myth?
May 16, 2021
Making Homes Cleaner and Greener
May 09, 2021
The Martian author Andy Weir
May 02, 2021
The Martian author Andy Weir
May 02, 2021
Science of Radio
Apr 25, 2021
Seed Science
Apr 18, 2021
The Hospital of the Future
Apr 11, 2021
Bitcoins and Blockchains: Cryptocurrency Explained
Apr 08, 2021
Covid vaccine trials, a decade since the Fukushima disaster & wine that has been in orbit
Mar 28, 2021
Covid vaccines, what goes down the toilet, and Ancient Egypt.
Mar 23, 2021
A meteorite in the driveway, and the carbon footprint of medicinal cannabis
Mar 14, 2021
Vaccinating Variants, and Solar Storms
Mar 08, 2021
The impact of COVID vaccines, how to fly a helicopter on Mars and the educational cost of lockdown.
Feb 28, 2021
COVID vaccine efficacy rates and the origins of the coronavirus pandemic
Feb 21, 2021
Self-experimentation
Feb 14, 2021
Mixing vaccines, capturing the 99th element, and the sex lives of crickets
Feb 07, 2021
Vaccine controversy and a look inside the world of medical imaging
Jan 31, 2021
How are new variants of coronavirus found?
Jan 24, 2021
Speeding Up Covid Testing, Predicting Who Gets 'Long Covid', and How Video Games Change How You Think
Jan 17, 2021
The science to expect from 2021
Jan 10, 2021
Special Naked Scientist Stories from 2020
Jan 03, 2021
Cake, Cows, Climate Change: Best Of 5 Live Science, 2020
Dec 27, 2020
The new strain of coronavirus, George's Marvellous Medicine, and musical computers
Dec 20, 2020
The covid vaccine, research into AIDS, and cutting the carbon in crisps
Dec 13, 2020
The Coronavirus Vaccine, artificial vision and how science and technology came together to save Romain Grosjean
Dec 06, 2020
Squats, globe skimmers and early human migration
Nov 29, 2020
Covid vaccines, and the science of people moving
Nov 22, 2020
How our planet moves
Nov 15, 2020
Movement of animals and protecting bio-diversity.
Nov 08, 2020
Barrington v John Snow: How best to control Covid-19?
Nov 01, 2020
Catching Coronavirus on Purpose
Oct 25, 2020
Can you catch Covid twice?
Oct 18, 2020
Nobel Prizes, Attenborough's new film, and Treating Trump
Oct 11, 2020
Science of Vegetarianism
Oct 04, 2020
Big Data
Sep 25, 2020
The science of telescopes
Sep 20, 2020
Discussing the latest developments, and your questions answered
Sep 13, 2020
Gardening and Climate Change
Sep 06, 2020
Where did COVID come from?
Aug 30, 2020
Dust, oceans and if a phone can tell whether you're drunk
Aug 23, 2020
5 Live Science
Aug 16, 2020
5 Live Science : 09/08/2020
Aug 09, 2020
02/08/2020
Aug 02, 2020
The Naked Scientists Pub Quiz
Jul 26, 2020
Meet the neighbours: An update on Mars and Venus
Jul 19, 2020
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists take the fight against coronavirus to the sewers
Jul 12, 2020
How coronavirus has created new ideas to tackle global warming
Jul 05, 2020
Journey to the centre of the Earth
Jun 28, 2020
The Science Pub Quiz
Jun 21, 2020
The fifth state of matter
Jun 14, 2020
The global race to find a vaccine for Covid-19
Jun 07, 2020
The chemical fingerprint for COVID 19, and adapting to the "new normal".
May 31, 2020
Loss of smell and coronavirus
May 24, 2020
The Covid-19 Digital Detective
May 17, 2020
The Science of World War II
May 10, 2020
Coronavirus symptom trackers and plasma treatment for Covid-19
May 03, 2020
Naked Scientists: The Science Behind Wearing Face Masks
Apr 26, 2020
Naked Scientists
Apr 19, 2020
Bubbles, Balloons and Blooms: April Q and A
Apr 12, 2020
The science of coronavirus
Apr 05, 2020
Boom! The Naked Scientists at the Cambridge Science Festival
Mar 28, 2020
5 Live Science - The latest on coronavirus
Mar 22, 2020
Dr Karl: Coronavirus, immune systems and more than one brain?
Mar 19, 2020
Dr Karl: Coronavirus, Panic Attacks and the Effect of Copper & Silver on Bacteria
Mar 12, 2020
What's a white hole?
Mar 08, 2020
Dr Karl: The nature of human consciousness and hot toddies
Mar 05, 2020
Naked Scientists: Bright Neanderthals, Beached Whales and Green Men on Mars
Mar 01, 2020
Dr Karl And Coronavirus
Feb 27, 2020
Naked Scientists:Electricity from air, badgers to help solving flooding, and A.I. in medicine
Feb 23, 2020
Dr Karl: Coronavirus, reducing cholesterol and testing to see if eggs are still fresh!
