This week, how gut microbes might be affecting drugs, and a new theory on the beginning of plate tectonics. In this episode: 00:45 Microbes metabolising drugs Researchers are investigating whether the gut microbiota can alter the activity of medicinal drugs. Research article: Zimmermann et al. 06:40 Research Highlights Elephants counting with smell, and audio activity monitoring. Research Highlight: Elephants have a nose for portion size Research Highlight: Deep learning monitors human ac...
Jun 05, 2019•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our PastCast series, highlighting key moments in the history of science. The discovery of the ozone hole in the mid-1980s was a shock. Scientists suspected that man-made gases called CFCs were damaging the ozone layer, but they didn’t expect to see such a dramatic decline. Nor did they expect the discovery to be made by a small group of British scientists in Antarctica. In this podcast, w...
May 31, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, looking back at cold fusion, a ranking of gender balance in universities, and measuring the impact of wildfires. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 30, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, how climate change has affected plankton, the future of European science, and evidence of an ancient fungus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 22, 2019•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, rewriting the script of life, and a trip to the far side of the Moon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 15, 2019•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, body mass increases around the world, and river connections in decline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 08, 2019•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and translating brain patterns into speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 01, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our PastCast series, highlighting key moments in the history of science. Over 60 years ago , James Watson and Francis Crick published their famous paper proposing a structure for DNA. Everyone knows that story – but fewer people know that there were actually three papers about DNA in that issue of Nature . In this podcast, first broadcast in April 2013, we uncover the evidence that brough...
Apr 26, 2019•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we’ve got an extended News Chat between presenter Benjamin Thompson and Nature 's European Bureau Chief Nisha Gaind. They discuss a new way to identify tiny earthquakes, new insights into the heritability of height, and how political tensions between the US and China are affecting scientists and research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 25, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, restoring function in dead pig brains, spring science books, and the structure of lightning. If you have any questions about the partly-revived brains study, then the reporters at Nature are keen to answer them. You can submit them at the bottom of the article, here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 17, 2019•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, researchers released the first image of a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy. In this special News Chat, Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi, who was at a press conference in Brussels where the image was announced, tells Benjamin Thompson about the image and what scientists are saying about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 11, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, a new mouse model for heart failure and characterising energy fluctuations in empty space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 10, 2019•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, why MDMA could make social interactions more rewarding, and how your skin keeps itself youthful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 03, 2019•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this month’s roundtable, our reporters discuss calls to pause heritable genome-editing research, and how science journalism has changed in the past 20 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 29, 2019•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, how humans are affecting Kilimanjaro's ecosystems, differences in pain based on biological sex, and refrigerating with crystals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 27, 2019•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, a plan to spray antibiotics onto orange trees, and is it time to retire statistical significance? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our Pastcast series, bringing to life key moments in the history of science. 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. This episode was first broadcast in March 20...
Mar 15, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Instead of a regular edition of the Nature Podcast , this week we’ve got an extended News Chat between Benjamin Thompson and Amy Maxmen. They discuss the ongoing Ebola outbreak in DRC, an injectable treatment for HIV, and how the proposed US 2020 budget could affect science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 14, 2019•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, wetlands' ability to store carbon, mobile health, and the story of Mileva Marić. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 06, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, the parenting strategies of a tropical cuckoo, increasing the number of topological materials, and growing cannabinoids in yeast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 27, 2019•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, mapping every cell in a mouse embryo and the benefits of cataloguing all the viruses on Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 20, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, the links between atherosclerosis and sleep-deprivation, and how team size affects research outputs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 13, 2019•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, virtual drug discovery, and a new addition to the CRISPR toolkit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 06, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, the female chemists who helped build the periodic table, and harnessing the extra energy in Wi-Fi signals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 30, 2019•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, the effects of recessions on public health, and simulating supermassive black holes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 23, 2019•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, investigating introns’ roles, and reanimating a fossil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 16, 2019•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Sireau’s sons have a rare genetic disease called alkaptonuria, which can lead to body tissues becoming brittle, causing life long health issues. In this Podcast Extra, Geoff Marsh speaks to Nick and to the physician Dr Lakshminarayan Ranganath about their search for a treatment for alkaptonuria. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 11, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, detecting intergalactic radio bursts, and seeing what’s in store for science in 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 09, 2019•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special round-up episode of the Nature Podcast, a few of our regular reporters choose their favourite podcast piece of 2018, and explain why they enjoyed making it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 26, 2018•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Nature Podcast’s 2018 end of year special, including songs, books, our annual quiz, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 19, 2018•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
