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5 Live Science Podcast
5 Live's science podcast, featuring Dr Chris and Naked Scientists with the hottest science news stories and analysis.
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1112 episodesTitans of Science: Marc Abrahams
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
Including the news that the US has reco...
Titans of Science: David Baker
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look at the year ahead, and asking leading experts from the world of science what we can expect to hear about...
Titans of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look back at the year in science, and ask leading experts in the fields of health, AI, space, marine science,...
A gaming special & The best of 2024
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look back at some of 2024's top science stories, and in part 2 hand over to our Naked Gamers… Chris Berrow...
OCD, Obesity, and Dark Comets
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
Including a chat with Dr Chris Van Tull...
Nuclear power, AI weather forecasts, and Do crabs feel pain?
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
Including a new AI system set to transf...
The ambition to eliminate HIV transmission by 2030
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's science news: the first...
Vampire bats, Leeches, and Diet-conscious spiders
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, with an animal-themed special. Including what prompted scientists to put...
Weight loss jabs, COP29, and Brainy birds
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news. Including a look at what is at stake at this year's UN Climate Summit, an...
Smartphones, Black holes, and Pompeii
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news. Including an enormous black hole defying our existing laws of physics, an...
Election interference, Mpox, and A lost city
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news. Including the news that the UK has detected its first case of a new Mpox...
Cancer, Clock changes, Life on Jupiter?
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news. Including the news that Chris Hoy has revealed his diagnosis with termina...
Vegan diets, New forms of insulin, and Meteor origins
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news. Including a new form of insulin that can switch itself off before blood s...
Brain injuries, Man-eating lions, and the Nobel Prize
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news. Including how scientists found the DNA of human victims in the teeth of a...
Lockdown legacy, Brian Cox, Electric car espionage?
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news. Including whether electric cars may pose a potential security threat, how...
Fruity vapes, Ancient cheese, and Cancer vaccines
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week we look into signs that fruit...
Engineering new solutions to climate change
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: What do we know about the pa...
COVID-19 lockdowns, nuclear waste and puffins
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's episode….how COVID -19 l...
Digging up new uses for old mines
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: Scientists uncover a way to...
Mpox, smoking and the ISS
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's episode: How the UK look...
Is there a link between some cosmetics and cancer?
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: The regulator says the Alzhe...
Mpox, Clever Horses, and Circadian Rhythms
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: we discuss the spread of mpo...
Aliens, Dark Energy and Brian Schmidt
The Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: scientists think they've revealed what makes ke...
Bird flu, fog harvesting and dark matter
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's episode…. Scientists sho...
Extreme athletic performance
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: New muscles on a chip techno...
Why do seagulls try to steal your chips?
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's episode…. we discuss se...
Covid app findings, AI writing, and brainy birds
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week we discover what the Covid ap...
Long Covid, Mosquitos and Formula 1
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs,
In this week's episode…. body scans gi...
Titans of Science: Geoffrey Hinton
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
And our series Titans of Science return...
E. coli, DNA sniffing, and tracking trees
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: how scientists are getting t...
Mini-guts, the universe as a bagel, gambling addiction
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week: could lab-grown mini-guts he...
Neurological diseases, carbon dioxide and dark matter
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs,
In this week's episode….are we getting...
Genetically modified mosquitos, and is the AI bubble about to burst?
This week: The genetically engineered mosquitoes released to fight malaria in Africa, how fake news skews public opinion, and what is it like to own...
5 Live Science Podcast 26th May
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with science news, stories & analysis.
The Science of Language
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team discover why children born by caesarean section are less likely to respond to their measles jabs, how anci...
Scientists find their first rocky planet with an atmosphere
The hottest science news, stories and analysis from Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists.
In this episode a new vaccine to build immunity and scien...
Zero Gravity
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week, as AstraZeneca acknowledged that t...
ADHD, sinking cities, and cleaning up oil spills
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's programme: scientists gi...
Smoking and vaping controls, the remains of the largest sea reptile, volcanic ash and jet engines and food production
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team discover:
Why we need stricter smoking and vaping controls and will they work?
The remains o...
Artificial platelets, Bonobos and a tribute to Peter Higgs
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
In this week's episode….Scientists inv...