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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Podcasts:
Jonathan Shanklin was sifting through a backlog of data when he made the startling discovery of a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. In this podcast, he and others recall events in the mid-1980s and discuss how the 'ozone hole' became the poster child for environmentalism. Originally aired 17/05/2013.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell read you their favourite from April, ‘Choices, in sequential order’ by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.
This week, the value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains’ energy demands.
This week, a language map of the brain, listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake, and the Soviet internet that never was.
The fuss over editing human embryos dies down, the quantum expertise of Canada’s Prime Minister, and what it’s like to report for 24 hours straight.
This week, the psychology of climate change, the 1.5 degree temperature target, and what to do when climate change ruins your research.
This week, a computer game helps build a quantum computer, the brain’s built-in backup, and the history and science of hearing voices.
Everyone knows that Watson and Crick published a seminal paper on the structure of DNA. But fewer know that two other papers on DNA were published in the same issue of Nature. Learn more in the first of a new podcast series: the Nature PastCast. Originally aired 18/04/2013.
This week, apps that claim to treat mental health issues, ritual human sacrifice, and supernova debris on Earth.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Adjenia’ by Natalia Theodoridou.
This week, Antarctic-sized uncertainty, making gamers more polite, and a pocket gravity meter.
This week, toggling brain activity with radio waves, how to build stuff that lasts, and making thrillseekers into care-takers.
Misused statistics, the latest gossip on Google’s Go-playing AI, and watching mathematicians win prizes.
This week, retrieving lost memories, nailing down China’s emissions, and is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible?
This week, the frontiers of CRISPR, chewing raw goat for science, and using the eye’s own stem cells to fix it.
