Nature Podcast

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

This week, the benefits of randomness, correcting brain waves soothes Alzheimer’s, and the DNA of liberated slaves.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy reads you his favourite from November, ’Melissa' by Troy Stieglitz.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, CRISPR’s rival stumbles, Pluto’s icy heart, and is mitochondrial replacement ready for the clinic?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tracking whale shark DNA in seawater, the human computers behind early astronomy, building materials with a microscope, and a new synchrotron starts up in the Middle East.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donald Trump’s impact on research and climate action, and how Nature should discuss politics.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, your brain on cannabis, testing CRISPR in a human, and what it might be like to live on Mars.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first issue of Nature looked very different from today's magazine. It opened with poetry and was written for a general audience. We hear how Nature began, and how it became the iconic science journal it is today.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, CERN for the brain, modelling the effects of a climate tax on food, a brain-spine interface helps paralysed monkeys walk, and what Trump's win might mean for science.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the earliest humans to roam Australia, Werner Herzog’s new film about volcanoes, and are astronomers turning a blind eye to competing theories?  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 October, ’The sixth circle' by J. W. Armstrong.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the challenges facing young scientists, pseudo-pseudo genes, and the history of HIV in the US.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Europe’s Mars probe loses touch, UK government proposes research funding shake-up, and science’s most bothersome buzzwords.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, making egg cells in a dish, super-bright flares in nearby galaxies, trying to predict the election, and the scientists voting for Trump.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the early 1990s, a team of astrophysicists saw signs of life on a planet in our galaxy. Astronomy experts tell the story, and discuss how we can tell if there is life beyond the Earth. Originally aired 16/10/2013.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, refugee mental health, better neural nets, and changing attitudes to female genital cutting.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Science gets glitzy in October each year as the Nobel Prizes are awarded. Find out who took home the prizes for Medicine or Physiology, Physics and Chemistry.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a limit to lifespan, AI's black box problem, and ageing stem cells.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The challenges of getting into science, getting a decent salary once you’re in, and getting funding through philanthropy.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.