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| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature: 02 February 2012 | Humungous supervolcanoes, using elephants to control Australia's wildfires, and regulating sugar consumption like alcohol and tobacco. | Nature | 00:27:28 |
| Nature: 26 January 2012 | Shipwreck hunting off the coast of Crete, insights into Alzheimer's from reprogrammed cells and a research tool called 'primitive facebook'. | Nature | 00:29:10 |
| Nature: 19 January 2012 | The changing face of the Amazon, the genetics of staying sharp as you age and crowd-sourced funding. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:20 |
| Nature: 12 January 2012 | Whale hunting quota, new exercise hormone and how complexity evolves. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:26:42 |
| Nature: 05 January 2012 | This week, the five hardest experiments and a look forward to science in 2012. | Nature | 00:17:16 |
| Nature: 22 December 2011 | Two Earth-like planets discovered, a gut reaction to traditional Asian medicine, and the people who have shaped science in 2011. | Nature | 00:23:11 |
| Nature: 15 December 2011 | The elusive Higgs, a nearby supernova goes bang, a worrying ruling for stem cell research in Europe and why the Mediterranean went through a dry patch. | Nature | 00:25:37 |
| Nature: 08 Dec 2011 | Record-busting black holes, out-of-body illusions and Asia's space race. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:28 |
| Nature: 01 Dec 2011 | Antarctic explorer Scott the scientist, overlooked parts of the cell and the Earth's early atmosphere. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:26:06 |
| Nature Extra: Antarctic ambitions | A hundred years ago this month, Norwegian explorers reached the South Pole for the first time. Captain Scott's team weren't far behind - but they were doing some serious science too, says historian Edward Larson. | Nature | 00:11:50 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Editor Henry Gee reads this week's story, Gifts of the Magi by Anatoly Belilovsky. | Nature | 00:06:03 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Jillian Adie reads this week's story, "What isn't Remembered", by Hiromi Goto. | Nature | 00:06:36 |
| Nature: 24 Nov 2011 | Egyptian archaeology after the Arab Spring, how the immune system helps keep us warm, and the mystery elements in the Earth's innards. | Nature | 00:24:16 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Editor Henry Gee reads this week's story, "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Panda," by Jacey Bedford. | Nature | 00:06:32 |
| Nature: 17 Nov 2011 | Excruciating new research on pain sensation, creating something out of nothing and climate targets post-Kyoto Protocol. | Nature | 00:26:58 |
| Nature: 10 Nov 2011 | A spin in a 'nanomobile', the origins of sociality, who really discovered that the universe is expanding and a 'huge' earthquake risk in the US. | Nature | 00:28:10 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Editor Henry Gee reads this week's story, "Ovoids" by Deborah Walker. | Nature | 00:05:53 |
| Nature: 03 Nov 2011 | A 'sabre-toothed squirrel', the advantages of autism, and man-made cyclones. Plus, the best of the rest of this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:26:05 |
| Nature: 27 October 2011 | How brains change across the lifespan, the biggest threat from climate change and Pluto's new best friend. | Nature | 00:25:36 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Editor Henry Gee reads this week's story, An Easy Sale by Biren Shah. | Nature | 00:06:48 |
| Nature Extra: Peace in our time | Are humans getting less violent? In his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature", psychologist Steven Pinker argues that it could be because we're getting smarter. | Nature | 00:08:36 |
| Nature: 20 October 2011 | String theorists find their practical side, a molecular manipulation that boosts good fat and reduces bad fat, and are we getting less violent? | Nature | 00:25:18 |
| Nature: 13 October 2011 | The secrets of the Black Death bacterium, local knowledge helps scientists study the Arctic, and the genome of the naked mole rat - ugly as sin, but long-lived and cancer-resistant. | Nature | 00:27:24 |
| Nature Extra: Futures | Robots, enhanced humans, and comedy aliens - some of the characters that have populated Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Editor Henry Gee talks about how it all started and what it tells us about science. | Nature | 00:13:11 |
| Nature: 6 October 2011 | The first family to have their genomes fully sequenced, how human egg cells have been used to make stem cells, and why we should be recycling phosphorus. | Nature | 00:25:27 |
| Nature: 29 September 2011 | How to measure happiness, how food puts flies in the mood for love, and how to improve clinical trials and get more drugs to market. Plus, do scientists really think the speed of light has been broken? | Nature | 00:24:42 |
