Nature Podcast
Summary: Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show featuring highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. For complete access to the original papers featured in the Nature Podcast, subscribe to Nature.
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This week, mapping sound in the brain, dwindling groundwater, and giving common iron uncommon properties.
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'.
This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer.
This week, making plane fuel greener, yeast chromosomes synthesised from scratch, and seeking out hidden HIV.
As the First World War draws to an end, astronomer Arthur Eddington sets out on a challenging mission: to prove Einstein’s new theory of general relativity by measuring a total eclipse. The experiment became a defining example of how science should be done.
This week, the earliest known life, Neanderthal self-medication, and data storage in a single atom.
This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration.
AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell and Richard Hodson read you their favourite from February, 'Fermi's zookeepers' by David Gullen.
This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research
This week, Winston Churchill’s thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials.
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014]
This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown?
Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen?
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang.
