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| 06 Jun 2019 | How gut microbes might alter the effect of drugs. A new theory on the beginning of plate tectonics. Elephants have a nose for portion size... | Nature | 00:21:24 |
| PastCast May 1983 | In this podcast, we hear from the 'little voice' in the background whose persistence led to the reporting of the ozone hole. | Nature | 00:15:48 |
| 30 May 2019 | This week, looking back at cold fusion, a ranking of gender balance in universities, and measuring the impact of wildfires. | Nature | 00:16:05 |
| 23 May 2019 | This week, how climate change has affected plankton, the future of European science, and evidence of an ancient fungus. | Nature | 00:27:43 |
| 16 May 2019 | This week, rewriting the script of life, and a trip to the far side of the Moon. | Nature | 00:23:40 |
| 09 May 2019 | This week, body mass increases around the world, and the health of rivers in decline. | Nature | 00:21:23 |
| 02 May 2019 | This week, China's Belt and Road Initiative, and translating brain patterns into speech. | Nature | 00:26:44 |
| PastCast Apr 1953 | Over 60 years ago?, we published Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA. There were 3 papers on DNA in that issue of Nature! | Nature | 00:14:12 |
| 25 Apr 2019 | A new way to identify tiny earthquakes, the inheritability of height, and how political tensions with China affect research. | Nature | 00:10:36 |
| 18 Apr 2019 | Restoring function in dead pig brains. Spring science books. The structure of lightning. | Nature | 00:27:44 |
| Podcast Extra | This week, researchers released the first image of a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy... | Nature | 00:06:31 |
| 11 Apr 2019 | This week, a new mouse model for heart failure and characterising energy fluctuations in empty space. | Nature | 00:23:44 |
| 04 Apr 2019 | This week, why MDMA could make social interactions more rewarding, and how your skin keeps itself youthful. | Nature | 00:25:35 |
| 29 Mar 2019 | Our reporters discuss calls to pause heritable genome-editing research, and how science journalism changed in the last 20 years. | Nature | 00:21:16 |
| 28 Mar 2019 | How humans are affecting Kilimanjaro's ecosystems, differences in pain based on biological sex, and refrigerating with crystals. | Nature | 00:29:32 |
| 21 Mar 2019 | This week, a plan to spray antibiotics onto orange trees, and is it time to retire statistical significance? | Nature | 00:25:23 |
| 15 Mar 1918 | To mark our 150th birthday we rebroadcast episodes from our Pastcast series, bringing to life key moments... | Nature | 00:16:03 |
| 14 Mar 2019 | The ongoing Ebola outbreak in DRC, an injectable treatment for HIV, and how the proposed US 2020 budget could affect science. | Nature | 00:11:43 |
| 07 Mar 2019 | This week, wetlands' ability to store carbon, mobile health, and the story of Mileva Maric. | Nature | 00:27:02 |
| 28 Feb 2019 | This week, the parenting strategies of a tropical cuckoo, increasing the number of topological materials, and growing cannabinoids in yeast. | Nature | 00:31:03 |
| 21 Feb 2019 | This week, mapping every cell in a mouse embryo and the benefits of cataloguing all the viruses on Earth. | Nature | 00:25:09 |
| 14 Feb 2019 | This week, the links between atherosclerosis and sleep-deprivation, and how team size affects research outputs. | Nature | 00:23:34 |
| 07 Feb 2019 | This week, virtual drug discovery, and a new addition to the CRISPR toolkit - CasX. | Nature | 00:24:51 |
| 31 Jan 2019 | This week, the female chemists who helped build the periodic table, and harnessing the extra energy in Wi-Fi signals. | Nature | 00:21:46 |
| 24 Jan 2019 | This week, the effects of recessions on public health, and simulating supermassive black holes. | Nature | 00:23:11 |
| 17 Jan 2019 | This week: RNA splicing in yeast, investigating introns' roles, and reanimating a fossil. | Nature | 00:23:16 |
| 11 Jan 2019 | Geoff Marsh speaks with the physician Dr Lakshminarayan Ranganath about their search for a treatment for alkaptonuria. | Nature | 00:10:52 |
| 10 Jan 2019 | This week, detecting intergalactic radio bursts, and seeing what's in store for science in 2019. | Nature | 00:20:50 |
| 26 Dec 2018 | In this round-up episode of the Nature Podcast, a few of our regular reporters choose their favourite podcast piece of 2018... | Nature | 00:23:17 |
| 20 Dec 2018 | The Nature Podcast's 2018 end of year special, including songs, books, our annual quiz, and more! | Nature | 00:33:33 |
| Podcast Extra | New research suggests that a key protein involved in Altzheimers disease can be transferred between brains. | Nature | 00:09:45 |
| 13 Dec 2018 | This week,'performing' experiments, and making mirrored molecules - chiral chemistry. | Nature | 00:24:13 |
| 06 Dec 2018 | This week, improving heart xenotransplants and soil bacteria versus phages. | Nature | 00:24:20 |
| 29 Nov 2018 | This week, measuring gravity's strength with clocks, and worries over wind farms' wakes. | Nature | 00:24:24 |
| 22 Nov 2018 | This week, a solid-state plane engine with no moving parts, and 'mosaicism' in brain cells. | Nature | 00:24:17 |
| 15 Nov 2018 | This week, evidence of a nearby exoplanet, and clinical trials in a social media world. | Nature | 00:21:45 |
| 08 Nov 2018 | This week, building a cell from the bottom up, and a Breakthough Prize winner | Nature | 00:25:17 |
| 01 Nov 2018 | This week, the role that mood forecasting technology may play in suicide prevention, and a 'crisis' in dark matter research. | Nature | 00:22:29 |
| 18 Oct 2018 | This week, how science can help Canadian cannabis growers and a potted history of the Sun. | Nature | 00:23:48 |
| 11 Oct 2018 | This week, what life is like when you've just won a Nobel prize, and how a vestigial organ helps ants get organised. | Nature | 00:22:56 |
| 04 Oct 2018 | This week, targeting latent HIV, the breeding behaviour of bold birds, and an update on a near-Earth asteroid mission. | Nature | 00:30:33 |
| 27 Sep 2018 | This week, an ultra-thin, wearable biosensor and a multi-shape, mechanical metamaterial. | Nature | 00:22:01 |
| 20 Sep 2018 | This week, the ethics of sucking carbon-dioxide out the atmosphere and bee swarms under strain. | Nature | 00:25:28 |
| 13 Sep 2018 | This week, the oldest drawing ever found, and the hidden energy costs of data. | Nature | 00:24:37 |
| 6 Sep 2018 | This week, keeping an eye on space junk, and how a physicist changed our understanding of life. | Nature | 00:23:06 |
| 30 Aug 2018 | This week, an early mammal relative's babies, and new attempts to pin down the strength of gravity. | Nature | 00:23:01 |
| Backchat Aug 2018 | In this month's roundtable, audio vs print reporting, returning to Brexit, and finding out about our audience. | Nature | 00:24:12 |
| 23 Aug 2018 | This week, colony size and labour division in ants, and simulating a quantum system on a quantum computer. | Nature | 00:24:55 |
| 16 Aug 2018 | This week, more worries for bees, modelling the opioid crisis, and rough weather for seas. | Nature | 00:29:58 |
| 08 Aug 2018 | This week, shaping the gut microbiota, geoengineering's effect on farming, and the genetics of fox aggression. | Nature | 00:27:02 |
| 02 Aug 2018 | How a bird sees colour, potential problems with terraforming Mars, and linking extreme weather to our changing climate. | Nature | 00:32:05 |
| 26 Jul 2018 | This week, automata through the ages, problems with pet DNA tests, and a conservation conundrum. | Nature | 00:28:51 |
| 19 Jul 2018 | This week, tougher DNA nanostructures, climate-altering permafrost microbes, and using a robot to discover chemical reactions. | Nature | 00:26:40 |
| 12 Jul 2018 | This week, rats and coral reefs, charting successful careers streaks, and Cape Town's water crisis. | Nature | 00:31:10 |
| 4 Jul, 2018 | This week, investigating the koala genome, the issues facing LGBTQ+ researchers, and a DNA-based neural network. | Nature | 00:30:33 |