| Nature Extra: Robot wars | New technologies developed by the military are throwing up new ethical problems, says defence researcher Peter Singer. He talks to reporter Natasha Gilbert. | Nature | 00:10:35 |
| Nature: 22 September 2011 | The forecast for life-extending proteins, a very slippery surface and a secret team of scientists advising the US government. | Nature | 00:27:43 |
| Nature: 15 September 2011 | Seismologists on trial, the evolution of cockiness and sequencing the lab mouse genome. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:24:48 |
| Nature: 08 September 2011 | The beginning of plate tectonics, one hundred years of superconductivity and the link between bird wings and dinosaur forelimbs. | Nature | 00:29:20 |
| Nature: 01 September 2011 | Free will, an ancient hominin tool kit and doing overtime in an open-all-hours lab. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:24 |
| Nature: 25 August 2011 | How higher temperatures make tempers run high, the downside of antibiotics, and the link between cosmic rays and climate. | Nature | 00:27:39 |
| Nature: 18 August 2011 | The ethics of memory manipulation, the spread of immunity in the body and explaining the coffee-ring effect. | Nature | 00:27:23 |
| Nature: 11 August 2011 | Hydrothermal vents, backwards chemistry and sham brain surgery. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:23 |
| Nature: 4 August 2011 | The landscapes enjoyed by our ancestors, a possible new branch on the tree of life, and a crash course on Moon mountains. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:26:01 |
| Nature: 28 July 2011 | Rescuing old monkeys from memory loss, a new fossil ruffles feathers in the bird family tree, and why we're hanging up on the aliens. | Nature | 00:28:38 |
| Nature: 21 July 2011 | Catching cheating cyclists, making tiny brains from DNA and sharing in chimps and children. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:27:35 |
| Nature: 14 July 2011 | How old mathematical theories apply to the modern world, a gentle way to mend a broken heart and how tiny ancestors gave rise to the biggest creatures ever to have walked the Earth. | Nature | 00:28:17 |
| Nature: 07 July 2011 | Saturn's storm, the link between alcohol and DNA damage, and the vitamin D debate. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:09 |
| Nature: 30 June 2011 | This week, we tackle a plant plague and talk about higher education as part of our Africa special. Plus, a new method that could make gene therapy better. | Nature | 00:27:51 |
| Nature: 23 June 2011 | Cluster-flocking pigeons, biofuels of the future and the impact on mental health of living in the city. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:29:37 |
| Nature: 16 June 2011 | Results from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, the cause of the March earthquake in Japan and a 'rap guide' to evolution. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:19 |
| Nature: 09 June 2011 | This week, cyber warfare, species xenophobia and the chemistry of water. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:18 |
| Nature: 02 June 2011 | Worms from hell, early human lifestyles and quantum computing. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:29:31 |
| Nature: 26 May 2011 | Giant shrimp, social resistance to vaccines, measuring the roundness of the electron and a science fiction exhibition. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:25:47 |
| Nature: 19 May 2011 | Wandering planets, legless lizards and the growing pains of artificially created stem cells. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:27 |
| Nature: 12 May 2011 | The earliest social mammals, a new type of fungus and how scientists can best showcase themselves online. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:05 |
| Nature: 5 May 2011 | Companies race into space, treehopper insects help explain evolutionary novelty, and the workings of the hummingbird's tongue. | Nature | 00:22:07 |
| Nature: 28 April 2011 | Extracting DNA from Egyptian mummies, a glimpse of antihelium, assessing the risks of nuclear sites worldwide, and a royal diet fit for a queen. | Nature | 00:20:46 |
| Nature: 21 April 2011 | A self-healing material, a mysterious source of serotonin and does the PhD need a revamp? Plus, the rest of the best from Nature. | Nature | 00:26:52 |
| Nature: 14 April 2011 | Evolution in the lab, challenging Chomsky on language and one year on after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:30:43 |
| Nature Extra: David Eagleman | Neuroscientist, writer and 'possibilian' David Eagleman popped into the podcast studio to tell Charlotte Stoddart about his new book on the secret, subconscious, lives of the brain. | Nature | 00:21:59 |
| Nature Extra: Fukushima | Japan is struggling with a nuclear emergency following the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. In this podcast, reporter Geoff Brumfiel brings us up-to-date on the situation at the Fukushima power plant. | Nature | 00:12:07 |
