Stay ConnectedThe 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 award-winning journalists.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Copyright: © Springer Nature Limited
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.
Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
