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Dr Karl answers your science questions, including why a laser will de-luminate luminous material, what time is, and how opinion polls work.

Dr Karl with the latest science news and your questions on 3D graphics, alchemy, how spiders weave their webs, and much, much more.

Dr Chris Smith looks at emailing your doctor and personalised medecine.

Dr Karl with the latest science news and your questions

Dr Karl with the latest science news and your questions

Naked Scientist Chris Smith teams up with Simon Morton from Radio New Zealand’s This Way Up programme to discuss nanoparticles, UV light and plants, multiple sclerosis and global warming.

The latest scientific discoveries and news. This week: passport photo recognition, connecting breastfeeding to postnatal depression and we take a look at the science of food

This week, in the first of two special editions of the programme, Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists is joined by panel of New Zealand scientists to talk about their latest work, along with Simon Morton from Radio New Zealand's 'This Way Up' programme. They will hear how lasers are being used to sort sperm for the dairy industry, and why radio transmitters are being strapped to the backs of bees.

5 live's science podcast, featuring Dr Karl, with the hottest science news stories and analysis. Topics include super moons, battery chargers and 3D printing.

This week from the Naked Scientists - from Call of Duty to Pokémon Heart of Gold, are video games bad for our kids? Why mathematician Alan Turing is still influencing new discoveries 60 years after his death, the fat bears that could lead to a treatment for diabetes, we hear about the possibility of energy from oil eating microbes, and we take a longer look at the diamond light source – Britain’s biggest scientific machine.

Naked Scientist Chris Smith with the hottest science news stories, analysis and breakthroughs - this episode is a special edition recorded at the Cambridge Science Centre and looks at topics including how animals survive in the cold and what's being done to save coral reefs.

5 live's science podcast, featuring Dr Karl, with the hottest science news stories and analysis. Topics include athletics, electric cars and cigarette smoke.

This week the naked science team look at jealous dogs, beef off the menu, mammoth comeback, and ancient bacteria and moss regrown.

Dr Karl discusses whether police could stop cars with electricity pulses and whether you can improve your memory as you get older in the science phone-in.

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