| Nature: 07 April 2011 | This week, growing retinas in the lab, 50 years since the first human in space - and other anniversaries. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:24:07 |
| Nature: 31 March 2011 | This week, 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, star gazing with Kepler and a chemical dye that extends life span. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:26:50 |
| Nature: 24 March 2011 | Drilling into the Earth's mantle, making mouse sperm in the lab and early warning signals for cancer. | Nature | 00:31:31 |
| Nature Extra: Parallel worlds | What if our universe is one of many? In his new book, "Hidden Reality," Brian Greene explores the idea of 'multiverses'. Nature's Geoff Brumfiel sat down in one of those universes to talk to him. | Nature | 00:18:30 |
| Nature: 17 March 2011 | How sperm find the egg, controversial chronic fatigue research and physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:29:04 |
| Nature: 10 March 2011 | Shape-shifting proteins, scaling up quantum mechanics and how the human penis lost its spines. Plus, the best of the rest of this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:25 |
| Nature: 03 March 2011 | The safety of iPS cells, a long-term health study turns 65 and "are we heading for a sixth mass extinction?" | Nature | 00:31:50 |
| Nature: 24 February 2011 | A bizarre fossil nicknamed the 'walking cactus', why women suffer post traumatic stress more than men and a candid interview with a convicted animal rights activist. | Nature | 00:26:11 |
| Nature: 17 February 2011 | Pretending to go to Mars, early human evolution and climate change impacts on extreme weather. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:28:31 |
| Nature: 10 February 2011 | Crossing nanowires, embryonic stem cells in court and problematic flatworms. Plus, the best of the rest form Nature. | Nature | 00:30:20 |
| Nature: 3 February 2011 | A sextet of exoplanets, mining metals in the deep sea, the answer to a methane puzzle, and our weekly science news round-up. | Nature | 00:25:45 |
| Nature: 27 January 2011 | 27 January: This week, orang-utan genomes, a social dominance gene and a revised biological clock. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:04 |
| Nature: 20 January 2011 | This week: what bankers can learn from biology, the peer reviewing blogosphere and miniature farmers. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:28:57 |
| Nature: 13 January 2011 | This week, the flip side of flipper banding, mineralised tissues and the future of Yellowstone National Park. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | Nature | 00:27:17 |
| Nature: 6 January 2011 | Our predictions for science in 2011, and The chemical bond: fact or fiction? | Nature | 00:12:13 |
| Nature: 23 December 2010 | DNA from an ancient human-like species, gene families traced back billions of years, and the Nature Podcast end of year quiz. | Nature | 00:28:07 |
| Nature: 16 December 2010 | Prizzly bears are on the loose, the origins of Saturn's icy rings and a rare lung condition caused by an asbestos-like mineral. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:27:09 |
| Nature: 09 December 2010 | This week; a fresh take on a historical theory of how embryos develop, what the Earth's outer core is made of, and a taste of lab-reared meat. | Nature | 00:25:52 |
| Nature: 02 December 2010 | Reversing the ageing process, an underwater electricity grid for Europe and 2010's most important protein structures. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:30:16 |
| Nature: 25 November 2010 | The world's first computer, how cells export sugars and how to measure dark energy. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:27:36 |
| Nature: 18 November 2010 | What triggered the Icelandic volcano eruption, a molecule of anti-hydrogen and the end of cheap coal. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:25:29 |
| Nature: 11 November 2010 | 11 November: Promising new drug for Parkinson's disease, blood cells from human skin cells and the current forecast for schizophrenia treatment. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:32:54 |
| Nature: 04 November 2010 | 04 November: Almost real-time holograms, a new target for stroke therapy and unifying gravity with the other forces. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:26:52 |
| Nature: 28 October 2010 | The evolution of sex determination, controlling images with your mind and the first results from the 1000 Genomes Project. | Nature | 00:27:18 |
| Nature: 21 October 2010 | Fat fathers give their daughters health problems, the oldest galaxy ever spotted and science in the city. Plus the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:28:23 |
| Nature Extra: Genetics Futures 5 | In the last in our series on frontiers in genetics and genomics, genome sequencer extraordinaire George Church joins us to speculate about what insights new technologies might bring. In partnership with Nature Reviews Genetics. | Nature | 00:06:18 |
