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06.04.2023

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: are ecstasy and LSD set to become new treatments for depression? Who’s chattier in their first year of life, boys or ...

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06.04.2023 Alleviating Allergies Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: are ecstasy and LSD set to become new treatments for depression? Who’s chattier in their first year of life, boys or ...
05.28.2023 Memory, mosquitos and mowing the lawn Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: What attracts mosquitoes to some people but not others? Grow not mow: why one Cambridge college has broken hundreds of years ...
05.21.2023 Your questions answered Chris Smith and the panel are answering the questions you've been sending in over the past few weeks. New episodes released weekly. If you're in the UK, for more BBC podcasts listen on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3UjecF5
05.14.2023 Singing fish and building better batteries Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: A breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, and the fish that communicate by singing. Plus we’re looking at improvements that ...
05.07.2023 Sport and concussion injuries Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: What should we make of claims that China is building super weapons to hack and hijack US satellites? We also hear ...
04.28.2023 Obesity Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In this week's episode: we speak to the team that think they’re close to cracking the male contraceptive pill. And the WHO announce their ...
04.23.2023 Black Holes and the Dark Side of the Moon Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: Scientists test out a new universal flu vaccine that fights all flus and last for several years. And why Pink Floyd’s ...
04.16.2023 What is Pain? Chris Berrow presents 5 Live Science this week, looking at the future of solar power, why some people are sensitive to magnetic fields, and the scientists studying bird poo! Plus, what exactly is pain, and what happens when you can’t ...
04.09.2023 Is There Anybody Out There? Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: Nearly 2000 tech experts and scientists are calling for a halt to AI research: we talk to one of them. And ...
04.02.2023 Dinosaur faces, laughing gas, and repairing broken gadgets Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: Why we might need to re-draw dinosaur faces: it turns out T Rex had lips - how did we miss that? ...
03.26.2023 The High Seas Treaty Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: how scientists are making measuring animal welfare a top priority on farms, and why superglue might be the key to superior ...
03.19.2023 Recharging In Nature Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week: How doctors in the US have “cured” a woman with HIV. Does Venus have volcanoes? Re-examining 30 year old probe footage has ...
03.12.2023 Q&A: Ask Us Anything Dr Chris Smith is joined by a space scientist, a geologist, a psychologist and a linguist to answer some of the science questions you've been sending to the 5 Live Science team. To ask a question for a future edition, ...
03.05.2023 What can the Earth tell us about itself? Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme we look at how taking a daily brisk walk could take 25% off your mortality rate. The northern - and southern ...
02.26.2023 Male Pill, Invisible Shrimp, & Fusion Power in Future? Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week: the likelihood of commercial fusion power by 2040, male contraceptive pills, how shrimp use a trick of the light to disappear, and ...
02.19.2023 Gene therapy, the world's biggest penguin, and the threat from bird flu We explore how the gene therapy worked to save the life of 19 month old MLD victim Teddi Shaw, hear about a new system to make seeds sow themselves, meet the world's biggest fossil penguin, and size up the threat ...
02.12.2023 Quakes, bad indoor air, and will we be eating bacteria in future? Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. Why Turkey can expect aftershocks for up to a year, as we examine the science behind this week's massive earthquake. Plus encrypted letters from ...
02.05.2023 Transplanted brains, sugar taxes and satellites Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week: Human brain tissue transplants wire themselves into rat brains, signs sugar taxes cut obesity, and the science of satellites, including the company ...
01.29.2023 Can a chatbot be a good broadcaster? Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: is paying people to switch off their electricity the right strategy? We hear about bacteria that can eat ocean plastic. And ...
01.22.2023 History of Booze Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In this week's programme: How hair follicles might hold the key to reversing scars, but not just in skin: in hearts and other organs ...
01.15.2023 All aboard 'Boaty McBoatface' Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week we discover a breakthrough in treating type 2 diabetes, and find out why the Virgin Orbital launch failed earlier this week Plus, ...
01.08.2023 New Year's Q&A Dr Chris Smith and a panel of experts answer your science questions for the New Year, including: how starts burn for millions of years? How do you create a nation of mathematicians? And how can misinformation change the shapes of ...
01.01.2023 The Best Of 5 Live Science 2022 This week, we bring you the best of 5 Live Science from the year just gone, including the James Webb Space Telescope, clocks so accurate they can tell the time difference between your head and your feet, and science proves ...
12.18.2022 The Science of Magnetism Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: A breakthrough in nuclear fusion: what’s happened and what does this mean in practical terms? A new way to stop your ...
