Nature Podcast
Nature Podcast - the world's best science and medicine in your earbuds
Springer Nature Limited · [email protected]
Show overview
Nature Podcast has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 898 episodes. That works out to roughly 360 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 19 min and 29 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 46 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 103 episodes published. Published by [email protected].
From the publisher
The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of the Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest Episodes
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Major Ebola outbreak is escalating: what happens next
AI ‘scientists’ promise to accelerate research — how do they work?
Briefing Chat: Hantavirus — what this outbreak reveals about the disease
Red-light therapy is all the rage — does it work?
Audio long read: The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
Briefing Chat: Can't focus? It's not your attention span, it's your notifications
Anaesthetized brains can still process podcasts
Briefing Chat: Stressed mitochondria spawn new 'organelles' in cells
Immunity gets a boost from a surprising place — breakfast
Inside the evidence revolution — how decision-making became data driven
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players
Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of 'off label' treatments
Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by
Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence
In this podcast we'll talk about NASA's Artemis II launch, which has ushered in a new era of lunar exploration.Nature: Lift off! Artemis II mission sends humans to the Moon — opening a new era of explorationNature: Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll doNature: Humanity is heading back to the Moon — why aren’t more scientists thrilled?Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
In this episode:00:46 Collecting contrails at 30,000 feetResearch Article: Voigt et al.11:23 Research HighlightsNature: Sunken Soviet nuclear submarine’s radioactive releaseNature: History of ‘forever’ chemicals is written in Antarctic snow13:34 Fakery in scienceApril Fakes DaySubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.