| 29 Jun 2018 | In this month's roundtable, we discuss lab health, email briefings, & how science stories affect the stock market. | Nature | 00:19:12 |
| 27 Jun 2018 | The relationship between air pollution and infant death in Africa. Stressed brains. Diagnosing sick plants from afar. | Nature | 00:29:12 |
| 21 Jun 2018 | Pancreatic cancer-related weight loss, tiny silica cages, and bias in Artificial Intelligence algorithms. | Nature | 00:27:10 |
| 14 Jun 2018 | The mysterious death of African baobab trees. Antarctica's past, present, and future. How zebrafish protect their stem cells. | Nature | 00:33:12 |
| 07 Jun 2018 | Making enzymes work better in the cold. Short-term memory production in mice. Magnetic detection in animals. | Nature | 00:31:07 |
| 31 May 2018 | Boosting diversity in physics graduate programs, and life's recovery after a massive asteroid impact. | Nature | 00:24:24 |
| 24 May 2018 | Climate costs, cleverer cab journeys, and peering through matter with muons... | Nature | 00:31:59 |
| 17 May 2018 | Peering inside the proton. Pitfalls of research misconduct. What bacterial genes of unknown function actually do. | Nature | 00:28:19 |
| 10 May 2018 | Artificial intelligence recreates our sense of place. Liquid crystals deliver cargo. Depression in academia. | Nature | 00:29:20 |
| 03 May 2018 | Constructing early embryos. How mice react to danger. What an ancient rhino tells us about hominin migration. | Nature | 00:28:57 |
| 26 Apr 2018 | The ethical questions raised by model minds, and an updated view on an enzyme that keeps chromosomes protected. | Nature | 00:20:40 |
| 20 Apr 2018 | We discuss celebrity scientists, sexual harassment in research, and the science behind a social media scandal. | Nature | 00:27:31 |
| 19 Apr 2018 | Tiny sea creatures with potentially big effects, the science of a supernova, and a roundup of spring books. | Nature | 00:31:23 |
| 12 Apr 2018 | This week, looking for glitchy signals from neutron stars, and using remote sensing in research. | Nature | 00:22:37 |
| 05 Apr 2018 | This week, dissecting human influence on the Mississippi's floods, and getting 'dirty' mice into the lab. | Nature | 00:24:18 |
| 29 Mar 2018 | Testing a neural network's chemistry skills. What the physics of droplets teaches about the biology of cells. | Nature | 00:32:58 |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Glucose metabolism in Mexican cavefish. Non-antibiotic drugs & gut microbes. A wearable brain scanner. | Nature | 00:40:08 |
| 15 Mar 2018 | This week, geoengineering glaciers to prevent sea level rise, and using diamonds to improve NMR’s resolution. | Nature | 00:33:28 |
| 08 Mar 2018 | This week, Surprising graphene superconductors, and a retrospective of a sci-fi classic on electric sheep. | Nature | 00:31:38 |
| 01 Mar 2018 | The landscape of childhood cancers, physicists find a fingerprint from the early Universe, & brain waves cause a splash. | Nature | 00:41:19 |
| Backchat Feb 2018 | The role of serendipity in science. How to cover the iterative nature of research. What the quantum internet might become | Nature | 00:33:30 |
| 22 Feb 2018 | This week, a teenage special: defining adolescence; high school researchers; and the science of teen risk taking. | Nature | 00:37:32 |
| 15 Feb 2018 | This week, refocusing aging research, a transportable optical clock, and researching during pregnancy. | Nature | 00:37:05 |
| 08 Feb 2018 | This week, crayfish clones in Madagascar, the social smarts of magpies, and building tougher wood. | Nature | 00:40:01 |
| 1 Feb 2017 | This week, reframing humans' arrival in India, and the many hazards facing coral reefs. | Nature | 00:31:08 |
| 25 Jan 2018 | This week, a mini all-terrain robot, 3D painting with light, and a new maze for rats. | Nature | 00:38:44 |
| 18 Jan, 2018 | This week, pinning down the climate's carbon dioxide sensitivity, and the battle over babies' first bacteria. | Nature | 00:34:13 |
| 10 Jan, 2018 | This week, tabletop physics, what a memory looks like, and conflict's toll on wildlife. | Nature | 00:42:10 |
| Backchat Dec 2017 | Discussions of Donald Trump, papers with zero citations, and the perils of writing about physics. | Nature | 00:34:58 |
| 21 Dec 2017 | Our year end special, featuring Earth science AI, a news story quiz, and science fiction in the modern era. | Nature | 00:47:34 |
| 14 Dec 2017 | This week, electric eel inspired batteries, virus inspired protein shells, and modelling magma viscosity. | Nature | 00:40:18 |
| 7 Dec 2017 | This week, exoplanet geology and a dual-terrain, duck-like dinosaur... | Nature | 00:33:16 |
| 30 Nov 2017 | This week, reading unnatural DNA, and young worm mothers explain a wriggly riddle. | Nature | 00:33:47 |
| 23 Nov 2017 | This week, lightning gamma rays, the Internet that wasn't, and the science of sleep deprivation. | Nature | 00:35:54 |
| 16 Nov 2017 | This week, a bacterial communication system, and ancient houses illuminate inequality. | Nature | 00:33:49 |
| 9 Nov 2017 | This week, a potential stem cell treatment for a genetic skin condition, and the disappearing axolotl. | Nature | 00:32:36 |
| 2 Nov 2017 | This week, squishy sea creatures, evolving verbs, and Earth's microbiome. | Nature | 00:35:02 |
| 26 Oct 2017 | This week, undead cells, the strain of PhDs, and the traces of Antarctic instability. | Nature | 00:39:14 |
| 19 Oct 2017 | Neutron stars make waves in the physics world, and take looking at the past to understand the future of work. | Nature | 00:32:01 |
| 12 Oct 2017 | A dwarf planet with a ring. 40 years of Sanger DNA sequencing. Grieving families contribute to a huge genetics project. | Nature | 00:39:32 |
| Nature Extra: 500th show | To celebrate our 500th episode, we asked 8 presenters to recommend their favourite contributions to the show. | Nature | 01:10:17 |
| 5 Oct 2017 | This week, floating cities, malaria free mosquitos, and using evolution to inspire aircraft design. | Nature | 00:49:55 |
| 21 Sep 2017 | This week, Sherlock Holmes the scientist and investigating the nanotubes between cells. | Nature | 00:33:26 |
| 14 Sep 2017 | This week, writing quantum software, and predicting the loss of Asia's glaciers. | Nature | 00:32:53 |
| 7 Sep 2017 | Protecting red haired people from cancer, machine learning and gravitational distortions, and peeking inside predatory journals. | Nature | 00:37:34 |
| 24 Aug 2017 | The creeping danger of slow landslides, and what worms can teach us about the wriggly problem of reproducibility. | Nature | 00:34:14 |
| 17 Aug 2017 | This week, preventing genetic diseases in China, a red supergiant star's mystery, and the algal boom. | Nature | 00:37:48 |
| 10 Aug 2017 | This week, ancient mammal relatives, complex brain maps, and a 19th century solar eclipse. | Nature | 00:38:55 |
| 2 Aug 2017 | This week, the first flower, gene editing human embryos, and the antimatter quest. | Nature | 00:41:27 |
| 27 Jul 2017 | This week, a brain-inspired computer, the brain's control of ageing, and Al Gore the climate communicator. | Nature | 00:41:17 |
| 20 Jul 2017 | This week, getting a handle on topology, and working out why the fastest animals are medium sized. | Nature | 00:39:00 |
| 13 Jul 2017 | This week, defying quantum noise, looking at early signs of autism, and taking steps to assess exercise. | Nature | 00:39:31 |
| 6 Jul 2017 | A new kind of quantum bit, the single-cell revolution, and exploring Antarctica’s past to understand sea level rise. | Nature | 00:37:52 |
| Grand Challenges: Energy | To combat global warming, the world needs to change where it gets its energy from. Three energy experts discuss the challenges... | Nature | 00:35:48 |
| Extra: The Grey Zone | Kerri Smith talks to neuroscientist Adrian Owen about communicating with patients in vegetative states. | Nature | 00:26:29 |
| Backchat: Jun 2017 | Reporters and editors respond to the UK election. The tangled taxonomy of our species - why physicists love to hate the standard model. | Nature | 00:33:01 |
