Nature Podcast

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

This week, detecting intergalactic radio bursts, and seeing what’s in store for science in 2019.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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

The Nature Podcast’s 2018 end of year special, including songs, books, our annual quiz, and more!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New research suggests that a key protein involved in the neurodegenerative disease can be transferred between brains.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, ‘performing’ experiments, and making mirrored molecules.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, improving heart xenotransplants, and soil bacteria versus phages.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, measuring gravity’s strength with clocks, and worries over wind farms’ wakes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a solid-state plane engine with no moving parts, and ‘mosaicism’ in brain cells.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, evidence of a nearby exoplanet, and clinical trials in a social media world.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, building a cell from the bottom up, and a Breakthough Prize winner  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the role that mood forecasting technology may play in suicide prevention, and a 'crisis' in dark matter research.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, how science can help Canadian cannabis growers and a potted history of the Sun.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, what life is like when you've just won a Nobel prize, and how a vestigial organ helps ants get organised.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, targeting latent HIV, the breeding behaviour of bold birds, and an update on a near-Earth asteroid mission.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, an ultra-thin, wearable biosensor and a multi-shape, mechanical metamaterial.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the ethics of sucking carbon-dioxide out of the atmosphere and bee swarms under strain.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the oldest drawing ever found, and the hidden energy costs of data.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, keeping an eye on space junk, and how a physicist changed our understanding of life.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, an early mammal relative’s babies, and new attempts to pin down the strength of gravity.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.