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 from January, The Descent of Man, by Christoph Weber.
29 January: This week, Israeli skull piece could be from a human hybrid, revamping a classic physics experiment, and revolutionary archaeology.
Things lost and found in space, could cancer be 'bad luck', and our favourite "Why didn’t I think of that?" experiments.
22 January: This week, the restorative power of young blood, cosmic hard drives and improving the safety of genetically modified organisms.
15 January: This week, what hibernation could tell us about brain degeneration, a new journal all about plants, and where to go if climate change is claiming your home.
Bat ecologists are trying to find out, philosophers argue we may never understand, and one blind woman knows better than anyone. In this episode of Audiofile, Nature’s sound science series: what bats can teach us about the limits of human perception.
08 January: This week, what to expect in 2015, including dwarf planet hunts, the reopening of the LHC, a new antibiotic and an estimate of scientists’ coffee consumption.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from December, Missed Message, by Rachel Reddick.
18 December: This week, what was hot in 2014, what cosmologists would like for Christmas, and charades - reworked for audio.
11 December: This week, spider-inspired motion detectors, scrutinizing the endangered species list, and the recipe for cell reprogramming.
04 December: This week, highly cultured birds, shell art made by our ancestors, and will we ever make a quantum computer?
The Wellcome Collection has a new exhibition which brings together the pioneers of the study of sex. Geoff Marsh visits The Institute of Sexology for an interview with co-curator Honor Beddard.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from November, Ice and white roses, by Rebecca Birch
27 November: This week, energy-free air conditioning, the science of sex laid bare, and scientists who peer-review themselves.
This month's Backchat comes to you from outer space, where our reporters have been sucked into a wormhole to review new movie Interstellar, trying to wake up the comet-lander Philae, and considering a crowdfunded mission to the moon.
