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:
12 July: This week, smart buildings that regulate their own temperature, insights from wide-scale genome sampling, and why it’s possible to run over custard. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature.
Nature Extra: Last week, Nature won a long-running libel case brought against it by physicist Mohamed El Naschie. In this Podcast Extra, we discuss the implications of the victory, and the profound need for reform of England’s archaic libel laws.
05 July: This week, 3D printers, an intergalactic thread of dark matter, and scanning an unborn baby’s genome. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads his favourite from this month, 21st-Century Girl, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
28 June: This week, the Australopithecus diet, saving the Baltic Sea and five remaining puzzles about bird flu. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature.
Nature Extra: Kerri Smith speaks to researchers at the Nordic Food Lab to chew over the science of taste.
21 June: This week, some very early dairy farming, a gigapixel camera, a quiet place for theoretical physicists and a crack at the Turing test.
14 June: This week, reading the minds of the brain dead, sequencing the last great ape, and fifty years since the book that sparked the green movement.
07 June: This week, eighth century cosmic rays preserved in trees, calculating the real cost of your cappuccino, and is our growing population a ticking time bomb?
31 May: This week, painting a molecular canvas, why birds look like dinosaurs, and saving the Sumatran rhino.
Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads his favourite from this month, The Appropriate Response, by Jeff Samson.
24 May: This week, strict diets and stem cells, how the goliaths of the ocean trawl for food, and how songbirds learn their tune.
Nature Extra: In 1761 and 1769, astronomers across the world watched Venus pass in front of the sun. Working together, they hoped to calculate the size of the solar system. Andrea Wulf recounts a thrilling tale of Enlightenment science and discovery.
17 May: This week, the transits of Venus, paralysed patients move a robotic arm with their thoughts, and 'superflares'. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature.
