Nature Podcast

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy reads you his favourite from July, 'Revision theory' by Blaize M. Kaye.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, how we time our breathing, working with indigenous peoples, and using yeast genetics to build better beer.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What’s it like having an endless supply of Brexit stories? Why do space missions always get so much attention? And why are rhinos being airlifted to Australia?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the perils of tech in health, tumour fighting bacteria, and the science of what sounds good.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a special issue on conflict. The psychological toll of war, how to count the dead, and predicting conflict in the 21st century.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, nature and landscape, the Hitomi satellite’s swan song, and reforming peer review.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. The Nature Podcast team read you their favourite from June, ‘The Memory Ward’ by Wendy Nikel.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Dolly the sheep’s legacy, the trials of funding interdisciplinary research, and an ‘IPCC’ for social science.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, transmissible cancer, organising the hadron menagerie, and the latest gravitational wave result and what physicists want to know next.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What could Brexit mean for EU research and researchers? How should reporters cover the US elections when nobody says anything about science? Plus a dramatic and dangerous Antarctic rescue.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, pimping proteins, adapting enzymes, and conserving coral reefs.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the late 1800s, Europe was gripped by 'gorilla fever'. Were these beasts man's closest relative in the animal kingdom? Getting a gorilla to Europe was a rare event, and in 1876 Nature heralds the arrival of a young specimen.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, researcher rehab, the hobbit’s ancestry, and Google’s quantum plans.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the genetics behind a textbook case of evolution, Earth’s core conundrum, and Pluto’s polygonal surface.  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, ‘Project Earth is leaving beta’ by J. W. Alden.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, how clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, and experimenting with history.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The endless quest to make fusion energy, virtual reality in the lab, and the biggest story of the month: a boat gets given a name.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the Zika virus and birth defects, colliding quasi-particles, and combatting sprawling networks of spam.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jonathan Shanklin was sifting through a backlog of data when he made the startling discovery of a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. In this podcast, he and others recall events in the mid-1980s and discuss how the 'ozone hole' became the poster child for environmentalism. Originally aired 17/05/2013.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.