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:
11 July: This week, the deadly effect of species population drops, how plants have become better at using water as carbon dioxide rises, and putting personality into synthesized voices.
04 July: This week, mining seedbanks for supercrops, how the two degree target isn’t enough to tackle climate change, and building new organs from scratch.
27 June: This week, the oldest genome ever sequenced, how elephants evolved from tree-eaters to grass-eaters, and why humans are so good at playing baseball.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Henry Gee reads you his favourite from this month, Mortar Flowers, by Jessica May Lin.
20 June: This week, why naked mole rats are cancer-proof, why Martian meteorites don't look like the Martian surface, and are quantum computers a reality?
Nature Extra: Writer Jo Marchant unravels the truth behind scientific studies of Tutankhamun's mummy.
PastCast - June 1876: In the late 1800s, Europe was gripped by 'gorilla fever'. Were these beasts man's closest relative in the animal kingdom? Getting a gorilla to Europe was a rare event, and in 1876 Nature heralds the arrival of a young specimen.
13 June: This week, what lives under the sea floor, the mega-prizes turning scientists into millionaires, and how fast do cheetahs actually run?
Nature Extra: Books about nature are newly popular in Britain. Writer Robert Macfarlane reads some extracts and explains the power and appeal of the prose.
06 June: This week, time cloaks, extreme species of atoms, and what’s really been happening to ice sheets?
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from this month, The Front Line, by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley.
Nature Extra: Many physicists are happy with the idea that time doesn't exist. Now a new book, Time Reborn by Lee Smolin, wants to put time back into physics.
30 May: This week, mosquitoes that can't smell humans, a new birdy dinosaur shakes the bird family tree, and what makes a planet habitable?
23 May: This week, the man who sent spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, our skin'’s fungal friends, and Neanderthal childhoods.
PastCast - May 1985: The discovery of a hole in the ozone layer was a shock. In this podcast, scientists recall the events in the mid-1980s and discuss how the 'ozone hole' became the poster child for environmentalism.
