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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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.
Jan 18, 2017 • 31min
Nature Podcast: 19 January 2017
This week, communication between viruses, reproducing cancer studies, and explaining ‘fairy circles’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 13, 2017 • 16min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - January 1896
Physics in the late nineteenth century was increasingly concerned with things that couldn't be seen. From these invisible realms shot x-rays, discovered by accident by the German scientist William Röntgen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 11, 2017 • 23min
Nature Podcast: 12 January 2017
This week, ridding New Zealand of rats, making choices in the grocery store, and what to expect in 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 21, 2016 • 39min
Nature Podcast: 22 December 2016
It’s our bumper end-of-year show, with a 2016 round-up, holiday reading picks, science carols, word games and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 14, 2016 • 30min
Nature Podcast: 15 December 2016
This week, a spray that boosts plant growth and resilience, 3-million-year old hominin footprints, and the seahorse genome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 9, 2016 • 13min
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - December 1920
In the early twentieth century physicists had become deeply entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Was the world at its smallest scales continuous, or built of discrete units? It all began with Max Planck. His Nobel Prize was the subject of a Nature news article in 1920. Originally aired 19/12/2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
