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. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite story from May, Tempus omnia revelat, by Tian Li.
This week, the ethics of killer robots, laser weapons become a reality, and the subtleties of temperature.
Are the sounds of the past lost forever? In the 1960s, an American engineer proposed that sound could be recorded into clay pots and paintings as they were created. This episode explores the science behind resurrecting the sounds of the past.
The oldest stone tools yet found, making opiates from yeast and sugar, and the perks of sex… for beetles.
This week, the latest result from the Large Hadron Collider, a memoir from neurologist and adventurer Oliver Sacks, and India’s scientific landscape.
This week, brain-inspired computers, scientists soldiering on past retirement age, and the origins of complex cells deduced from deep-sea samples.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from April, Bread of life, by Beth Cato.
This week, a tiny bat-like dinosaur, a competitor for graphene, and the best new science books this spring.
Will we ever be able to talk to animals? In this episode, Geoff Marsh meets a variety of researchers and animals who persevere at the communication barrier in the name of science.
This week, a new treatment for Ebola, the making of the Tibetan plateau, and could bees be addicted to pesticides?
The periodic table’s fuzzy edges, the nuances of reporting on animal research, and Richard gets charged up about some overhyped coverage of a new battery.
This week, how oxytocin affects the brain, self- experimentation in science, and the wedding rings that went to Hubble.
This week, the Moon and her sister, the Sun and its personality, and the latest wonder material to hit the big-time.
This week, improving walking, pushing the boundary between quantum and classical, and the need for more social science on climate change.
This week, the role of black holes in growing galaxies, Dragon’s Den for scientists, and ice inside our bodies.
