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In the podcast this week, training misbehaving academics, the hobbit’s ancestry, creating a human genome from scratch and Google’s quantum computing plans.

This month's edition of GenePod, Genetics in Medicine's podcast, focuses on sorting out hype from reality in the use of CRISPR for human genome modification. Listen to an interview with Dr. Cecile Janssens about the limits of human genome engineering, even by powerful techniques such as CRISPR. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

Humans all over the world are born with malformations regardless of their particular ethnicity or ancestry, but the medical literature and the resources currently available depicting human malformation have been heavily slanted towards patients with western European ancestry. Maximilian Muenke and colleagues have now begun to remedy this deficiency in the medical literature with a global atlas of...

In the podcast this week, the genetics behind a textbook case of evolution, Earth's core conundrum, and Pluto's polygonal surface.

In the podcast this week, how clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats.

In the podcast this week, treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, a cheap Zika test, and experimenting with history.

In the podcast this week, the Zika virus and birth defects, colliding quasi-particles, and combatting sprawling networks of spam

In the podcast this week, the value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains’ energy demands.

In the podcast this week, a language map of the brain, listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake, and the Soviet internet that never was.

In the podcast this week, the 1.5 degree temperature target, what to do when climate change ruins your research and ‘dirty mice’.

Lately, scientists have begun to pay closer attention to the numbers of men and women who present at scientific meetings. Even in those fields where women are a majority, men dominate speaking roles; in 2011, a group of leaders in neuroscience fields decided to remedy this situation. By the 2015 annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, women made up 70% of the plenary spe...

"Impact of Stress on the Brain: Pathology, Treatment and Prevention," the 2016 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, focuses on advances in our understanding of the impact of stress on the brain: From pathology to circuits, treatment to prevention. Emerging data from genetics, epigenetics, neural circuit and intergenerational models, animal models, and neuroimaging all suggest that stress affe...

This week, a computer game helps build a quantum computer, the brain's built-in backup, and the history and science of hearing voices.

This week: toggling brain activity with radio waves, how to build stuff that lasts, and making thrillseekers into care-takers.

This week: retrieving lost memories, nailing down China’s emissions, and is Alzheimer’s transmissible?

This week: the frontiers of CRISPR, chewing raw goat for science, and using the eye's own stem cells to fix it.

This week: more fast radio bursts spotted, how do you know where you are when you’re not moving, and listening in on a whale banquet.

This week: a special episode about the future: future-proofing our world, fighting our natural bias towards the present, and changing the biology of future generations.

This week: making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal.

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.