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:
21 November: This week, an ancient genome gives clues to Native American ancestry, how graphene researchers plan to spend a big EU grant, and teenagers doing novel research at school.
Nature Extra: Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s famous dystopian novel, tackling social engineering via eugenics and chemically-induced happiness. 50 years after Huxley’s death, what have we still to learn from his work?
14 November: This week, a way to treat infection when antibiotics fail, why large groups are best at improving social skills, and why scientists are mimicking the effects of traumatic brain injury.
07 November: The asteroid that shook a Russian town in February, the earliest indicator of autism in babies, and a neuroscientist reflects on his life with Parkinson's disease.
Nature Feature: In a jar in a Swedish museum lies a 300-year-old elephant foetus, classified as the type specimen of the Asian elephant. But is this a case of mistaken identity? Ewen Callaway reports on the new science solving an old mystery.
Nature Extra: In his latest book, Serving the Reich, Philip Ball explores how physics fared under the Nazis and the lessons that scientists of today could learn from the mistakes of the past.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Ananyo Bhattacharya reads you his favourite from this month, Deep Impressions, by John Gilbey.
31 October: This week, treating chronic HIV, time travel in fiction and doing physics under the Nazis.
24 October: This week, decoding brain activity to predict what you’re seeing, remembering or even dreaming, and the truth about the infamous tyrant Tyrannosaurus rex.
17 October: This week, the nervous system of an ancient arthropod, comparing cancer genomes, and can publishing in a top tier journal change your life?
PastCast - October 1993: In the early 1990s, a team of astrophysicists saw signs of life on a planet in our galaxy. Astronomy experts tell the story, and discuss how we can tell if there is life beyond the Earth.
10 October: This week, creating clouds to ease climate change, a new drug for multiple sclerosis, and was the Amazon once an orchard?
03 October: This week, how some of Mars' craters came from supervolcanoes, why scientific myths spread and stick around, and a particle accelerator on a chip.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from this month, The Rumination on What Isn’t, by Alex Shvartsman.
26 September: This week, a computer built from carbon nanotubes, what the Earth looked like before tectonic plates, and should we tweak genes to save species from extinction?
