Nature Podcast

Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moonshots, frameworks, catapults – how best to name your science project? Plus, the implications for science of Trump’s first days in office, and the perils of trying to reproduce others’ work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, communication between viruses, reproducing cancer studies, and explaining ‘fairy circles’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Physics in the late nineteenth century was increasingly concerned with things that couldn't be seen. From these invisible realms shot x-rays, discovered by accident by the German scientist William Röntgen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, ridding New Zealand of rats, making choices in the grocery store, and what to expect in 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s our bumper end-of-year show, with a 2016 round-up, holiday reading picks, science carols, word games and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a spray that boosts plant growth and resilience, 3-million-year old hominin footprints, and the seahorse genome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early twentieth century physicists had become deeply entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Was the world at its smallest scales continuous, or built of discrete units? It all began with Max Planck. His Nobel Prize was the subject of a Nature news article in 1920. Originally aired 19/12/2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the benefits of randomness, correcting brain waves soothes Alzheimer’s, and the DNA of liberated slaves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy reads you his favourite from November, ’Melissa' by Troy Stieglitz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, CRISPR’s rival stumbles, Pluto’s icy heart, and is mitochondrial replacement ready for the clinic? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tracking whale shark DNA in seawater, the human computers behind early astronomy, building materials with a microscope, and a new synchrotron starts up in the Middle East. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Donald Trump’s impact on research and climate action, and how Nature should discuss politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, your brain on cannabis, testing CRISPR in a human, and what it might be like to live on Mars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first issue of Nature looked very different from today's magazine. It opened with poetry and was written for a general audience. We hear how Nature began, and how it became the iconic science journal it is today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, CERN for the brain, modelling the effects of a climate tax on food, a brain-spine interface helps paralysed monkeys walk, and what Trump's win might mean for science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the earliest humans to roam Australia, Werner Herzog’s new film about volcanoes, and are astronomers turning a blind eye to competing theories? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from October, ’The sixth circle' by J. W. Armstrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the challenges facing young scientists, pseudo-pseudo genes, and the history of HIV in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Europe’s Mars probe loses touch, UK government proposes research funding shake-up, and science’s most bothersome buzzwords. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, making egg cells in a dish, super-bright flares in nearby galaxies, trying to predict the election, and the scientists voting for Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1990s, a team of astrophysicists saw signs of life on a planet in our galaxy. Astronomy experts tell the story, and discuss how we can tell if there is life beyond the Earth. Originally aired 16/10/2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, refugee mental health, better neural nets, and changing attitudes to female genital cutting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.