Nature Podcast

This week, defying quantum noise, looking at early signs of autism, and taking steps to assess exercise.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a new kind of quantum bit, the single-cell revolution, and exploring Antarctica’s past to understand sea level rise.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To combat global warming, the world needs to change where it gets its energy from. Three energy experts discuss the challenges of transitioning to low carbon energy, and what advances are needed to make the journey possible. This is the final episode in the Grand Challenges podcast series.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sometimes people can become trapped in the grey zone between conscious and unconscious states. Kerri Smith talks to neuroscientist Adrian Owen about communicating with patients in vegetative states.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our reporters and editors respond to the UK election. Plus, the tangled taxonomy of our species, and why physicists love to hate the standard model.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music.     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, early Homo sapiens in Morocco, mathematicians trying to stop gerrymandering, and going beyond the standard model.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Millions around the world are chronically hungry. Three experts on agriculture discuss how to help people grow enough food, in a world of evolving technology, global markets and a changing climate. This is episode 3 of 4 in the Grand Challenges podcast series.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, ‘sticky’ RNA causes disease, disorganised taxonomy, and 'intelligent crowd' peer review.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from May, 'Life, hacked' by Krystal Claxton.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month the team are chatting scientific data, scientific papers and... religion.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, E. coli with colour vision, tracing the Zika virus outbreak, and a roadmap for medical microbots.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, wonky vehicle emissions tests, error-prone bots help humans, and animals that lack a microbiome.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, fake antibodies scupper research, the diversity of cells in a tumour, and what happened before tectonic plates? SURVEY: https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/RmZVDI  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the secret life of the thalamus, how to talks about antibiotic resistance, and dangerous research. Survey link: https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/RmZVDI  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ageing is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we're ready for it - as individuals, or as a society. A geneticist, a psychiatrist and an economist pick apart our knowledge of the ageing process and the major challenges to be solved so we can live healthily and well.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Cold comforts' by Graham Robert Scott.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe’s first ‘baby picture’.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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