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:
06 February: This week, superconductive graphene, sound tourism, and an Amazonian illusion.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Charlotte Stoddart reads you our favourite from January, Okami, by Grace Tang.
23 January: This week, a simple trick for making stem cells, one-poled magnets, and meeting a European hunter-gatherer through its genome.
PastCast - December 1920: Physics in the late nineteenth century was increasingly concerned with things that couldn't be seen. From these invisible realms shot x-rays, discovered by accident in 1896 by the German scientist William Röntgen.
23 January: This week, the rebirth of a fraudster, drivers of forest diversity, and why diamonds are a physicist’s best friend.
16 January: This week, why birds fly in formation, how old trees are efficient carbon eaters, and cracking down on personal genomics.
09 January: This week, storing solar power in your basement, the colour of long-extinct sea monsters, and preventing violent attacks on university campuses.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you our favourite from December, Sibyl, by Deborah Walker.
PastCast - December 1920: The Quantum Theory: In the early twentieth century physicists had become deeply entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Was the world at its smallest scales continuous, or built of discrete units?
19 December: In this week's bumper Christmas special, comedian Andy Zaltzman joins the Nature Podcast team to talk pickles, Neanderthals, and the biggest science stories of 2013.
12 December: This week, some species grow old gracefully, what lizard breath reveals about dinosaurs, and ways to avoid shortages of isotopes crucial in hospitals.
05 December: This week, DNA from an ancient human relative, the origins of the moon, and the dangers of following the herd when it comes to peer review.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Peter Cary reads you our favourite from November, Immeasurable, by H. E. Roulo.
28 November: This week, how the mind talks to the body, a new way to explore the structure of complex molecules, and the Collider exhibition at London's Science Museum.
PastCast - November 1869: The first issue of Nature looked very different from today's magazine. It opened with poetry and was written for a general audience. We hear how Nature began, and how it became the iconic science journal it is today.
