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Nature Podcast

The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of the Nature... Read more

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Coronapod: The state of the pandemic, six months in

Coronapod: The state of the pandemic, six months in

In a few weeks, we’ll be wrapping up Coronapod in its current form. Please fill out our short survey to let us know your... Read more

26 Jun 2020

32mins

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Grand Challenges: Food security

Grand Challenges: Food security

Millions around the world are chronically hungry. Three experts on agriculture discuss how to help people grow enough fo... Read more

5 Jun 2017

24mins

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Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory

Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory

Where did the SARS-CoV-2 virus come from? As a team of researchers from the WHO prepares to report on its investigation ... Read more

5 Mar 2021

18mins

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Nature Podcast: 16 June 2016

Nature Podcast: 16 June 2016

This week, pimping proteins, adapting enzymes, and conserving coral reefs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo... Read more

15 Jun 2016

29mins

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Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough

Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough

In this Podcast Extra, we speak to John B Goodenough, from the University of Texas at Austin, in the US. Today, John was... Read more

9 Oct 2019

4mins

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Nature Podcast: 21 May 2015

Nature Podcast: 21 May 2015

The oldest stone tools yet found, making opiates from yeast and sugar, and the perks of sex… for beetles. Hosted on Acas... Read more

20 May 2015

27mins

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26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image

26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image

This week, the ethical questions raised by model minds, and an updated view on an enzyme that keeps chromosomes protecte... Read more

25 Apr 2018

20mins

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Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music.    Hosted on Acast. See... Read more

14 Jun 2017

29mins

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Nature PastCast, December 1920: The Quantum Theory

Nature PastCast, December 1920: The Quantum Theory

This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our PastCas... Read more

27 Dec 2019

12mins

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Nature Podcast: 6 July 2017

Nature Podcast: 6 July 2017

This week, a new kind of quantum bit, the single-cell revolution, and exploring Antarctica’s past to understand sea leve... Read more

5 Jul 2017

27mins

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Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus

Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus

What’s the endgame for the COVID-19 pandemic? Is a world without SARS-CoV-2 possible, or is the virus here to stay?A rec... Read more

19 Feb 2021

16mins

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Nature Podcast: 4 May 2017

Nature Podcast: 4 May 2017

This week, the secret life of the thalamus, how to talks about antibiotic resistance, and dangerous research. Survey lin... Read more

3 May 2017

28mins

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6 September 2018: Space junk, and a physicist’s perspective on life

6 September 2018: Space junk, and a physicist’s perspective on life

This week, keeping an eye on space junk, and how a physicist changed our understanding of life. Hosted on Acast. See aca... Read more

5 Sep 2018

23mins

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16 August 2018: Bumblebees, opioids, and ocean weather

16 August 2018: Bumblebees, opioids, and ocean weather

This week, more worries for bees, modelling the opioid crisis, and rough weather for seas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co... Read more

15 Aug 2018

29mins

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Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on

Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on

Looking back at the publication of the human genome, and how macrophages mend muscle.In this episode:00:45 The human gen... Read more

10 Feb 2021

27mins

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Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

This week, treating infection without antibiotics, wireless charging, and making sense of music. Hosted on Acast. See ac... Read more

14 Jun 2017

29mins

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Why skin grows bigger as you stretch it

Why skin grows bigger as you stretch it

Skin's unusual response to stretching is finally explained, and the latest in a huge effort to map DNA.In this episode:0... Read more

29 Jul 2020

33mins

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Nature Podcast: 25 May 2017

Nature Podcast: 25 May 2017

This week, E. coli with colour vision, tracing the Zika virus outbreak, and a roadmap for medical microbots. Hosted on A... Read more

24 May 2017

27mins

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Audiofile: In search of lost sound

Audiofile: In search of lost sound

Are the sounds of the past lost forever? In the 1960s, an American engineer proposed that sound could be recorded into c... Read more

26 May 2015

23mins

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02 August 2018: Zebra finch colour perception, terraforming Mars, and attributing extreme weather

02 August 2018: Zebra finch colour perception, terraforming Mars, and attributing extreme weather

This week, how a bird sees colour, potential problems with terraforming Mars, and linking extreme weather to our changin... Read more

1 Aug 2018

32mins

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