Nature Podcast

This week, politician scientists, human genetic ‘knockouts’ and East Antarctica’s instability.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, easing the pressure on fisheries, protein structure surprises, and your reading list for 2017 so far.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mental health disorders touch rich and poor, young and old, in every country around the world. Hear three experts discuss the evidence for interventions, how to get help to the right people, and which problem, if solved, would help the most.   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, 'Green boughs will cover thee' by Sarah L Byrne.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, mapping sound in the brain, dwindling groundwater, and giving common iron uncommon properties.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, making plane fuel greener, yeast chromosomes synthesised from scratch, and seeking out hidden HIV.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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

This week, the earliest known life, Neanderthal self-medication, and data storage in a single atom.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell and Richard Hodson read you their favourite from February, 'Fermi's zookeepers' by David Gullen.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Winston Churchill’s thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014]  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen?    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Moonshots, frameworks, catapults – how best to name your science project? Plus, the implications for science of Trump’s first days in office, and the perils of trying to reproduce others’ work.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.