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:
13 December: This week, ways to cool hot chips, drugs that can target plenty of proteins and 100 years since the Piltdown Man hoax.
Nature Extra: 100 years ago this week, archaeologists reported finding a set of skull and jaw bones from a human ancestor in a gravel pit in Sussex. But it wasn't the 'missing link' they claimed. A new project is underway to work out who faked Piltdown Man.
06 December: This week, a baby star with a bright future, mending broken hearts, and radical reactor designs get a second chance.
29 November: This week, we digest the bread wheat genome, learn how fast humans are mutating, and dissect the Kyoto Protocol.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Rutherford reads his favourite from this month, Let Slip The Dogs, by William T. Vandemark.
22 November: This week, dry spells spell bad news for forests, brain cells whisper to their neighbours, and DNA gets a new alphabet.
15 November: This week, pig geneticists go the whole hog, the link between light and mood, and are women really born with all their eggs?
08 November: This week, tech-savvy early humans, swallowing worms to treat bowel disorders, and designing the perfect protein. Plus, the fate of glacial melt water in Peru.
01 November: This week, redheads at greater risk of cancer, a new bird family tree ruffles feathers, and sequencing a single cell.
Nature Extra: Kerri Smith talks to neurologist Oliver Sacks about his new book, Hallucinations.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Rutherford reads his favourite from this month, Temporal Ventures Robbed Me, by Scott C. Mikula.
25 October: This week, the pesticide peril facing bumblebees, the biological roots of political preference, and editing DNA to prevent mitochondrial diseases.
18 October: This week, the new planet next door, how biology sprung from chemistry on the early Earth, the evolution of teeth and jaws, and scientists’ movements around the globe.
11 October: This week, a very brainy fossil, a new clue to the Earth’s missing noble gas, and why city life is linked to psychosis. Plus, a round-up of the science Nobel Prizes.
04 October: This week, digitising the humanities, the Roman Empire’s methane footprint, and snake venom that kills pain as well as people.