Feb 20, 2020
Naked Scientists: Body Clock, Bee Reproduction, Turbulence
Feb 16, 2020
Dr Karl: Coronavirus, Bush Fires and Black Holes
Feb 13, 2020
Naked Scientists: Gene Editing, Furry Arteries and Wasps Nests
Feb 09, 2020
Dr Karl: Corona Virus, Electric Cars and Grand Solar Minimums
Feb 07, 2020
Naked Scientists: Veganism, Climate and AI Cancer Screening
Feb 02, 2020
Dr Karl: Space trash! Space crash!
Jan 30, 2020
Naked Scientists: What can we do about food waste?
Jan 26, 2020
Dr Karl: The Hockey Stick Climatologist
Jan 23, 2020
Naked Scientists: Climate change, diabetes and origami
Jan 19, 2020
How climate change affects food production, a new way to treat type 1 diabetes and origami
Jan 19, 2020
Dr. Karl: Eyesight, wind and colour
Jan 16, 2020
A new virus, marathon running, and returning to the moon.
Jan 12, 2020
Dr Karl: Fossils, Magnetic Fields and Smart Phone AI
Jan 10, 2020
Bianca Nogrady : Australian fires, dolphin snot and puffin tools
Jan 02, 2020
A trip down memory lane: science in 2019, month by month
Dec 29, 2019
5 Live Science Christmas Special
Dec 24, 2019
Is fat worse than sugar, and can you die of a broken heart?
Dec 22, 2019
Dr Petr: Speed of light, particles and memory
Dec 19, 2019
Lab-grown skin, avalanches and the sun's magnetic field
Dec 15, 2019
Dr. Karl
Dec 12, 2019
Climate change, virtual reality gloves and the perfect hangover remedy?
Dec 08, 2019
Dr Karl: Baking Bread, Aqua Energy and Dried Cereal On Your Breakfast Bowl
Dec 05, 2019
Glow Worms And Space Tourism
Dec 01, 2019
Dr Karl: Carbon Capture, Micro-Plastics and Human Progression
Nov 29, 2019
Dr Karl: Virtual Reality, Sharks and Hydrogen Cars
Nov 21, 2019
Electricity, hiccups and the power of phenomics
Nov 17, 2019
Dr Karl: The Moon, Particle Physics, and Quantum computers
Nov 14, 2019
Recycling
Nov 10, 2019
Dr Karl: Carbon, Trees and Fizzy Drinks
Nov 07, 2019
5 live Science
Nov 03, 2019
Dr Karl
Oct 31, 2019
5 live Science
Oct 27, 2019
Dr Karl wonders if you can use the Earth's magnetic field to generate electricity.
Oct 24, 2019
5 live Science
Oct 20, 2019
Dr Karl
Oct 17, 2019
5 Live Science
Oct 13, 2019
Dr Karl
Oct 11, 2019
The Naked Scientists - Your Science Questions Answered
Oct 06, 2019
Dr. Karl: Geese, Lies and numbers
Oct 03, 2019
5 live Science
Sep 29, 2019
Dr Karl & Rhod talk Space
Sep 26, 2019
Rhod is joined by Dr. Karl & Matt Parker
Sep 26, 2019
5 Live Science
Sep 22, 2019
5Live Science
Sep 15, 2019
5 Live Science – Sexually Transmitted Infections Under The Microscope
Sep 15, 2019
Dr Karl: Light Years, Lymphoma & Lazing
Sep 12, 2019
5 Live Science
Sep 08, 2019
Dr Karl: Gravity, AI & Pop Science
Sep 05, 2019
5 Live Science
Sep 01, 2019
5 live Science
Aug 25, 2019
5 live Science
Aug 18, 2019
Dr Karl
Aug 15, 2019
5 live Science
Aug 11, 2019
Dr Karl
Aug 08, 2019
04/08/2019
Aug 04, 2019
Dr Karl
Aug 01, 2019
The science of simulation
Jul 28, 2019
The Science of Simulation
Jul 28, 2019
Dr Karl
Jul 25, 2019
5 Live Science
Jul 21, 2019
Dr Karl
Jul 18, 2019
5 live Science
Jul 14, 2019
5 Live Science with Dr. Chris Smith
Jul 07, 2019
5 live Science
Jun 30, 2019
Dr Karl
Jun 27, 2019
Naked Scientists - Extreme Cold
Jun 23, 2019
Dr Karl
Jun 20, 2019
Your Science Questions Answered
Jun 16, 2019
Dr Karl
Jun 13, 2019
Extreme Speed
Jun 09, 2019
Rhod and Dr. Karl talk Starlink satellites, red wine & more.
Jun 06, 2019
Naked Scientists
Jun 02, 2019
Dr Karl
May 30, 2019
Naked Scientists - Roads and Travel
May 26, 2019
Dr Karl answers your science questions.
May 23, 2019
5 live Science
May 19, 2019
Dr Karl
May 16, 2019
5 Live Science with Dr. Chris Smith
May 12, 2019
Dr Karl answers your science questions.
May 09, 2019
5 live Science
May 04, 2019
5 live Science
May 02, 2019