| Nature: 14 October 2010 | The rise and fall of societies, the US midterm elections, an asteroid that thinks it's a comet and the benefits of sex. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:27:47 |
| Nature Extra: Genetics Futures 4 | In the fourth in our special series on frontiers in genetics and genomics, Leroy Hood argues that it's not enough to look at a single gene or protein any more. We take a look at the genome from a systems perspective. | Nature | 00:06:08 |
| Nature: 7 October 2010 | This week, a circuit diagram of the retina, the sun's effect on climate, and DIY biology. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:28:41 |
| Nature: 30 September 2010 | This week, the lost letters of Crick, global water security and the spread of scientific sabotage. Plus, our top pick from the rest of Nature. | Nature | 00:27:36 |
| Nature: 23 September 2010 | This week, the origins of malaria, a nuclear power debate and gene-silencing in plants. Plus, our top pick from the rest of Nature. | Nature | 00:26:23 |
| Nature Extra: Genetics Futures 1 | It is 10 years since the first draft of the human genome was published. We asked five leaders in genetics and genomics how far we've come and what the future holds for their fields. How much can a sequence alone tell us about how the genome works? | Nature | 00:07:08 |
| Nature: 16 September 2010 | A gene therapy success story, a road through the Serengeti, and a trip to the Singularity University. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:29:32 |
| Nature: 9 September 2010 | 9 September: This week, the hunchback of Las Hoyas, automated taxonomy systems and a new, effective melanoma drug. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:28:11 |
| Nature: 2 September 2010 | Ancient cratons, climate change in China and guilt-free seafood. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:25:09 |
| Nature Extra: William James | This week marks the 100th anniversary of the death of William James, pioneering American philosopher and founding father of psychology. Join Kerri Smith as she talks to his biographer Linda Simon about James' life and work. | Nature | 00:11:45 |
| Nature: 26 August 2010 | Dogs as a pet project for geneticists, kin selection theory takes a knock, and hurricane Katrina five years on. | Nature | 00:26:12 |
| Nature: 19 August 2010 | Anxious monkeys, evidence of some very old butchery and just how much should we be regulating genetic testing? Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | Nature | 00:28:52 |
| Nature: 29 July 2010 | This week, how seismologists explain mid-plate earthquakes, 400 years of planetary science, a taster of the food and agriculture special, and the best of the rest in Nature. | Nature | 00:30:38 |
| Nature: 22 July 2010 | How climate change is making marmots fatter and fitter, imagining a world without mosquitoes, and the link between obesity and diabetes. | Nature | 00:29:29 |
| Nature: 15 July 2010 | A treasure map for diamonds, crime and punishment, and the community of viruses found in poo. Plus, our weekly news round up. | Nature | 00:29:18 |
| Nature: 8 July 2010 | How human activity is increasing dust emissions, curbing cocaine addiction, early human settlers in Europe, and just how small is a proton? Plus, the best of the rest in Nature. | Nature | 00:30:52 |
| Nature: 1 July 2010 | 1 July: Face to face with a true leviathan, the earliest multicellular lifeforms, the benefits of going organic and blowing atoms apart from the inside with a giant x-ray laser. | Nature | 00:28:51 |
| Nature: 24 June 2010 | The basis of a strange condition called blindsight, a function for pseudogenes, and storing quantum information encoded in light. Plus, the Nature Podcast Salary Survey Game Show. | Nature | 00:26:59 |
| Nature Extra: Rebecca Skloot | In 1951, Henrietta Lacks died of cancer. Cells from her cancer were the first human cells to be grown in a lab, and became one of the most important tools in biology. Kerri Smith interviews Rebecca Skloot, author of a new book about Henrietta. | Nature | 00:24:24 |
| Nature: 17 June 2010 | The boundaries of humanity, tracking objects in the furthest reaches of the solar system, and an immortal contributor to science. | Nature | 00:25:25 |
| Nature: 10 June 2010 | Jewish genomics, super speedy lasers, and climate change disbelievers. Plus, what's hot elsewhere in Nature. | Nature | 00:28:02 |
| Nature: 3 June 2010 | Mentoring by numbers, quantum physics gets frustrated, a new twist on the Big Bang theory and the best of the rest in Nature. | Nature | 00:27:21 |
| Nature: 27 May 2010 | A new species of island-dwelling dinosaur, canyons on Mars, busting blood clots and deception hunting at the airport. | Nature | 00:33:31 |
| Nature: 20 May 2010 | A new way to mass produce semiconductors, putting brain scanning on firm ground, and the effect of global warming on malaria. | Nature | 00:26:52 |
| Nature: 13 May 2010 | Studying natural selection in Caribbean lizards, testing the theory of common ancestry, a nanoscale factory strikes gold, and what made Dorothy Hodgkin such a great scientist. | Nature | 00:33:51 |
