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This week: the end of Moore’s law, religion and cooperation, and shareholders’ duty to manage climate risks.

There has been a recent and notable increase in the non-medical use of new psychoactive substances (NPS), or "designer drugs." Unlike classic drugs of abuse, many NPS were initially developed for research purposes. In this podcast, Drs. Michael Baumann and Nora Volkow discuss the complexities of working with these substances and how, given their genesis, research with NPS could be considered "dual...

This week: killing off old cells lengthens life, brain-tickling comedy, and new forests make good carbon sinks.

This week: the computer that can play Go, a general ‘ageing’ factor, and the stolen library of John Dee.

This week: a brain sensor that melts away after use, a 10,000 year old murder mystery, and what happens when chickens go wild.

This week: Our gut bugs’ love of fibre, squeezing quantum states, and studying boredom.

It's been 25 years since the ACMG was founded. To mark the occasion, GenePod, the podcast of Genetics in Medicine, focuses on the past and the future of the journal. Podcast director Cynthia Graber interviews Dick King and Jim Evans, respectively the journal's founding and current Editors, regarding what's changed, what hasn't, and what we can look forward to over the next 25 years. www.nature.com...

Marijuana use for medical purposes is becoming increasingly common in the U.S., and doctors prescribe it for ills ranging from headaches to insomnia. And yet, there is little scientific data supporting its medical use. In this podcast, Drs. Margaret Haney and Eden Evins discuss the relationship between cannabis use and two psychiatric disorders: post-traumatic stress disorder and psychotic illness...

This week: Science predictions for 2016, the effect of extreme weather on crops, and a new phase of hydrogen for the new year.

This week: Our final show of 2015 – we’re wrapping up the highlights of the year, catching up on the climate meeting in Paris, psyching out the characters in Star Wars, busting some scientific myths, and playing an evolution-themed board game.

This month's GenePod discusses a new study which suggests the incidence of Sickle Cell disease in newborns in Africa and the Middle East may be substantially underestimated. Since we know that early intervention saves lives and reduces morbidity, accurate figures regarding the burden of disease are critical to setting public health priorities. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: The dwarf planet Ceres gets a close-up, using fetal tissue in science, and the wasting condition that worsens outcomes for cancer patients.

This week: The origins of mysterious radio bursts, fixing the PhD system, and tracking down the universe’s missing matter.

This week: What soils do for us, higher resolution ultrasound, Mars getting a ring, GM salmon, and mosquitoes with ‘gene drives’ that prevent malarial transmission.

This week: A nursery for big baby planets, meddling with taste perception, China’s mega water transfer plan, and the 100th anniversary of general relativity.

This week: Storms on Twitter over sexism in science, gene editing, porous liquids, and the long relationship between humans and bees.

This month's GenePod discusses the use of next generation sequencing in newborn screening. The findings of the researchers and their interpretation leave much room for additional research and conversation. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: Spontaneously jumping droplets, growing an economy without trashing the environment, and dealing with an onslaught of data as all our gadgets become internet-enabled.

This week: How cancers spread, the hallmarks of bipolar disorder in the brain, and making carbon dioxide useful.

This month GenePod explores clinical approaches to dealing with the difficult but inevitable problem of how to handle secondary (incidental) findings in genomic analysis. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: A dying solar system just like ours, the effect of temperature on the economy, and electricity-eating bacteria.

this week: C. elegans, the neuroscientists’ favourite worm, has had all its brain cells mapped. Then researchers found 2 more. D’oh! What do they do and how were they missed? Plus: early human migration; simulating a tiny piece of brain on a huge computer; and using vultures as mobile weather stations.

This week: an impenetrable mathematical proof, toggling REM sleep on and off, and the latest results from the Rosetta mission.

This week: the future of digital currency, a new lead for antibiotics, and 25 years of cataloguing the human genome.

Caffeine makes the adult world go round – but could it also be used as a therapy for premature babies? Several studies have suggested that in premature babies with breathing difficulties, caffeine could help stimulate them to breathe on their own and even have a positive effect on their brain development. But by contrast, a new study in Pediatric Research finds that a high dose of caffeine can hav...