Nature Podcast
Springer Nature Limited
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 journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Mar 1, 2017 • 22min
Backchat: February 2017
AI generated images, reporting with reluctant sources and space missions with out an end game. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 27, 2017 • 4min
Nature Extra: Futures February 2017
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell and Richard Hodson read you their favourite from February, 'Fermi's zookeepers' by David Gullen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 22, 2017 • 28min
Nature Podcast: 23 February 2017
This week, highlights from AAAS, the new epigenetics, and a new way to conduct biomedical research Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 15, 2017 • 28min
Nature Podcast: 16 February 2017
This week, Winston Churchill’s thoughts on alien life, how cells build walls, and paradoxical materials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 10, 2017 • 12min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 8, 2017 • 31min
Nature Podcast: 9 February 2017
This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 1, 2017 • 29min
Nature Podcast: 2 February 2017
Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 31, 2017 • 6min
Nature Extra: Futures January 2017
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 27, 2017 • 23min
Backchat: January 2017
Moonshots, frameworks, catapults – how best to name your science project? Plus, the implications for science of Trump’s first days in office, and the perils of trying to reproduce others’ work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 25, 2017 • 31min
Nature Podcast: 26 January 2017
This week, outer space law, predictive policing and enhancing the wisdom of the crowds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
