Nature Podcast
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The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of the Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career
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The Nature Podcast highlights of 2024
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Behind the scenes of Nature News and Views in 2024
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The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2024
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Should offensive species names be changed? The organisms that honour dictators,...
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Dec 16, 202452:40pending
Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice
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Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal cha...
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Dec 9, 202428:18pending
Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period
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Dec 4, 202430:06pending
Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them act...
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Nov 29, 202413:13pending
Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance
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Nov 27, 202431:35pending
Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut
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Nov 20, 202429:19pending
Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing
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Nov 13, 202435:10pending
’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station
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Nov 8, 202426:23pending
Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different...
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Nov 6, 202427:36pending
REBROADCAST: Talking politics, talking science
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Nov 3, 202423:49pending
REBROADCAST: Politics of the life scientific
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Nov 2, 202424:42pending
REBROADCAST: A brief history of politics and science
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Nov 1, 202428:48pending
How to recover from the trauma of a climate disaster
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Oct 30, 202435:23pending
Audio long read: Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year spark...
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Oct 25, 202418:39pending
Massive lost mountain cities revealed by lasers
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Oct 23, 202429:55pending
Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator
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Oct 16, 202429:36pending
This AI powered 'tongue' can tell Coke and Pepsi apart
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Oct 9, 202438:46pending
Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time
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Oct 2, 202430:55pending
Audio long read: A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer
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Sep 27, 202420:19pending
Children with Down's syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint...
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Sep 25, 202421:58pending
Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories
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Sep 18, 202434:06pending
Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory
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Sep 11, 202441:41pending
The baseless stat that could be harming Indigenous conservation efforts
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Sep 6, 202414:29pending
Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer
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Sep 4, 202431:24pending
Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
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Aug 30, 202417:44pending
Covert racism in AI chatbots, precise Stone Age engineering, and the science of...
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Aug 28, 202420:40pending
Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains
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Aug 22, 202430:43pending
AI can't learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that
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Aug 21, 202419:50pending
The mystery of Stonehenge's central stone unearthed
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Aug 14, 202422:49pending
ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it
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Aug 9, 202436:50pending
Where weird plants thrive: aridity spurs diversity of traits
Nature Podcast
Aug 7, 202426:09pending
How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs
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Jul 31, 202432:37pending
Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life
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Jul 26, 202423:04pending
Rapid sepsis test identifies bacteria that spark life-threatening infection
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Jul 24, 202434:57pending
The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost
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Jul 17, 202428:21pending
Breastfeeding should break down mothers' bones — here's why it doesn't
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Jul 10, 202427:21pending
These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus
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Jul 3, 202436:31pending
Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026
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Jun 28, 202415:04pending
Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freigh...
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Jun 26, 202417:31pending
How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer
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Jun 19, 202431:42pending
Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity
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Jun 12, 202438:14pending
Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinfor...
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Jun 5, 202427:54pending
How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills it...
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May 29, 202423:19pending
How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists
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May 28, 202436:57pending
Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack ope...
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May 24, 202417:41pending
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