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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.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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