

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.
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May 18, 2017 • 29min
Nature Podcast: 18 May 2017
This week, wonky vehicle emissions tests, error-prone bots help humans, and animals that lack a microbiome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 10, 2017 • 30min
Nature Podcast: 11 May 2017
This week, fake antibodies scupper research, the diversity of cells in a tumour, and what happened before tectonic plates? SURVEY: https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/RmZVDI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 3, 2017 • 29min
Nature Podcast: 4 May 2017
This week, the secret life of the thalamus, how to talks about antibiotic resistance, and dangerous research. Survey link: https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/RmZVDI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 1, 2017 • 30min
Grand Challenges: Ageing
Ageing is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we're ready for it - as individuals, or as a society. A geneticist, a psychiatrist and an economist pick apart our knowledge of the ageing process and the major challenges to be solved so we can live healthily and well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 28, 2017 • 7min
Nature Extra: Futures April 2017
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from March, 'Cold comforts' by Graham Robert Scott. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 26, 2017 • 31min
Nature Podcast: 27 April 2017
This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe’s first ‘baby picture’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 21, 2017 • 24min
Backchat: April 2017
Science fans everywhere will take to the streets this weekend in the March for Science. Plus, biases in artificial intelligence and how scientific papers are getting harder to read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 12, 2017 • 29min
Nature Podcast: 13 April 2017
This week, politician scientists, human genetic ‘knockouts’ and East Antarctica’s instability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 5, 2017 • 29min
Nature Podcast: 6 April 2017
This week, easing the pressure on fisheries, protein structure surprises, and your reading list for 2017 so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 3, 2017 • 28min
Grand Challenges: Mental Health
Mental health disorders touch rich and poor, young and old, in every country around the world. Hear three experts discuss the evidence for interventions, how to get help to the right people, and which problem, if solved, would help the most. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.