5 Live Science Podcast

A new genetic test for babies, does the black mamba's venom contain a better painkiller than morphine and a shake-up for the world of seismology.

Can a dose of stem cells keep you youthful? And why do foetal cells trespass into the brains of pregnant women? Also; the research that could turn your clothes into pollution busting filters.

Dr Karl is joined by human evolution and anthropology expert Elizabeth Hagen and astronomer Simon O'Toole. They answer questions about Halley's Comet, the Mars Rover and how do we know what colour dinosaurs were?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with a weeks worth of science news including: rats bingeing on chocolate, the physics of pony tails and can you think yourself thin?

Dr Rhod and Dr Karl are joined by Professor Geraint Lewis, an expert on Astrophysics, Cosmology, Black Holes, Relativity and a huge number of other things.

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod are prefaced, in this edition, by two science stories; gas clouds at the centre of our galaxy and a bad smell in Los Angeles. After dealing with the lingering odour Dr Karl moves on to gravity waves and radiation.

Dr Chris and the team tell Dotun Adebayo a little about the science involved in the Paralympics and research to be done under the Antarctic ice sheet

On the latest edition: Dr Karl looks at the advances in stem cell research. Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes and others don't? The latest on nuclear fusion. And what's the quietest sound a person can hear?

Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss string theory, why medicine can't yet replace cartilage and why kettles go quiet as they near boiling point.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists find out about pacemakers for the brain, new ways to help after heart attack and find out whether the water we take out of the ground from aquifers being replaced.