Nature Podcast: 27 April 2017
This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe’s first ‘baby picture’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 26, 2017•31 min
Nature Podcast
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.
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Episodes
Backchat: April 2017
Science fans everywhere will take to the streets this weekend in the March for Science. Plus, biases in artificial intelligence and how scientific papers are getting harder to read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 21, 2017•24 min
Nature Podcast: 13 April 2017
This week, politician scientists, human genetic ‘knockouts’ and East Antarctica’s instability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 12, 2017•29 min
Nature Podcast: 6 April 2017
This week, easing the pressure on fisheries, protein structure surprises, and your reading list for 2017 so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 05, 2017•29 min
Grand Challenges: Mental Health
Mental health disorders touch rich and poor, young and old, in every country around the world. Hear three experts discuss the evidence for interventions, how to get help to the right people, and which problem, if solved, would help the most. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 03, 2017•28 min
Nature Extra: Futures March 2017
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Green boughs will cover thee' by Sarah L Byrne. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 31, 2017•7 min
Nature Podcast: 30 March 2017
This week, mapping sound in the brain, dwindling groundwater, and giving common iron uncommon properties. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 29, 2017•29 min
Backchat: March 2017
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 23, 2017•23 min
Nature Podcast: 23 March 2017
This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 22, 2017•28 min
Nature Podcast: 16 March 2017
This week, making plane fuel greener, yeast chromosomes synthesised from scratch, and seeking out hidden HIV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 15, 2017•28 min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - March 1918
As the First World War draws to an end, astronomer Arthur Eddington sets out on a challenging mission: to prove Einstein’s new theory of general relativity by measuring a total eclipse. The experiment became a defining example of how science should be done. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 10, 2017•16 min
Nature Podcast: 9 March 2017
This week, the earliest known life, Neanderthal self-medication, and data storage in a single atom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 09, 2017•31 min
Nature Podcast: 2 March 2017
This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 01, 2017•27 min
Backchat: February 2017
AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 01, 2017•22 min
Nature Extra: Futures February 2017
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell and Richard Hodson read you their favourite from February, 'Fermi's zookeepers' by David Gullen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 27, 2017•4 min
Nature Podcast: 23 February 2017
This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 22, 2017•28 min
Nature Podcast: 16 February 2017
This week, Winston Churchill’s thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 15, 2017•28 min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 10, 2017•12 min
Nature Podcast: 9 February 2017
This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 08, 2017•31 min
Nature Podcast: 2 February 2017
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.
Feb 01, 2017•29 min
Nature Extra: Futures January 2017
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.
Jan 31, 2017•6 min
Backchat: January 2017
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.
Jan 27, 2017•23 min
Nature Podcast: 26 January 2017
This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 25, 2017•31 min
Nature Podcast: 19 January 2017
This week, communication between viruses, reproducing cancer studies, and explaining ‘fairy circles’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 18, 2017•31 min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - January 1896
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.
Jan 13, 2017•16 min
Nature Podcast: 12 January 2017
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.
Jan 11, 2017•23 min
Nature Podcast: 22 December 2016
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.
Dec 21, 2016•39 min
Nature Podcast: 15 December 2016
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.
Dec 14, 2016•30 min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - December 1920
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.
Dec 09, 2016•13 min
Nature Podcast: 8 December 2016
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.
Dec 07, 2016•30 min
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