| 15 Jun 2017 | This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music. | Nature | 00:39:07 |
| 8 Jun 2017 | Early Homo sapiens in Morocco, mathematicians trying to stop gerrymandering, and going beyond the standard model. | Nature | 00:40:52 |
| Grand Challenges: Food security | Millions around the world are chronically hungry. Three experts on agriculture discuss how to help people grow enough food... | Nature | 00:34:44 |
| 1 Jun 2017 | This week, 'sticky' RNA causes disease, disorganised taxonomy, and 'intelligent crowd' peer review. | Nature | 00:40:31 |
| Nature Extra: Futures May 2017 | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from May, 'Life, hacked' by Krystal Claxton. | Nature | 00:17:28 |
| Backchat: May 2017 | This month the team are chatting scientific data, scientific papers and... religion. | Nature | 00:33:43 |
| 25 May 2017 | This week, E. coli with colour vision, tracing the Zika virus outbreak, and a roadmap for medical microbots. | Nature | 00:37:57 |
| 18 May 2017 | This week, wonky vehicle emissions tests, error-prone bots help humans, and animals that lack a microbiome. | Nature | 00:39:20 |
| 11 May 2017 | Fake antibodies scupper research. The diversity of cells in a tumour. What happened before tectonic plates? | Nature | 00:39:40 |
| 4 May 2017 | This week, the secret life of the thalamus, how to talks about antibiotic resistance, and dangerous research. | Nature | 00:38:43 |
| Grand Challenges: Ageing | Ageing is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we're ready for it, as individuals, or as a society. We discuss it in detail. | Nature | 00:39:53 |
| Nature Extra: Futures Apr 2017 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Cold comforts' by Graham Robert Scott. | Nature | 00:17:27 |
| 27 Apr 2017 | This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe's first 'baby picture'. | Nature | 00:40:57 |
| Backchat: 21 Apr 2017 | This weekend's March for Science. Biases in artificial intelligence. Scientific papers are getting harder to read. | Nature | 00:33:40 |
| 13 Apr 2017 | This week, politician scientists, human genetic 'knockouts' and East Antarctica's instability. | Nature | 00:38:52 |
| 6 Apr 2017 | This week, easing the pressure on fisheries, protein structure surprises, and your reading list for 2017 so far. | Nature | 00:39:26 |
| Grand Challenges: Mental Health | Mental health disorders touch rich and poor, young and old, in every country around the world. Hear three experts discuss... | Nature | 00:35:58 |
| Futures Mar 2017 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Green boughs will cover thee' by Sarah L Byrne. | Nature | 00:14:41 |
| 30 Mar 2017 | This week, mapping sound in the brain, dwindling groundwater, and giving common iron uncommon properties. | Nature | 00:37:29 |
| Backchat: Mar 2017 | Predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, academic as editor. The Great Barrier Reef in hot water... | Nature | 00:31:16 |
| 23 Mar 2017 | This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer. | Nature | 00:36:25 |
| 16 Mar 2017 | This week, making plane fuel greener, yeast chromosomes synthesised from scratch, and seeking out hidden HIV. | Nature | 00:35:44 |
| Nature PastCast - Mar 1918 | As World War 1 draws to an ends, astronomer Arthur Eddington sets out to prove Einstein’s new theory of general relativity. | Nature | 00:18:36 |
| 9 Mar 2017 | This week, the earliest known life, Neanderthal self-medication, and data storage in a single atom. | Nature | 00:33:07 |
| 2 Mar 2017 | This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration. | Nature | 00:29:49 |
| Backchat: Feb 2017 | AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game. | Nature | 00:24:18 |
| Futures Jan 2017 | Shamini Bundell and Richard Hodson read you their favourite from February, 'Fermi's zookeepers' by David Gullen. | Nature | 00:06:32 |
| 23 Feb 2017 | This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research | Nature | 00:30:56 |
| 16 Feb 2017 | Winston Churchill's thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials. | Nature | 00:30:25 |
| Nature PastCast - Feb 1925 | Paleontologist Raymond Dart found a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of... | Nature | 00:14:34 |
| 9 Feb 2017 | This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown? | Nature | 00:33:44 |
| 2 Feb 2017 | Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear. Getting to Proxima b. Have physicists made metallic hydrogen? | Nature | 00:31:59 |
| Nature Extra: Jan 2017 | Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang. | Nature | 00:08:08 |
| Backchat: Jan 2017 | How best to name your science project? Implications for science of Trump's first days in office. Perils of reproducing others' work. | Nature | 00:25:13 |
| 26 Jan 2017 | This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds. | Nature | 00:33:24 |
| 19 Jan 2017 | This week, communication between viruses, reproducing cancer studies, and explaining 'fairy circles'. | Nature | 00:33:23 |
| PastCast - Jan 1896 | Late nineteenth century physics in the was increasingly concerned with things that couldn't be seen. X-rays and William Roentgen. | Nature | 00:18:04 |
| 12 Jan 2017 | This week, ridding New Zealand of rats, making choices in the grocery store, and what to expect in 2017. | Nature | 00:25:39 |
| 22 Dec 2016 | It’s our bumper end-of-year show, with a 2016 round-up, holiday reading picks, science carols, word games and more. | Nature | 00:41:29 |
| 15 Dec 2016 | A spray that boosts plant growth and resilience. 3-million-year old hominin footprints. The seahorse genome. | Nature | 00:32:27 |
| PastCast - Dec 1920 | Physicists were entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Max Planck's Nobel Prize was the subject of a Nature news article. | Nature | 00:17:01 |
| 7 Dec, 2016 | This week, the benefits of randomness, correcting brain waves soothes Alzheimer’s, and the DNA of liberated slaves. | Nature | 00:34:03 |
| Futures Nov 2016 | Adam Levy reads you his favourite from November, ’Melissa' by Troy Stieglitz. | Nature | 00:10:12 |
| 1 Dec 2016 | This week, CRISPR’s rival stumbles, Pluto’s icy heart, and is mitochondrial replacement ready for the clinic? | Nature | 00:30:28 |
| 24 Nov 2016 | Whale shark DNA in seawater. Human computers behind early astronomy. Building materials with a microscope. New synchrotron. | Nature | 00:33:00 |
| Backchat: Nov 2016 | Donald Trump's impact on research and climate action, and how Nature should discuss politics. | Nature | 00:24:37 |
| 17 Nov 2016 | This week, your brain on cannabis, testing CRISPR in a human, and what it might be like to live on Mars. | Nature | 00:24:14 |
| PastCast - Nov 1869 | The first issue of Nature looked very different from today's magazine. It opened with poetry and was written for a general audience. | Nature | 00:18:13 |
| 10 Nov 2016 | CERN for the brain, a climate tax on food, brain-spine interface helps paralysed monkeys, & what Trump effect on science. | Nature | 00:35:30 |
| 3 Nov 2016 | The earliest humans to roam Australia, Werner Herzog’s new volcano film, and astronomers ignoring competing theories? | Nature | 00:33:17 |
| Extra: Oct 2016 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from Month, 'The sixth circle' by J. W. Armstrong. | Nature | 00:12:31 |
| 27 Oct 2016 | This week, the challenges facing young scientists, pseudo-pseudo genes, and the history of HIV in the US. | Nature | 00:33:52 |
| Backchat: Oct 2016 | Europe’s Mars probe loses touch, UK government proposes research funding shake-up, and science’s most bothersome buzzwords. | Nature | 00:25:07 |
| 20 Oct 2016 | Making egg cells in a dish, super-bright flares in nearby galaxies, predicting the election, and scientists voting for Trump. | Nature | 00:30:35 |
