Nature Podcast

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell read you their favourite from April, ‘Choices, in sequential order’ by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains’ energy demands.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a language map of the brain, listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake, and the Soviet internet that never was.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The fuss over editing human embryos dies down, the quantum expertise of Canada’s Prime Minister, and what it’s like to report for 24 hours straight.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the psychology of climate change, the 1.5 degree temperature target, and what to do when climate change ruins your research.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a computer game helps build a quantum computer, the brain’s built-in backup, and the history and science of hearing voices.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everyone knows that Watson and Crick published a seminal paper on the structure of DNA. But fewer know that two other papers on DNA were published in the same issue of Nature. Learn more in the first of a new podcast series: the Nature PastCast. Originally aired 18/04/2013.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, apps that claim to treat mental health issues, ritual human sacrifice, and supernova debris on Earth.  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, 'Adjenia’ by Natalia Theodoridou.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Antarctic-sized uncertainty, making gamers more polite, and a pocket gravity meter.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, toggling brain activity with radio waves, how to build stuff that lasts, and making thrillseekers into care-takers.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Misused statistics, the latest gossip on Google’s Go-playing AI, and watching mathematicians win prizes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, retrieving lost memories, nailing down China’s emissions, and is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the frontiers of CRISPR, chewing raw goat for science, and using the eye’s own stem cells to fix it.  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 February, ‘Duck, duck, duck' by Samantha Murray.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, more fast radio bursts spotted, how do you know where you are when you’re not moving, and listening in on a whale banquet.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A month of manipulation, as we look at a re-run of a famously manipulative psychology study, learn how to manipulate our own brains and minds, and nudge our societies towards better collective action.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a special episode about the future. How can we future-proof our world, or fight our natural bias against planning for the future? And what does the science of today mean for the health of tomorrow?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Einstein's prediction was right: gravitational waves do exist. Scientists at the LIGO collaboration reported their discovery yesterday in Washington, DC. Reporters Adam Levy and Alexandra Witze take stock.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.