5 Live Science Podcast

Dr Chris Smith looks at how using eye contact on cereal packaging can influence sales, how water has been found inside one of Saturn's moons and why young smokers are more prone who have sons who grow up obese.

In a short episode because of breaking news, Dr Karl discusses why 1959 Cadillacs had the biggest fins ever, reflecting eyes, and seaweed as fuel.

New insights into the structure of bones, the solar system gains a new dwarf planet, and the biological equivalent of scaling Mount Everest.

The science of Laryingitis, God versus Luciferase and whether a venomous creature can die from its own bite

Dr Chris and the Naked Scienctists talk about gravitational waves from the Big Bang, the UK announces a powerful new supercomputer and we find out why it's impractical to attempt air travel by just hovering above the ground and letting the Earth turn beneath you.

Quasars, lack of sleep killing brain cells and immature handwriting

Dr Chris and the Naked Scientists look at contagious yawning (you either do or you don't), the hidden fast food peril on your route to work and what goes "Crash Bang Squelch"?

Dr Karl talks to Dr Dotun about Great White sharks, black holes, and red hot showers.

Dr. Chris Smith presents science news, including a new gene therapy technique to protect the immune systems of patients with HIV, and the thirteen year old boy who achieved nuclear fusion.