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Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data. AIRS-LA is proud to present these links to the Nature Podcasts.

Current Nature Podcast Selections

Title	Podcast Description	Author/Reader	Duration
Nature: 11 March 2010	11 March: 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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