| Nature: 6 May 2010 | How scientists have cracked the splicing code, a muscle-mimicking material, a look back at the biggest earthquake ever recorded, and the best of the rest in Nature. | Nature | 00:29:15 |
| Nature: 29 April 2010 | How the similarities of identical twins go beyond their appearance, new dinosaur fossils shed light on the evolution of feathers, an asteroid study reveals some frosty findings, and what's hot elsewhere in Nature. | Nature | 00:28:01 |
| Nature: 22 April 2010 | Brain training put to the test, how the Red Sea could help refill the Dead Sea, a look into an exoplanet's atmosphere reveals unexpected results, and how loopholes in the Copenhagen Accord could mean we overshoot our targets on global warming. | Nature | 00:27:20 |
| Nature: 15 April 2010 | The 'missing' genes behind complex traits, why some cancer cells spread around the body, network theory explains a catastrophic power failure in Italy, and what's hot elsewhere in Nature. | Nature | 00:29:28 |
| Nature: 1 April 2010 | A new answer to an old paradox about the young Earth, Over 20,000 human genes caught on camera, and A conference on agricultural research for development. | Nature | 00:30:32 |
| Nature Extra: Paul Davies | Are we alone in the universe? Nature's Adam Rutherford puts this question to astrophysicist Paul Davies, a key player at SETI. In his latest book, "The Eerie Silence," Paul suggests a shift in approach; instead of searching for a 'hello humans' message from space, we should look for 'alien' life on our own planet. | Nature | 00:23:50 |
| Nature Insight: Ageing | Ageing - we're all doing it. The world's population is getting older, and people are living longer in better states of health. In this show we explore the biology of ageing, its consequences for society, and what you can do to ensure a long and healthy life. | Nature | 00:21:00 |
| Nature: 25 March 2010 | Fossil DNA from Siberia reveals a new human ancestor, First clinical trial to use RNA interference on tumours, and The wait to see if an anti-ageing molecule holds the key to longevity. | Nature | 00:31:04 |
| Nature: 18 March 2010 | Quantum behaviour in a visible object, How modern forensic techniques are helping criminal law suits, The sinister side of male pregnancy in pipefish, and we ask: Are we alone in the universe? | Nature | 00:30:17 |
| Nature: 11 March 2010 | Half-male, half-female chickens challenge ideas about sex determination, Einstein's theory of relativity tested beyond our Solar System, and behind the scenes at the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment. | Nature | 00:26:33 |
| Nature: 4 March 2010 | How our body's own cells could cause sepsis after trauma, the risks of enriching uranium using lasers, new fossil helps piece together dinosaur evolution, and genome sequencing on a massive scale in China. | Nature | 00:34:48 |
| Nature: 25 February 2010 | Electric currents enable marine bacteria to wire together, how our brains respond to social inequality, and an exoplanet losing its atmosphere. | Nature | 00:29:03 |
| Nature: 18 February 2010 | How to redesign the ribosome to make designer proteins, feedback from the first seismologist on the scene of the Haiti quake, and the incredible diversity between South African genomes. | Nature | 00:29:05 |
| Nature: 11 February 2010 | First genome of ancient human sequenced from hair, how to weigh a really heavy atom, the future of climate change research and the IPCC, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature. | Nature | 00:30:23 |
| Nature: 4 February 2010 | Quantum mechanical processes involved in plant photosynthesis, decay could be biasing fossil records, how to fix the internet, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature. | Nature | 00:26:19 |
| Nature: 28 January 2010 | Engineered bacteria produce better biofuels, functional brain cells created from skin cells, and fossils from Northern China reveal colour of dinosaur feathers. | Nature | 00:28:22 |
| Nature: 21 January 2010 | How mammals got to Madagascar, synthetic biologists synchronize bacterial clocks, Asian emissions pollute atmosphere above western North America, and the holes in climate research. | Nature | 00:31:22 |
| Nature: 14 January 2010 | Canada in need of polar research policy, the evolution of the human and chimp Y chromosomes, stress increases variation in a population, a two-decade-old galactic conundrum solved. | Nature | 00:37:18 |
| Nature: 7 January 2010 | A set of fossil footprints push back the date of the first four-legged creatures, we ask where science will be ten years from now. | Nature | 00:14:23 |
| Nature: 24 December 2009 | Calculating the velocity of climate change, how to pick the right genomes to sequence, a look back at cancer genomics in 2009. | Nature | 00:30:38 |
| Nature: 17 December 2009 | Sequencing of the giant panda genome provides clues to its diet, a waterworld orbiting a nearby star, how wars follow power laws, earthquake risks from geothermal energy. | Nature | 00:28:00 |