| PastCast - Oct 1993 | In the early 1990s, a team of astrophysicists saw signs of life on a planet in our galaxy. Astronomy experts tell the story... | Nature | 00:15:52 |
| 13 Oct 2016 | Refugee mental health, better neural nets, and changing attitudes to female genital cutting. | Nature | 00:31:41 |
| Extra: Nobel News | Science gets glitzy each October as Nobel Prizes are awarded. Find out who in Medicine Physiology, Physics and Chemistry. | Nature | 00:11:06 |
| 6 Oct 2016 | This week, a limit to lifespan, AI's black box problem, and ageing stem cells. | Nature | 00:25:35 |
| Backchat: Sep 2016 | The challenges of getting into science, getting a decent salary once you're in, and getting funding through philanthropy. | Nature | 00:27:22 |
| 29 Sep 2016 | The chemistry of life’s origins, two million years of temperatures, and studying the heaviest elements. | Nature | 00:28:47 |
| Extra: Sep 2016 | Miranda Keeling reads you our favourite from September, ’Try Catch Throw’ by Andrew Neil Gray. | Nature | 00:10:08 |
| 22 Sep 2016 | This week, a sea of viruses, defining social class, the human journey out of Africa and human remains found on Antikythera shipwreck. | Nature | 00:32:06 |
| PastCast - Sep 1963 | When a German geologist first suggested that continents move, people dismissed it as a wild idea... | Nature | 00:18:25 |
| 15 Sep 2016 | The ideal office environment, synthesising speech, and embryo epigenetics. | Nature | 00:30:29 |
| 8 Sep 2016 | Solving ethical dilemmas Star Trek style, farming festivals boost yield, and three scientists on their sci-fi inspirations. | Nature | 00:38:29 |
| 1 Sep 2016 | Famous hominin Lucy may have died when she fell from a tree, and an antibody-based drug shows promise in Alzheimer's | Nature | 00:17:00 |
| Futures: Aug 2016 | Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from August, INTERDIMENSIONAL TRADE BENEFITS, by Brian Trent. | Nature | 00:08:47 |
| Backchat: Aug 2016 | A nearby Earth-like planet, preprint servers proliferate, and the scientific legacy Obama leaves behind. | Nature | 00:25:50 |
| 25 Aug 2016 | An Earth-like planet on our doorstep, dietary restriction combats ageing syndrome, and drugs for neglected diseases. | Nature | 00:28:23 |
| PastCast: Aug 1975 | Monoclonal antibodies. How basic science quietly became blockbuster medicine. Originally aired 14/08/13. | Nature | 00:21:09 |
| 18 Aug 2016 | This week, how fins became limbs, a giant gene database cracks clinical cases, and making better opioids. | Nature | 00:30:29 |
| 11 Aug 2016 | This week, the migration route of the first Americans, the bandwidth crisis, clever conductors, and the next CRISPR. | Nature | 00:28:08 |
| 4 Aug 2016 | Parenting tips from science, quenching a question about thirst, and a programmable quantum computer. | Nature | 00:30:39 |
| PastCast - Jul 1942 | John Westcott's secret project was to design radars. His work not only helped the war effort; it led to new branches of science. | Nature | 00:17:58 |
| Extra: Futures Jul 2016 | Adam Levy reads you his favourite from July, 'Revision theory' by Blaize M. Kaye. | Nature | 00:09:13 |
| 28 Jul 2016 | How we time our breathing, working with indigenous peoples, using yeast genetics to build better beer. | Nature | 00:29:28 |
| Backchat: Jul 2016 | What’s it like having an endless supply of Brexit stories? Why do space missions always get so much attention? And... | Nature | 00:28:52 |
| 21 Jul 2016 | The perils of tech in health, tumour fighting bacteria, and the science of what sounds good. | Nature | 00:30:46 |
| 14 Jul 2016 | A special issue on conflict. Psychological toll of war, how to count the dead. Predicting conflict in the 21st century. | Nature | 00:34:49 |
| 7 Jul 2016 | This week, nature and landscape, the Hitomi satellite’s swan song, and reforming peer review. | Nature | 00:29:47 |
| Extra: Jun 2016 | The Nature Podcast team read you their favourite from June, 'The Memory Ward' by Wendy Nikel. | Nature | 00:08:29 |
| 30 Jun 2016 | Dolly the sheep’s legacy, the trials of funding interdisciplinary research, and an 'IPCC' for social science. | Nature | 00:29:50 |
| 23 Jun 2016 | Transmissible cancer. Organising the hadron menagerie. The latest gravitational wave result. What physicists want to know next. | Nature | 00:30:18 |
| Backchat: Jun 2016 | What could Brexit mean for EU research and researchers? How should science reporters cover the US elections? Antarctic rescue | Nature | 00:25:21 |
| 16 Jun 2016 | This week, pimping proteins, adapting enzymes, and conserving coral reefs. | Nature | 00:31:39 |
| PastCast: Jun 1876 | In the late 1800s, Europe was gripped by gorilla fever. Were they man's closest animal relative? | Nature | 00:18:57 |
| 9 Jun 2016 | This week, researcher rehab, the hobbit’s ancestry, and Google’s quantum plans. | Nature | 00:30:34 |
| 2 Jun 2016 | The genetics behind a textbook case of evolution, Earth’s core conundrum, and Pluto’s polygonal surface. | Nature | 00:33:13 |
| Extra: Futures May 2016 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite SciFi from May, "Project Earth is Leaving Beta" by J. W. Alden. | Nature | 00:08:45 |
| 26 May 2016 | How clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats. | Nature | 00:32:16 |
| 19 May 2016 | Treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, and experimenting with history. | Nature | 00:33:12 |
| Extra: Backchat May 2016 | The endless quest to make fusion energy, virtual reality in the lab, and a boat gets a name. | Nature | 00:27:48 |
| 12 May 2016 | The Zika virus and birth defects. Colliding quasi-particles. Combatting sprawling networks of spam. | Nature | 00:30:54 |
| PastCast - May 1985 | Jonathan Shanklin discovered a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. It became the poster child for environmentalism | Nature | 00:18:21 |
| Extra: Futures Apr 2016 | Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell read their favourite from April, CHOICES, IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. | Nature | 00:10:02 |
| 5 May 2016 | The value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains' energy demands. | Nature | 00:30:11 |
| 28 Apr 2016 | A language map of the brain. Listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake. The Soviet internet that never was. | Nature | 00:30:46 |
| Apr 2016 | Fuss over editing human embryos dies down. Quantum expertise of Canada’s Prime Minister. Reporting for 24 hours straight. | Nature | 00:29:00 |
| 21 Apr 2016 | The psychology of climate change, the 1.5 degree temperature target, and what to do when climate change ruins your research. | Nature | 00:29:56 |
| 14 Apr 2016 | A computer game helps build a quantum computer. The brain’s built-in backup. History & science of hearing voices. | Nature | 00:32:32 |
| REBROADCAST: Apr 1953 | Watson and Crick published a seminal paper on the structure of DNA. Plus two other papers on DNA from the same issue of Nature. | Nature | 00:17:00 |
| 7 Apr 2016 | Apps that claim to treat mental health issues, ritual human sacrifice, and supernova debris on Earth. | Nature | 00:30:35 |
| Futures: Mar 2016 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Adjenia’ by Natalia Theodoridou. | Nature | 00:08:22 |
| 31 Mar 2016 | Antarctic-sized uncertainty, making gamers more polite, and a pocket gravity meter. | Nature | 00:33:37 |
| 24 Mar 2016 | Toggling brain activity with radio waves. How to build stuff that lasts. Making thrillseekers into care-takers. | Nature | 00:33:46 |
| Extra: Mar 2016 | Misused statistics, the latest gossip on Google’s Go-playing AI, and watching mathematicians win prizes. | Nature | 00:27:28 |
| 17 Mar 2016 | Retrieving lost memories, nailing down China’s emissions, and is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible? | Nature | 00:33:09 |
| 10 Mar 2016 | The frontiers of CRISPR. Chewing raw goat for science. Using the eye’s own stem cells to fix it. | Nature | 00:29:06 |
