Nature Podcast

This week, making plane fuel greener, yeast chromosomes synthesised from scratch, and seeking out hidden HIV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the First World War draws to an end, astronomer Arthur Eddington sets out on a challenging mission: to prove Einstein’s new theory of general relativity by measuring a total eclipse. The experiment became a defining example of how science should be done. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the earliest known life, Neanderthal self-medication, and data storage in a single atom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a migration special: a researcher seeks refuge; smart borders; and climate migration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.