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.

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Episodes

Nature Extra: Futures March 2016

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Adjenia’ by Natalia Theodoridou. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 2016•6 min

Nature Podcast: 31 March 2016

This week, Antarctic-sized uncertainty, making gamers more polite, and a pocket gravity meter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 30, 2016•31 min

Nature Podcast: 24 March 2016

This week, toggling brain activity with radio waves, how to build stuff that lasts, and making thrillseekers into care-takers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 23, 2016•31 min

Nature Extra: Backchat March 2016

Misused statistics, the latest gossip on Google’s Go-playing AI, and watching mathematicians win prizes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 21, 2016•25 min

Nature Podcast: 17 March 2016

This week, retrieving lost memories, nailing down China’s emissions, and is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 16, 2016•32 min

Nature Podcast: 10 March 2016

This week, the frontiers of CRISPR, chewing raw goat for science, and using the eye’s own stem cells to fix it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 09, 2016•28 min

Nature Extra: Futures February 2016

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from February, ‘Duck, duck, duck' by Samantha Murray. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 08, 2016•5 min

Nature Podcast: 3 March 2016

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 02, 2016•30 min

Nature Extra: Backchat February 2016

A month of manipulation, as we look at a re-run of a famously manipulative psychology study, learn how to manipulate our own brains and minds, and nudge our societies towards better collective action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 25, 2016•22 min

Nature Podcast: 25 February 2016

This week, a special episode about the future. How can we future-proof our world, or fight our natural bias against planning for the future? And what does the science of today mean for the health of tomorrow? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 24, 2016•25 min

Nature Podcast: 18 February 2016

This week, making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 17, 2016•27 min

Nature Extra: Gravitational waves

Einstein's prediction was right: gravitational waves do exist. Scientists at the LIGO collaboration reported their discovery yesterday in Washington, DC. Reporters Adam Levy and Alexandra Witze take stock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 12, 2016•7 min

Nature Podcast: 11 February 2016

This week, the end of Moore’s law, religion and cooperation, and shareholders’ duty to manage climate risks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 10, 2016•29 min

Nature Podcast: 4 February 2016

This week, killing off old cells lengthens life, brain-tickling comedy, and new forests make good carbon sinks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 03, 2016•30 min

Nature Extra: Futures January 2016

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads ‘Beyond 550 astronomical units' by Mike Brotherton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 01, 2016•6 min

Nature Extra: Backchat January 2016

The putative Planet X, gravitational wave rumours and how to report them, and The Selfish Gene 40 years on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 29, 2016•30 min

Nature Podcast: 28 January 2016

This week, the computer that can play Go, a general ‘ageing’ factor, and the stolen library of John Dee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 27, 2016•23 min

Nature Podcast: 21 January 2016

This week, a brain sensor that melts away after use, a 10,000 year old murder mystery, and what happens when chickens go wild. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 20, 2016•26 min

Nature Podcast: 14 January 2016

This week, our gut bugs’ love of fibre, squeezing quantum states, and studying boredom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 13, 2016•27 min

Nature Podcast: 7 January 2016

This week, science predictions for 2016, the effect of extreme weather on crops, and a new phase of hydrogen for the new year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 06, 2016•22 min

Podcast Extra – The Psychology of Star Wars

What can the world of Star Wars tell us about psychology? Travis Langley explains all in this Podcast Extra, using examples from his new book ‘Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 21, 2015•11 min

Nature Podcast: 17 December 2015

This week, in our final show of 2015 – we’re wrapping up the highlights of the year, catching up on the climate meeting in Paris, looking forward to psyching out the characters in Star Wars, busting some scientific myths, and playing an evolution-themed board game. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 17, 2015•48 min

Nature Podcast: 10 December 2015

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 09, 2015•26 min

Nature Podcast: 3 December 2015

This week, the origins of mysterious radio bursts, fixing the PhD system, and tracking down the universe’s missing matter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 02, 2015•27 min

Nature Extra: Futures November 2015

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from November, 'One slow step for man' by S R Algernon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 29, 2015•6 min

Nature Extra: Backchat November 2015

Einstein’s theory of general relativity turns 100 years old. Will there ever be another theory like it, or another scientist like Einstein? Plus, we discuss International Years as news pegs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 26, 2015•21 min

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