| Extra: Feb 2016 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from February, ‘Duck, duck, duck' by Samantha Murray. | Nature | 00:06:46 |
| 3 Mar 2016 | More fast radio bursts spotted. How do you know where you are when you're not moving. Listening in on a whale banquet. | Nature | 00:31:06 |
| Extra: Backchat | A re-run of a famously manipulative psychology study. How to manipulate our brains and minds, and nudge our societies... | Nature | 00:23:43 |
| 25 Feb 2016 | Future-proof our world: fight our natural bias against planning for the future. What does today's science mean for tomorrow's health? | Nature | 00:26:40 |
| 18 Feb 2016 | This week, making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal. | Nature | 00:28:52 |
| Extra: Gravitational waves | Einstein's prediction was right: gravitational waves do exist, scientists at LIGO reported yesterday in Washington, DC. | Nature | 00:08:57 |
| 11 Feb 2016 | This week, the end of Moore’s law, religion and cooperation, and shareholders’ duty to manage climate risks. | Nature | 00:30:40 |
| 4 Feb 2016 | This week, killing off old cells lengthens life, brain-tickling comedy, and new forests make good carbon sinks. | Nature | 00:31:42 |
| Extra: Jan 2016 | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads BEYOND 550 ASTRONOMICAL UNITS by Mike Brotherton. | Nature | 00:07:55 |
| Extra: Jan 2016 | The putative Planet X. Gravitational wave rumours and how to report them. The Selfish Gene 40 years on. | Nature | 00:31:30 |
| 28 Jan 2016 | This week, the computer that can play Go, a general 'ageing' factor, and the stolen library of John Dee. | Nature | 00:24:08 |
| 21 Jan 2016 | A brain sensor that melts away after use. A 10,000 year old murder mystery. What happens when chickens go wild. | Nature | 00:27:14 |
| 14 Jan 2016 | This week, our gut bugs’ love of fibre, squeezing quantum states, and studying boredom. | Nature | 00:28:56 |
| 7 Jan 2016 | Science predictions for 2016. Effect of extreme weather on crops. A new phase of hydrogen for the new year. | Nature | 00:23:11 |
| Extra - Psychology of Star Wars | What can the world of Star Wars tell us about psychology? Travis Langley explains all using examples from his new book. | Nature | 00:12:20 |
| 17 Dec 2015 | Highlights of the year. The Paris climate meeting. Psyching out the characters in Star Wars. Busting some scientific myths... | Nature | 00:49:37 |
| 10 Dec 2015 | The dwarf planet Ceres gets a close-up. Using fetal tissue in science. Wasting condition in cancer patients. | Nature | 00:27:02 |
| 3 Dec 2015 | The origins of mysterious radio bursts, fixing the PhD system, and tracking down the universe’s missing matter. | Nature | 00:28:24 |
| Extra: Futures Nov 2015 | Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from November, 'One slow step for man' by S R Algernon. | Nature | 00:07:00 |
| Extra: Nov 2015 | Einstein’s theory of general relativity turns 100 years old. International Years as news pegs. | Nature | 00:23:28 |
| 26 Nov 2015 | Super-high-res ultrasound. The amazing world of soils. Five classic books about sustainability. | Nature | 00:26:39 |
| 19 Nov 2015 | A nursery for big baby planets. Meddling with taste perception. China’s mega water transfer plan. 100th anniversary of general relativity. | Nature | 00:33:27 |
| 12 Nov 2015 | Storms on Twitter over sexism in science. Porous liquids. The long relationship between humans and bees. | Nature | 00:27:33 |
| Extra: Oct 2015 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from October, 'Staff meeting, as seen by the spam filter' by Alex Shvartsman. | Nature | 00:02:00 |
| 5 Nov 2015 | Spontaneously jumping droplets. Growing economy, sane environment. Data onslaught as all gadgets become internet-enabled. | Nature | 00:29:04 |
| 29 Oct 2015 | How cancers spread. The hallmarks of bipolar disorder in the brain. Making carbon dioxide useful. | Nature | 00:27:37 |
| Extra: 23 Oct 2015 | Astronomer quits over sexual harassment investigation. The abstract world of mathematics. Science in fashion. | Nature | 00:29:41 |
| 22 Oct 2015 | This week, a dying solar system just like ours, the effect of temperature on the economy, and electricity-eating bacteria. | Nature | 00:29:42 |
| 14 Oct 2015 | Ancient human teeth found in China. Cooperating in climate negotiations. Humble worm surprises scientists. | Nature | 00:29:05 |
| Extra: Sep 2015 | Shamini Bundell and Geoff Marsh read you their favourite sci-fi from September, Time Flies, by Carie Juettner. | Nature | 00:05:55 |
| 8 Oct 2015 | An impenetrable mathematical proof. Toggling REM sleep on and off. The latest results from the Rosetta mission. | Nature | 00:30:02 |
| 1 Oct 2015 | The future of digital currency. New lead for antibiotics. 25 years of cataloguing the human genome. | Nature | 00:29:44 |
| 24 Sep 2015 | Looking back at malaria interventions. Using private data for research. How to twist a travelling neutron. | Nature | 00:24:02 |
| Extra: Backchat Sep 2015 | Promising results from the LHC, reproducing psychology studies, and unpicking interdisciplinarity. | Nature | 00:25:15 |
| 17 Sep 2015 | This week, camouflaging nanoparticles to deliver drugs. Science meets theatre. Getting a global picture of air pollution. | Nature | 00:27:45 |
| Extra - Neurotribes | Steve Silberman's book, Neurotribes, details the history of autism spectrum disorder. How we should embrace those who think differently. | Nature | 00:22:51 |
| 10 Sep 2015 | Thinking differently about autism. Plankton poop in the clouds. Hack-proofing our data. | Nature | 00:22:51 |
| Extra: Aug 2015 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from August, 'The Shoulder of Orion', by Eric Garside. | Nature | |
| 3 Sep 2015 | Weather forecasting. Rethinking the water cycle. A special segment to celebrate our 400th episode. | Nature | 00:27:44 |
| Extra | The Invention of Science. | Nature | 00:12:26 |
| 27 Aug 2015 | A new look at the scientific revolution. Accelerating positrons on a tabletop. Squashing the unsquashable. | Nature | 00:28:02 |
| Extra: Aug 2015 | Japan’s nuclear restart, summer quiet descends in the newsroom, and Geoff Brumfiel compares science reporting at Nature and NPR. | Nature | 00:19:57 |
| 20 Aug 2015 | China’s emissions are lower than we thought, lessons from Hurricane Katrina 10 years on, and inheriting genes - sideways. | Nature | 00:25:57 |
| 13 Aug 2015 | Making chemists' lives easier. Updating a centuries-old sunspot record. Anti-GM activists get their hands on scientists' inboxes | Nature | 00:16:21 |
| 6 Aug 2015 | Lessons from the Ebola epidemic,. Reproductive habits of ancient organisms. How the nuclear bomb changed stories about scientists | Nature | 00:25:35 |
| 30 Jul 2015 | This week, the ancient art of kirigami - paper cutting - applied to graphene. Plus, mini organs in dishes, and how mitochondria power our muscles. | Nature | 00:28:20 |
| Extra: Futures Jul 2015 | Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from Jul, 'Outpatient', by Dan Stout | Nature | 00:05:11 |
| Extra: Jul 2015 | Pluto in pictures. Ways to revamp science teaching. NASA’s underwater space-training mission. Listening for aliens. | Nature | 00:23:20 |
| 23 Jul 2015 | Eyedrops could replace surgery for cataracts. Twists and turns of RNA. Rice that could feed more & ease climate change | Nature | 00:27:00 |
| 16 Jul 2015 | Organic molecules in space. Treating traumatic brain injury. Training children to think like scientists | Nature | 00:27:29 |
| Extra - Beautiful Question | Is our universe beautiful? Do the fundamental laws that describe nature appeal to our aesthetic tastes? | Nature | 00:15:53 |
| 9 Jul 2015 | Geologists on quake alert. Stopping HIV in its tracks. Volcano wreaked havoc on the climate 1500 years ago | Nature | 00:28:33 |
| Extra: Futures Jun 2015 | Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from Jun, Heart worm, by J. J. Roth | Nature | 00:06:18 |
| 2 Jul 2015 | Lizards change sex in the heat. Complex eye in a single-celled creature. Teaching robots to be ethical | Nature | 00:26:50 |
