Nature Podcast

This week, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and translating brain patterns into speech.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 brought Watson and Crick to their conclusion, discuss how the papers were received at the time, and hear from one scientist who was actually there: co-author of one of the DNA papers, the late Raymond Gosling.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a new mouse model for heart failure and characterising energy fluctuations in empty space.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, why MDMA could make social interactions more rewarding, and how your skin keeps itself youthful.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, how humans are affecting Kilimanjaro's ecosystems, differences in pain based on biological sex, and refrigerating with crystals.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a plan to spray antibiotics onto orange trees, and is it time to retire statistical significance?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 2014.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, wetlands' ability to store carbon, mobile health, and the story of Mileva Marić.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the parenting strategies of a tropical cuckoo, increasing the number of topological materials, and growing cannabinoids in yeast.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, mapping every cell in a mouse embryo and the benefits of cataloguing all the viruses on Earth.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the links between atherosclerosis and sleep-deprivation, and how team size affects research outputs.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, virtual drug discovery, and a new addition to the CRISPR toolkit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the female chemists who helped build the periodic table, and harnessing the extra energy in Wi-Fi signals.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the effects of recessions on public health, and simulating supermassive black holes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, investigating introns’ roles, and reanimating a fossil.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.