Nature Podcast

This week, the first flower, gene editing human embryos, and the antimatter quest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a brain-inspired computer, the brain's control of ageing, and Al Gore the climate communicator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, getting a handle on topology, and working out why the fastest animals are medium sized. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, defying quantum noise, looking at early signs of autism, and taking steps to assess exercise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, early Homo sapiens in Morocco, mathematicians trying to stop gerrymandering, and going beyond the standard model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, ‘sticky’ RNA causes disease, disorganised taxonomy, and 'intelligent crowd' peer review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from May, 'Life, hacked' by Krystal Claxton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month the team are chatting scientific data, scientific papers and... religion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, E. coli with colour vision, tracing the Zika virus outbreak, and a roadmap for medical microbots. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe’s first ‘baby picture’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, politician scientists, human genetic ‘knockouts’ and East Antarctica’s instability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

This week, mapping sound in the brain, dwindling groundwater, and giving common iron uncommon properties. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Winston Churchill’s thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, communication between viruses, reproducing cancer studies, and explaining ‘fairy circles’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Physics in the late nineteenth century was increasingly concerned with things that couldn't be seen. From these invisible realms shot x-rays, discovered by accident by the German scientist William Röntgen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, ridding New Zealand of rats, making choices in the grocery store, and what to expect in 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s our bumper end-of-year show, with a 2016 round-up, holiday reading picks, science carols, word games and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a spray that boosts plant growth and resilience, 3-million-year old hominin footprints, and the seahorse genome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early twentieth century physicists had become deeply entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Was the world at its smallest scales continuous, or built of discrete units? It all began with Max Planck. His Nobel Prize was the subject of a Nature news article in 1920. Originally aired 19/12/2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.