Nature Podcast
Summary: 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 featuring highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. For complete access to the original papers featured in the Nature Podcast, subscribe to Nature.
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Backchat brings you the stories and opinion behind the science each month. On this pilot episode, Rosetta spacecraft excitement, the genetics of intelligence, and sociable scientists.
11 September: This week, the gibbon genome gives scientists something to swing about, the quest to cure blindness, and the country producing the most energy from renewables.
04 September: This week, sustainable farming to feed a hungry world, gene editing for research and therapy, and a fresh look at Aristotle’s science.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from August, The angle of the light on the bloodstained kitchen floor, by Matt Mikalatos.
28 August: This week, fish that walk on land, imaging something using light that never touched it, and the microbes that make cheese.
21 August: This week, how seals took tuberculosis to the Americas, a better map of Neanderthals in Europe, and microbial life lurking beneath the Antarctic ice.
14 August: This week, piles of rubble in space, a caution about epigenetics, pregnancy and blame, and the anatomy of an earthquake.
07 August: This week, corralling carbon nanotubes, a chemist’s dream machine, and an exhibition about an artist who fakes scientific discoveries.
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Lizzie Gibney reads you her favourite from July, Benjy's Birthday, by John Grant.
31 July: This week, replaying evolution in the lab, dam-busting to let rivers run free, and the time when asteroids boiled the Earth’s oceans.
24 July: This week, a long study of Antarctic seals shows their populations may be in peril, alternative ways of getting energy from nuclear fusion, and researchers tackle the genetics of puberty.
17 July: This week, the protein behind a wasting disorder affecting cancer patients, squeezing diamond to learn about the insides of giant planets, and an exhibition charts the quest to measure longitude on the high seas.
10 July: This week, the STAP papers are retracted, a potential vaccine for fungus-afflicted frogs, and high-res displays for wearable technology.
Hollywood film and television producers often call upon scientific advisors to bring credibility to the screen. But what draws these scientists from the lab bench to a film set?
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Kerri Smith reads you her favourite from June, Emancipation, by Joao Ramalho-Santos.