| 24 Jun 2015 | Antarctica’s surprising biodiversity. Trends in heatwaves and coldsnaps. New way to diagnose cancer early | Nature | 00:25:35 |
| Extra: Jun 2015 | Jurassic World. Why species names matter. DNA from an ancient human throws up questions of heritage. | Nature | 00:26:48 |
| 18 Jun 2015 | Positive memories help fight depression. Plant intelligence. Measuring the mass of exo-planets | Nature | 00:26:40 |
| 11 Jun 2015 | US military’s biology arm. Bronze Age genomes. Deadly disease in Papua New Guinea | Nature | 00:27:17 |
| 4 Jun 2015 | How the immune system deals with the brain. Latest in gene editing. Greenland’s disappearing lakes | Nature | 00:26:08 |
| Extra: May 2015 | Robots that can recover from injury. Scientists faking their data. Weird places to look for antibiotics | Nature | 00:24:31 |
| Extra: Futures May 2015 | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite story from May, Tempus omnia revelat, by Tian Li. | Nature | 00:05:43 |
| 28 May 2015 | The ethics of killer robots. laser weapons become a reality. Subtleties of temperature. | Nature | 00:25:17 |
| In Search of Lost Sound | Exploring the science that allows us to resurrect the sounds of the past. | Nature | 00:23:30 |
| 21 May 2015 | The oldest stone tools yet found. Opiates from yeast and sugar. Perks of sex for beetles. | Nature | 00:27:23 |
| 14 May 2015 | Latest result from the Large Hadron Collider. Memoir from Oliver Sacks. India’s scientific landscape. | Nature | 00:28:46 |
| 7 May 2015 | Brain-inspired computers. Scientists working past retirement. Origins of complex cells from deep-sea samples | Nature | 00:25:51 |
| Extra: Futures | Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from Apr, Bread of life, by Beth Cato. | Nature | 00:00:00 |
| 30 Apr 2015 | This week, a tiny bat-like dinosaur, a competitor for graphene, and the best new science books this spring | Nature | 00:28:02 |
| Real life Dr Dolittles | Geoff Marsh meets researchers and animals who tackle the animal-human communication barrier | Nature | 00:29:30 |
| 23 Apr 2015 | A new treatment for Ebola. Making of the Tibetan plateau. Could bees be addicted to pesticides? | Nature | 00:24:45 |
| Backchat Apr 2015 | Periodic table’s fuzzy edges. Nuances of reporting on animal research. Overhyped coverage of a new battery | Nature | 00:22:43 |
| 16 Apr 2015 | How oxytocin affects the brain. Self experimentation in science. Wedding rings that went to Hubble | Nature | 00:30:28 |
| 9 Apr 2015 | The Moon and her sister. The Sun and its personality. Latest wonder material to hit the big-time. | Nature | 00:29:28 |
| 2 Apr 2015 | Improving walking. Pushing the boundary between quantum and classical. More social science on climate change | Nature | 00:28:31 |
| 26 Mar 2015 | The role of black holes in growing galaxies. Dragon’s Den for scientists. Ice inside our bodies | Nature | 00:27:59 |
| Extra: Backchat | Where will NASA’s next planetary mission go? Plus, a gene editing technique comes under fire, and the American editors’ biggest language gripes. | Nature | 00:21:10 |
| Extra: Futures | Geoff Marsh reads you his sci fi favourite from Mar, Perfection, by John Frizell. | Nature | 00:28:38 |
| 19 Mar 2015 | Bright light's protective effect on developing eyeballs. Early photography & science. British genome unveiled | Nature | 00:28:38 |
| Music and the Making of Science | Music’s influence on the development of modern science and the foundations of acoustics. | Nature | 00:24:06 |
| 12 Mar 2015 | How English became science's dominant language. Carbon capture gets a boost. How to define the Anthropocene | Nature | 00:29:15 |
| 5 Mar 2015 | Human family tree gets more tangled. Should universities invest in fossil fuels. Ebola’s impact | Nature | 00:27:31 |
| Extra: Futures | Noah Baker reads you his favourite from Feb, 'Good for something' by Deborah Walker. | Nature | 00:06:24 |
| Extra: Backchat | An 'intelligent' computer that can learn to play arcade games. The power of text mining. Ancient DNA & languages | Nature | 00:29:27 |
| 26 Feb 2015 | Preparing to meet Pluto. Food additives with health risks. Measuring pain in the brain | Nature | 00:29:32 |
| 19 Feb 2015 | The value of museum collections. How increasing winds could cause coastal dead-zones. Redefining sex | Nature | 00:29:50 |
| 12 Feb 2015 | Sequencing the genomes of Darwin's finches. Financial trading nears light speed. An ancient book of optics. | Nature | 00:29:10 |
| Flight path | Find out what airplane noise could mean for the health of those who have to hear it. | Nature | 00:24:24 |
| 05 Feb 2015 | Drought-resistance spray for plants. How tectonic plates slide around. Making lightweight steel stronger. | Nature | 00:25:54 |
| Extra: Futures | Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from Jan, The Descent of Man, by Christoph Weber. | Nature | 00:05:52 |
| 29 Jan 2015 | Israeli skull piece could be from a human hybrid. Revamping a classic physics experiment. Revolutionary archaeology | Nature | 00:27:26 |
| Extra: Backchat | Things lost and found in space. Could cancer be 'bad luck'? "Why didn't I think of that" experiments | Nature | 00:23:32 |
| 22 Jan 2015 | The restorative power of young blood. Cosmic hard drives. Improving the safety of genetically modified organisms | Nature | 00:29:34 |
| 15 Jan 2015 | What hibernation could tell about brain degeneration. A new journal about plants. Where to go if climate change claims your home | Nature | 00:27:08 |
| What It's Like to Be a Bat | In this episode of Nature’s sound science series: what bats can teach us about the limits of human perception. | Nature | 00:21:12 |
| 08 Jan 2015 | What to expect in 2015. Dwarf planet hunts. Reopening of the LHC. A new antibiotic. An estimate of scientists' coffee consumption | Nature | 00:26:10 |
| Extra: Futures | Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from Dec, Missed Message, by Rachel Reddick. | Nature | 00:05:09 |
| 18 Dec 2014 | What was hot in 2014, what cosmologists would like for Christmas, and charades - reworked for audio. | Nature | 00:27:31 |
| 11 Dec 2014 | Spider-inspired motion detectors. Scrutinizing the endangered species list. The recipe for cell reprogramming. | Nature | 00:29:33 |
| 04 Dec 2014 | Highly cultured birds. Shell art made by our ancestors. Will we ever make a quantum computer? | Nature | 00:28:44 |
| Extra: The Institute of Sexology | Geoff Marsh visits The Institute of Sexology for an interview with co-curator Honor Beddard. | Nature | 00:12:13 |
| Extra: Futures | Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from Nov, Ice and white roses, by Rebecca Birch | Nature | 00:05:55 |
| 27 Nov 2014 | Energy-free air conditioning. The science of sex laid bare. Scientists who peer-review themselves. | Nature | 00:27:00 |
| Extra: Backchat | Review of Interstellar. Waking up the comet-lander Philae. Considering a crowd-funded mission to the moon | Nature | 00:25:16 |
| 20 Nov 2014 | The dishonest culture of banking. Exhibition explores the Northwest Passage. A virus that benefits the body. | Nature | 00:28:38 |
| 13 Nov 2014 | Vegetarian diets promise a greener, healthier future. Plumbing the depths of depression. Black holes on the silver screen | Nature | 00:26:50 |
| 06 Nov 2014 | An ancient Madagascan mammal. The perception of taste. Lab-friendly particle accelerators. | Nature | 00:26:46 |
| Futures | Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from Oct. Dumpster Diving, by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. | Nature | 00:06:08 |
| 30 Oct 2014 | The most highly cited papers of all time. NASA’s plans to fetch an asteroid. Profiling the first lady of science writing | Nature | 00:27:29 |
| Extra: A Metre-Tall Mystery | Ten years ago a human-like fossil with a tiny brain was discovered. It transformed the story of human evolution | Nature | 00:25:27 |