12.11.2022 8 billion people and counting Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: The old liver drug that turns out also to be able to prevent Covid-19 infection and the Artificial Intelligence systems that ...
12.04.2022 5 live Science Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the latest science news and analysis.
11.27.2022 Putting tuberculosis under the microscope James Tytko, Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week: A new rapid way to tell heart failure from a chest infection - just with a sample of breath. How ...
11.20.2022 Your questions answered, including: how do black holes work? Dr Chris Smith and a panel of experts answer your science questions. Including: why the Neanderthal in us might alter our susceptibility to Covid 19, how black holes work, and why do we run a temperature when we get ill?
11.13.2022 Long Covid Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. This week: How researchers are growing new blood in the lab, and the scientists planning for potential alien communications. We also look at long ...
11.06.2022 What happens to our bodies when the clocks change? Chris Berrow, Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: A new way of tackling epilepsy, does birdsong really make you feel calmer, and we hear from scientists fight ...
10.30.2022 We See Monsters! Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs, including: The new health survey calling on 5 million Brits to improve disease detection. Bees shock scientists studying electricity generated by their buzzing! And ...
10.23.2022 Cancer accomplices and lost fishing nets. Dr. Chris Smith updates you with the latest science news, including how cancer cells can use bacteria as accomplices, and surprising statistics on the amount of fishing equipment lost at sea. Plus capturing carbon underground, and an examination of the ...
10.16.2022 Fract or Fiction: We drill down into the science of fracking Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. Will fracking solve the energy crisis? Exoboots to aid walking, and spotting Alzheimer's earlier.
10.09.2022 Science Nobel Winners Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: A rundown on this week’s science Nobel prizes, why paracetamol might cause behavioural problems in children born to mums who used ...
10.09.2022 A rundown of the Nobel Prizes Dr Chris Smith looks at the Nobel Prizes, paracetamol and the spacecraft that crashed into an asteroid.
09.25.2022 How many calories are there in a brain? The mailbag was bulging, so we dived in to answer your science questions this week. Including how many calories you'd find in a human brain, why methane's a worse greenhouse gas than CO2, and the claim that MI5 phoned up ...
09.18.2022 Dealing with Dogma Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: the plastic that sterilises itself, and why sweeteners are worse for you than sugar. Plus we look at scientific dogmas and ...
09.13.2022 The Human Microbiome Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. Including: Scientists uncover the world’s earliest amputation patient, and are GP zoom appointments as good at getting the diagnosis as a face to face ...
09.04.2022 Moderna vs Pfizer, Marijuana, Coffee and Cancer, and water water not everywhere... This week we explore the grounds for the vaccine spat between two rival pharmaceutical giants, a study shows marijuana users are less laid back than we thought, is coffee linked to cancer, and, in the grip of drought, what the ...
08.28.2022 Walking the Solar System without leaving Earth Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest developments in Malaria vaccines, how to immunise people against fake news and explore the Solar System from the safety of the Earth.
08.21.2022 The new Moderna vaccination and a revolution in kidney transplant treatment Chris Berrow looks at what the new Moderna vaccination is capable of and discusses a revolution in kidney transplant treatment.
08.14.2022 5 live Science Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team find out why 1 million children will be offered polio boosters in London, meet the scientists using robotic ants to find out how real ants learn and discover why you might want ...
08.07.2022 5 live Science Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team discover why some supermarkets are binning 'best before dates', if Earth had its 'shortest day ever' and ask if vaping is dangerous.
07.24.2022 5 Live Science Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. In today’s programme: Why woodpeckers don’t get brain damage. Plus rocket fuel, but not as we know it and much more sustainable. And we ...
07.17.2022 Chatbots that look like they're alive, and what colour wine bottles to avoid Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. The week the team review some of the scientific highlights of the last month, including what the James Webb telescope will reveal about our ...
07.10.2022 Ghost Pond Resurrection Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with science news stories and analysis.
07.03.2022 Putting Emerging Infections Under The Microscope Chris Smith is joined by Julia Ravey to examine how emerging infections can spread, they look at a new way of managing pain that doesn't involve drugs and explore what can be done in the Metaverse.
06.26.2022 Keeping the lights on with renewable energy Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with science news stories and analysis. In today’s programme: Scientists discover the world’s biggest bacterium, evidence that we pick our friends based on how they smell, and do brain training apps really work? ...
06.19.2022 5live Science JUNE SCI-LIGHTS From conserving wildlife and ivory to Love Island fashion, predicting volcanic eruptions and the possibility of life on Venus, these are the science stories everybody ought to be talking about...
06.10.2022 Bad Air, 4 day working week and where did chickens come from? The hottest science news, stories and analysis from Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists.

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