5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs,

In this week's episode... a damning indictment of our politician’s grasp of science emerges from the COVID enquiry. We’ll ask who is behind the high-profile cyber attacks on the British Library and how researchers got to the bottom of why some of us get red wine headaches. Plus we find out what it’s like to live with Parkinson’s disease and what is science revealing about why it happens and what we can do to make life more bearable.

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Will Tingle and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

This week, the decision to give chickenpox vaccines to kids: what changed medics' minds? Also, spinal injuries, the building blocks of life and why the universe has a speed limit.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode, the drug Anastrozole can prevent thousands of cases of breast cancer among older women, but at what cost? Climate change expert Mark Maslin on what we need to know about the forthcoming COP 28 summit that’s going to kick off soon in Dubai. How the UK’s hedgehogs have been going through something of a rough patch recently. Plus we’ll take a look at what the James Webb space telescope has been teaching us.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs,

In this week's episode... Winter flu season hits the northern hemisphere but how are scientists trying to stay one step ahead of the virus, we’ll be unpacking the Artificial Intelligence summit that’s been happening at historic Bletchley Park and we’ll be finding out why the world famous cockney accent is dying out among the young in the Southeast of England. Plus as the ongoing COVID enquiry lays bare the mistakes been made during the pandemic, we speak to experts on how we can be better prepared for the next one.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode...there’s new analysis on the prevalence of long covid, how widespread is it? Could climate change be making hurricanes in the Atlantic stronger? And as we are in the middle of the spookiest time of year is it time to reappraise the benefits of a few organisms that are considered gross, dangerous and scary.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode...the mouthguard technology that is helping tackle head knocks in sport. We’ll assess the impact that space junk is having on our atmosphere. It’s that time of year again. As many parts of the world prepare to change their clocks, we’ll examine the case for doing away with the practice altogether.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode...the rise of the bed bugs, leading bed bug expert James Logan tells us all we need to know, could genetically modified pig kidneys soon be transplanted into the humans? The clinical trial ixs now awaiting approval. And why it might be time for us to reappraise the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Plus in our Titans of Science series, we hear from England’s former chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies on her career in the top job and the antibiotic apocalypse that she’s made it her mission to combat.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode...Will a new vaccine help to turn the tide against malaria? As Japan releases radioactive water into the sea from Fukushima, should we be worried? What and who have won Nobel prizes this year? And why a lion’s roar isn’t the most feared sound on the South African Savanna.

Plus in our Titans of Science series, we talk to Lord Robert Winston, the pioneer of IVF treatment.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode... we discuss a future proof Covid jab that combats variants that don’t even exist yet, signs that antimatter does obey the rules of gravity and why one doomsday scenario is predicting we’re all going to wiped out in 250 million years’ time when plate tectonics give us a new super continent.

Plus in our Titans of Science series, we talk to former Chief Medical Advisor to the White House, Dr Anthony Fauci, about what It was like working with Donald Trump across Covid and his handling of the first cases of HIV in the USA back in the 1980s.

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.

In this week's episode... A breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries, worrying news about red fire ants in Sicily, we look at what it means for us in the UK and NASA is sending a sample of an asteroid back to Earth - it arrives this weekend - find out what scientists are hoping to learn.

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