| 23 Oct 2014 | This week, a dinosaur called "terrible hands" finally gets a body, exocomets in a nearby solar system and a ninth oxidation state breaks a chemistry record. | Nature | 00:28:11 |
| 16 Oct 2014 | Natural gas may not ease carbon dioxide levels, research subject mash-ups, and watching Alzheimer’s unfold. | Nature | 00:29:34 |
| Extra: Backchat | Nobel Prize excitement (and frustrations), and the world’s oldest cave art. | Nature | 00:23:55 |
| Maths in The Simpsons | David X Cohen, writer of The Simpsons, on the secret maths that has sneaked its way into the show over the years | Nature | 00:12:04 |
| 09 Oct 2014 | Ancient Indonesian cave art, Brightest objects in the Universe, and hidden mathematics in The Simpsons. | Nature | 00:27:47 |
| 02 Oct 2014 | The bugs that call our skin their home. Excessive water use in Asia. Crazy shapes on Moon's surface | Nature | 00:26:13 |
| Extra: Futures | Noah Baker reads you his favourite from Sep, The tiger waiting on the shore, by Paul Currion. | Nature | 00:07:37 |
| 25 Sep 2014 | How age affects birds migration. Lizards test biodiversity theories. Cosmology using 1000 common words | Nature | 00:25:56 |
| 18 Sep 2014 | Artificial sweeteners might cause glucose intolerance, striving for diversity in science, and our new podcast, Backchat | Nature | 00:25:19 |
| Extra: Backchat | Backchat brings you stories and opinion behind the science each month. On this pilot episode, Rosetta spacecraft excitement, the genetics of intelligence, and sociable scientists. | Nature | 00:27:23 |
| 11 Sep 2014 | Gibbon genome gives scientists something to swing about. Quest to cure blindness. Producing energy from renewables | Nature | 00:27:03 |
| 04 Sep 2014 | Sustainable farming. Gene editing for research and therapy. A fresh look at Aristotle’s science. | Nature | 00:29:39 |
| Extra: Futures | Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from Aug, The angle of the light on the bloodstained kitchen floor, by Matt Mikalatos. | Nature | 00:06:06 |
| 28 Aug 2014 | Fish that walk on land. Imaging using light that never touches. The microbes that make cheese. | Nature | 00:28:13 |
| 21 Aug 2014 | How seals took tuberculosis to the Americas. A better map of Neandertals in Europe. Microbial life beneath Antarctic ice | Nature | 00:12:00 |
| 14 Aug 2014 | Piles of rubble in space, a caution about epigenetics, pregnancy and blame, and the anatomy of an earthquake | Nature | 00:27:47 |
| 07 Aug 2014 | Corralling carbon nanotubes. Chemist’s dream machine. An artist who fakes scientific discoveries | Nature | 00:25:47 |
| Extra: Futures | Lizzie Gibney reads you her favourite from Jul, Benjy’s Birthday, by John Grant. | Nature | 00:05:29 |
| 31 Jul 2014 | Replaying evolution in the lab. Dam-busting to let rivers run free. When asteroids boiled the Earth’s oceans. | Nature | 00:24:26 |
| 24 Jul 2014 | Antarctic seal populations may be in peril. Ways to get energy from nuclear fusion. The genetics of puberty | Nature | 00:25:59 |
| 17 Jul 2014 | A wasting disorder of cancer patients. Studying the insides of giant planets. Measuring longitude on the high seas | Nature | 00:26:46 |
| 10 Jul 2014 | The STAP papers are retracted. A potential vaccine for fungus-afflicted frogs. High-res displays for wearable technology | Nature | 00:28:29 |
| Extra: Entertaining science | Hollywood often hires scientific advisors. What draws these scientists from the lab bench to a film set? | Nature | 00:08:34 |
| Extra: Futures | Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from Jun, 'Emancipation', by Joao Ramalho-Santos. | Nature | 00:04:25 |
| 03 Jul 2014 | Archaeopteryx skeleton has feathered trousers. Predicting teen binge drinkers. How WW 1 liberated women in science... | Nature | 00:26:59 |
| 26 Jun 2014 | Checking nuclear weapons without revealing secrets. Science power couple mixing research & romance. New solar cell technology | Nature | 00:26:59 |
| 19 Jun 2014 | A fight to outlaw unproven stem cell treatments, a look at Newton’s gravitational constant, and diabetes in Greenland | Nature | 00:25:43 |
| 12 Jun 2014 | The relationship between science and art. The 'magic' powering quantum computers. The genome of the fragrant eucalyptus | Nature | 00:26:28 |
| Extra | Michael Stacey reads you his favourite from May, Variations, by William Meikle. | Nature | 00:05:48 |
| 5 Jun 2014 | The mechanisms of memory, how malnutrition affects gut bacteria, and China flattens mountains to build cities. | Nature | 00:28:10 |
| 29 May 2014 | Cooking that kills. Fears of a post-antibiotic world. Measuring a proton to find where the antimatter has gone | Nature | 00:26:32 |
| 22 May 2014 | Antibiotic resistance in soil. Nervous system of the simple comb jelly. Making a baby with three people's DNA. | Nature | 00:25:57 |
| 15 May 2014 | Change baby-killing mice to caring dads. Using male cells & animals could bias results. Water loss in California may move mountains | Nature | 00:26:30 |
| Extra | Noah Baker reads you our favourite Sci Fi from Apr, Pop-ups, by Robert Dawson. | Nature | 00:06:04 |
| 08 May 2014 | Crowd-sourcing illuminates the retina. Reconstructing Universe's evolution. Semi-synthetic organism with man-made base pair | Nature | 00:26:29 |
| 01 May 2014 | The impact of two volcanic eruptions. Farmers research for better yields. Stem cells regenerate monkey hearts | Nature | 00:28:16 |
| 24 Apr 2014 | The function of the Y chromosome. Helping corals breed in climate change. The scientific life of Beatrix Potter | Nature | 00:25:02 |
| 17 Apr 2014 | How egg and sperm hook up, how the countryside benefits biodiversity, harnessing the sun's power. | Nature | 00:26:58 |
| Extra: The Man Who Couldn't Stop | David Adam talks about his experiences with OCD and sets out our current understanding of the condition | Nature | 00:14:21 |
| 10 Apr 2014 | Nasty parasite that eats cells alive. Ecological experiment floods Colorado River delta. Being an IPCC contributor | Nature | 00:26:23 |
| 3 Apr 2014 | Using the immune system to attack cancer. Mapping the prenatal brain. Fifty years on from the discovery of an ancient human species | Nature | 00:28:08 |
| Extra | Nature Physics' sci-fi story for Apr, 'The stuff we don't do,' by Marissa Lingen. | Nature | 00:05:03 |
| 27 Mar 2014 | How gastric band surgery works. A dwarf planet has a friend. A way to simplify quantum physics | Nature | 00:28:20 |
| 20 Mar 2014 | How a mother's deficiency impacts baby's immunity, why scientists improvise, new implant listens & talks to the brain... | Nature | 00:26:28 |
| PastCast: Mar 1918 | As World War 1 ends, Arthur Eddington sets out to prove Einstein's theory of general relativity by measuring a total eclipse | Nature | 00:16:03 |
| Extra | Colin Sullivan reads you his Feb favourite, 'Coffee in End Times,' by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Alex Shvartsman | Nature | 00:05:53 |
| 13 Mar 2014 | 13th century cosmologist predicted Big Bang. Ocean hidden deep in Earth's mantle. Predator effects on ecosystems | Nature | 00:27:02 |
| 6 Mar 2014 | Converting noisy radio signals into easy-to-measure lasers, sustainable livestock, courtly fly songs | Nature | 00:28:59 |
| 27 Feb 2014 | UV rays make cancer spread as well as form, Using crystallography to probe the deep Earth, Einstein's lost manuscript | Nature | 00:27:03 |
| PastCast: Feb 1925 | Raymond Dart found the face and brain cast of an extinct primate, but the paleontology community shunned the find | Nature | 00:12:01 |
| 20 Feb 2014 | Nicaragua's plans for a 'mega canal', Honeybee diseases in bumblebees & Invasive Asian carp in the Great Lakes | Nature | 00:28:11 |
| Extra: Neanderthal Man | In his new book, geneticist Svante Paabo reflects on his efforts to sequence the DNA of long-dead humans | Nature | 00:13:40 |
| 13 Feb 2014 | Colour evolution in the natural world, and Steps towards fusion energy and atomtronics. | Nature | 00:25:50 |
