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:
07 March: This week, being a woman in science, rubbing salt in the wound of autoimmunity, and measuring the distance to a nearby galaxy.
Nature Extra: Uta Frith and Athene Donald reflect on their long careers as women in science; how they managed to raise families, why quotas can be damaging to women, and the biases and stereotypes that persist.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Rutherford reads you his favourite from this month, A Gift of Pain, by V. G. Campen.
28 February: This week, the 'omes that really matter, video games that do you good, and deciding which animals to conserve in zoos.
21 February: This week, the debate over how to estimate fish stocks, how our brains stop us getting tongue-tied, and controlling robots using our minds.
14 February: This week, modelling the dramatic landscape on asteroid Vesta, the US stem cell company offering unapproved therapies, and the sweet smell of attraction.
07 February: This week, why the Earth is missing a bit of its crust, the hidden genetic factors that explain why traits are passed on and what we don’t know about ice. Plus, the best science from outside Nature.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from this month, To My Father, by David G. Blake.
31 January: This week, how cellular recycling could fight viruses, magnetic switches that can speed up smart phones, and some strange goings-on in our Solar System.
24 January: This week, the genetics of dog domestication, how understanding rituals could help solve global problems, why the outer layers of the sun are so hot and what happened to ice levels during the Earth's last warm period.
17 January: This week, archaeologists that rebuild the past, a successful scientific dynasty, and the genes that determine what house a mouse builds.
10 January: This week, memory molecules dethroned, treating numerical deficits with brain stimulation, and helping weather forecasting in the developing world. Plus, the biggest threats you've never heard of.
Nature Extra: When a large research project ends, what happens to the informal letters and emails that led up to the final paper? Archivist Jenny Shaw and science writer Georgina Ferry argue that we should be preserving these documents.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's monthly science fiction podcast. This month we read you five contemporary sci-fi poems from the UK, as featured in the new anthology Where Rockets Burn Through.
20 December: This week, wine with a hint of drought, the secrets of scaling in embryos, and the biggest science stories of 2012.