| Nature: 10 December 2009 | Why female birds glam up when sharing childcare, the rapid refilling of the Mediterranean basin, why the probability of species extinction is constant, how modifying fear responses could help treat anxiety disorders. | Nature | 00:32:44 |
| Nature: 3 December 2009 | A huge exploding star, fighting climate change with technology, the secrets of an important plant hormone, and how the brain rewires with learning. | Nature | 00:30:21 |
| Nature: 26 November 2009 | New spintronic device paves way for future information processing, the role of a 'bone' protein pair in the menopause, how we hear with our skin. | Nature | 00:25:17 |
| Nature: 19 November 2009 | Why paleontologists should predict instead of just describe, how to factor environmental goods into the economy, the cultural context of Darwin's theories. | Nature | 00:34:18 |
| Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev | We measure our economies in terms of trade, production and services - but one vital component is missing: the environment. Pavan Sukhdev is the study leader for a UN-run program on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, and he wants to see these resources accounted for. Kerri Smith talks to him. | Nature | 00:12:35 |
| Nature: 12 November 2009 | How a language gene behaves in humans and chimps, determining orbiting planets from a star's lithium levels, the run up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. | Nature | 00:27:12 |
| Nature: 5 November 2009 | Scientists take a closer look at a star first spotted in 1680, how unrelated animals lend a helping hand, a 'Pleistocene Park' in the Netherlands. | Nature | 00:24:45 |
| Nature: 29 October 2009 | A new type of communication between brain cells is confirmed, a theory about how the Earth became watery, questioning whether the speed of light is constant. | Nature | 00:25:06 |
| Nature: 22 October 2009 | The effects of sleep deprivation on memory, 250 years of London's Kew Gardens, watching evolution in the lab, and climate change in the Himalayas. | Nature | 00:33:21 |
| Nature: 15 October 2009 | Video game-playing mice, illiterate Columbian guerrillas, a magnet with only one pole, Nobel Prize-winner Elizabeth Blackburn, and in the news - a CERN scientist is charged with being a terrorist. | Nature | 00:30:56 |
| Nature: 8 October 2009 | Saturn's enormous ring, the looming phosphate crisis, rapidly rising magma, a whole heap of human genetics, and this year's Nobel Prizes. | Nature | 00:35:06 |
| Nature: 1 October 2009 | Sex chromosome evolution in stickleback and humans, cheat-resisting amoebae, and how powerful earthquakes may influence the strength of far-away faults. | Nature | 00:25:12 |
| Nature: 24 September 2009 | Planetary boundaries that are not to be crossed, early humans and carbon dioxide levels, India's genetic diversity, the genomes behind an epidemic. | Nature | 00:28:32 |
| Nature: 17 September 2009 | Gene therapy to correct colour blindness, droplets behaving weirdly, how warm temperatures in the past affected Greenland, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and live birth. | Nature | 00:34:25 |
| Nature: 10 September 2009 | The genome behind the Irish potato famine, a new take on the Great Oxidation Event, how dying cells signal 'come-kill-me', and the week's news highlights. | Nature | 00:27:47 |
| Nature: 3 September 2009 | The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'. | Nature | 00:26:29 |
| Nature Insight: Metalloproteins | Proteins that use metals to help them function are called metalloproteins. Join us as we learn how they choose their metal partners, what they use these metals for, and how studying them can help us explain everything from human diseases to the origin of life. | Nature | 00:23:22 |
| Nature Extra: Simon Singh | Science writer Simon Singh talks to Nature about his legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association and how UK libel laws affect science journalism. | Nature | 00:31:01 |
| Nature Extra: Ian McEwan | Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan often takes inspiration from science for his emotion-laden novels. He spoke at an event at University College London last week and Charlotte Stoddart chatted to him afterwards about emotion, literature and the brain. | Nature | 00:15:41 |
| Nature Extra: Nicholas Stern | The author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change explains how the recession could help curb global warming and calls for 'the greatest collaboration the world has ever seen' to reduce global CO2 emissions. | Nature | 00:15:57 |
| Nature Extra: John Maddox | Senior editor Henry Gee remembers John Maddox, famed former Nature editor who died on April 12th 2009. | Nature | 00:09:15 |
| Nature Extra: Paul Bettany | In this exclusive interview for Nature, Bettany talks about playing Darwin in the forthcoming film 'Creation'. | Nature | 00:20:15 |
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