| Extra: The Perfect Theory | Einstein's general relativity theory hasn't always been fashionable. A new book talks of its past and future | Nature | 00:10:42 |
| 06 Feb 2014 | This week: superconductive graphene, sound tourism, and an Amazonian illusion. | Nature | 00:24:35 |
| Extra: Futures | Charlotte Stoddart reads you our favourite from Jan, Okami, by Grace Tang. | Nature | 00:06:36 |
| 30 Jan 2014 | A simple trick for making stem cells, one-poled magnets, and meeting a European hunter-gatherer through its genome | Nature | 00:32:59 |
| PastCast: Jan 1896 | x-rays, discovered by accident in 1896 by the German scientist William Roentgen. | Nature | 00:15:41 |
| 23 Jan 2014 | The rebirth of a fraudster, drivers of forest diversity, and why diamonds are a physicist's best friend | Nature | 00:27:30 |
| 16 Jan 2014 | Why birds fly in formation, how old trees are efficient carbon eaters, & cracking down on personal genomics | Nature | 00:27:26 |
| 09 Jan 2014 | Storing solar power in your basement, the colour of extinct sea monsters, & preventing violence at universities | Nature | 00:26:36 |
| PastCast: Dec 1920 | In the early 20th century physicists wondered if the world of small scale is continuous or built discrete | Nature | 00:12:29 |
| Extra: Futures | Kerri Smith reads you our favourite Sci Fi from Dec, Sibyl, by Deborah Walker. | Nature | 00:07:11 |
| 19 Dec 2013 | Comedian Andy Zaltzman talks pickles, Neanderthals, and the biggest science stories of 2013 | Nature | 00:44:44 |
| 12 Dec 2013 | Species grow old gracefully, what lizard breath reveals about dinosaurs, and ways to avoid shortages of isotopes crucial in hospitals | Nature | 00:28:09 |
| 05 Dec 2013 | DNA from an ancient human relative, origins of the moon & dangers of following the herd in peer reviews | Nature | 00:26:28 |
| Extra: Futures | Peter Cary reads you our favourite sci-fi from Nov, Immeasurable, by H. E. Roulo. | Nature | 00:06:09 |
| 28 Nov 2013 | The mind talks to the body, exploring complex molecule structures, & Collider exhibit at London's Science Museum | Nature | 00:21:57 |
| PastCast: Nov 1869 | The first issue of Nature opened with poetry and was for a general audience. How we began and grew | Nature | 00:13:42 |
| 21 Nov 2013 | Ancient genome clues to American ancestry, graphene researchers with a big EU grant & novel teenager research | Nature | 00:29:05 |
| Extra: Brave New World | 50 years after Aldous Huxley's death, what have we still to learn from his work? | Nature | 00:15:50 |
| 14 Nov 2013 | Treating infection when antibiotics fail, big groups are best at improving social skills, and mimicking effects of brain trauma | Nature | 00:27:45 |
| 7 Nov 2013 | The asteroid that shook a Russian town, the earliest indicator of autism in babies, and life with Parkinson's | Nature | 00:26:49 |
| The elephant in the room | A Swedish type specimen of the Asian elephant is called into question. Ewen Callaway on solving the mystery. | Nature | 00:15:42 |
| Extra: Serving the Reich | In his book Philip Ball explores how physics fared under the Nazis and the lessons for scientists of today | Nature | 00:17:06 |
| Extra: Futures | Ananyo Bhattacharya reads you his favourite Sci Fi from this month, Deep Impressions, by John Gilbey | Nature | 00:06:26 |
| 31 Oct 2013 | Treating chronic HIV, time travel in fiction and doing physics under the Nazis. | Nature | 00:25:28 |
| 24 Oct 2013 | Decoding brain activity to predict sight, remembering or dreaming, and the truth about the Tyrannosaurus rex. | Nature | 00:23:14 |
| 17 Oct 2013 | Nervous system of an ancient arthropod, comparing cancer genomes, & can publishing in a top tier journal change your life? | Nature | 00:27:23 |
| PastCast: Oct 1993 | In the early 90s, astrophysicists saw signs of life on a nearby planet. How we can tell if there's life out there. | Nature | 00:13:21 |
| 10 Oct 2013 | Creating clouds to ease climate change, a drug for multiple sclerosis, and was the Amazon once an orchard? | Nature | 00:25:48 |
| 03 Oct 2013 | How some of Mars' craters came from supervolcanoes, why scientific myths spread, particle accelerator on a chip | Nature | 00:25:42 |
| Extra: Futures | Kerri Smith reads her favourite from this month, The Rumination on What Isn't, by Alex Shvartsman | Nature | 00:04:03 |
| 26 Sep 2013 | A computer built from carbon nanotubes, Earth before tectonic plates, and tweaking genes to fight species extinction | Nature | 00:21:10 |
| PastCast: Sep 1963 | When a German geologist first suggested that continents move, people dismissed it as a wild idea. | Nature | 00:15:53 |
| 19 Sep 2013 | Sea level rise, lessons for climate change from the Great Plains, and the Drake Passage | Nature | 00:28:17 |
| 12 Sep 2013 | Making stem cells in living mice, retracing the footsteps of a frog-hunter, and what Stephen Hawking's new memoir reveals about him | Nature | 00:26:20 |
| Extra: Futures | Peter Cary reads you his favourite SciFi this month, Time Heals All Wounds, by Grace Tang | Nature | 00:06:15 |
| 05 Sep 2013 | Creating silver nano-particles, encrypting data with quantum mechanics and brain training games | Nature | 00:24:54 |
| 29 Aug 2013 | Tearing apart space-time, growing a tiny brain in the lab, metaphor in science, and a climate conundrum | Nature | 00:30:34 |
| 22 Aug 2013 | Singing stars reveal their vital stats, electricity helps plants heal, and making babies from skin cells | Nature | 00:25:58 |
| 15 Aug 2013 | Smart windows beat the heat, remembering things that didn't happen, and the magnetic field around our pet black hole | Nature | 00:26:54 |
| PastCast: Aug 1975 | Most best-selling drugs are based on monoclonal antibodies. We tell how basic science became blockbuster medicine | Nature | 00:18:36 |
| 08 Aug 2013 | Famous cells and genetic privacy, what oxytocin does in the brain, smart uses for metamaterials... | Nature | 00:27:57 |
| Extra: Robot relations | Janet Vertesi on how NASA attributes personalities to Mars rovers, and the effect on their mission | Nature | 00:11:41 |
| 01 Aug 2013 | Measuring temperature inside cells, how human ability to digest milk, and career moves to the Middle East | Nature | 00:26:42 |
| Extra: Futures | Henry Gee reads you his favourite from this month, 'The Ostracons of Europa', by Ken Hinckley. | Nature | 00:06:28 |
| 25 Jul 2013 | Superbugs resistant to antibiotics, how flatworms regrow heads and why the oil palm genome could be good for sustainable crop breeding | Nature | 00:26:32 |
| 18 Jul 2013 | Switching off the extra chromosome in Down's syndrome, using endless waves to explore quantum systems, and how online courses transform learning | Nature | 00:27:37 |
| 11 Jul 2013 | The deadly effect of species population drops, how plants become better at using water as CO2 rises, personality in synthesized voice | Nature | 00:26:57 |
| 04 Jul 2013 | Mining seedbanks for supercrops, how the two degree target isn't enough to tackle climate change, and building new organs from scratch | Nature | 00:26:41 |
| 27 Jun 2013 | The oldest genome ever sequenced, how elephants evolved from tree- to grass-eaters, and why humans are good at baseball | Nature | 00:27:02 |
| Extra | Henry Gee reads you his favourite SciFi this month, 'Mortar Flowers,' by Jessica May Lin | Nature | 00:05:50 |
| 20 Jun 2013 | Why naked mole rats are cancer-proof, why Martian meteorites don't look like the Martian surface, are quantum computers a reality? | Nature | 00:26:40 |
| Extra: Tutankhamun | Writer Jo Marant unravels the truth behind scientific studies of Tutankhamun's mummy | Nature | 00:14:55 |
| PastCast: Jun 1876 | In the late 1800s, Europe was gripped by 'gorilla fever'. A gorilla in Europe was rare, and in 1876 Nature heralds the arrival of one | Nature | 00:16:24 |
| 13 Jun 2013 | What lives under the sea floor, the mega-prizes turning scientists into millionaires, and how fast cheetahs actually run | Nature | 00:28:26 |
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