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:
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from February, ‘Duck, duck, duck' by Samantha Murray.
This week, more fast radio bursts spotted, how do you know where you are when you’re not moving, and listening in on a whale banquet.
A month of manipulation, as we look at a re-run of a famously manipulative psychology study, learn how to manipulate our own brains and minds, and nudge our societies towards better collective action.
This week, a special episode about the future. How can we future-proof our world, or fight our natural bias against planning for the future? And what does the science of today mean for the health of tomorrow?
This week, making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal.
Einstein's prediction was right: gravitational waves do exist. Scientists at the LIGO collaboration reported their discovery yesterday in Washington, DC. Reporters Adam Levy and Alexandra Witze take stock.
This week, the end of Moore’s law, religion and cooperation, and shareholders’ duty to manage climate risks.
This week, killing off old cells lengthens life, brain-tickling comedy, and new forests make good carbon sinks.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads ‘Beyond 550 astronomical units' by Mike Brotherton.
The putative Planet X, gravitational wave rumours and how to report them, and The Selfish Gene 40 years on.
This week, the computer that can play Go, a general ‘ageing’ factor, and the stolen library of John Dee.
This week, a brain sensor that melts away after use, a 10,000 year old murder mystery, and what happens when chickens go wild.
This week, our gut bugs’ love of fibre, squeezing quantum states, and studying boredom.
This week, science predictions for 2016, the effect of extreme weather on crops, and a new phase of hydrogen for the new year.
What can the world of Star Wars tell us about psychology? Travis Langley explains all in this Podcast Extra, using examples from his new book ‘Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind’.
