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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10 April: This week, a nasty parasite that eats cells alive, an ecological experiment floods the Colorado River delta, and the truth behind being an IPCC contributor.
3 April: This week, using the immune system to attack cancer, mapping the prenatal brain, and fifty years on from the discovery of an ancient human species. Plus, our favourite entries to Nature’s snappy sci-fi story competition, MicroFutures.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen.
27 March: This week, how gastric band surgery really works, a dwarf planet in the outer Solar System has a friend, and a physicist suggests a way to make quantum physics less puzzling.
20 March: This week, how a mother’s vitamin A deficiency impacts her baby’s immunity, why scientists are taking acting classes, a new brain implant that listens as well as talks to the brain, and what happened at the beginning of the Universe.
PastCast - March 1918: 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.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Colin Sullivan reads you his favourite from February, Coffee in end times, by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Alex Shvartsman.
13 March: This week, how a thirteenth century cosmologist predicted the Big Bang, the ocean of water hidden deep in the Earth’s mantle, and what the wolves of Yellowstone National Park reveal about predator effects on ecosystems.
06 March: This week, converting noisy radio signals into easy-to-measure lasers, making livestock sustainable, and flies that sing tailored courtship songs to each other.
27 February: This week, UV rays cause cancer to spread as well as form, using crystallography to probe the deep Earth, and Einstein’s lost manuscript.
PastCast - February 1925: Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life. It was the face and brain cast of an extinct primate - perhaps an early ape-like relative of humans. But the paleontology community shunned the find.
20 February: This week, Nicaragua's plans for a 'mega canal', honeybee diseases in bumblebees and invasive Asian carp in the Great Lakes.
In his new book Neanderthal Man, geneticist Svante Pääbo reflects on his efforts to sequence the DNA of long-dead humans, in conversation with Ewen Callaway.
13 February: This week, colour evolution in the natural world, and we take steps towards fusion energy and atomtronics.
The Perfect Theory: Einstein's general theory of relativity explains the relationships between gravity, space and time. It works a treat, but it hasn't always been fashionable. A new 'biography' delves into the theory’s past contributions and its future.
