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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Aug 26, 2015 • 12min
Podcast Extra: The Invention of Science
In his new book, historian David Wootton takes us back to the scientific revolution around the turn of the 17th Century, and asks: was this really when modern science was born? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 26, 2015 • 28min
Nature Podcast: 27 August 2015
This week, a new look at the scientific revolution, accelerating positrons on a plasma wave, and squashing the unsquashable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 21, 2015 • 20min
Nature Extra: Backchat August 2015
Japan’s nuclear restart, summer quiet descends in the newsroom, and our special guest Geoff Brumfiel compares science reporting at Nature and NPR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 18, 2015 • 26min
Nature Podcast: 20 August 2015
This week, China’s emissions are lower than we thought, lessons from Hurricane Katrina 10 years on, and inheriting genes… sideways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 12, 2015 • 16min
Nature Podcast: 13 August 2015
This week, making chemists’ lives easier, updating a centuries-old sunspot record, and anti-GM activists get their hands on scientists’ inboxes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 5, 2015 • 26min
Nature Podcast: 6 August 2015
This week, lessons to learn from the Ebola epidemic, the reproductive habits of ancient organisms, and how the nuclear bomb changed the stories we tell about scientists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 29, 2015 • 28min
Nature Podcast: 30 July 2015
This week, the ancient art of kirigami – paper cutting – applied to graphene. Plus, mini organs in dishes, and how mitochondria power our muscles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 27, 2015 • 5min
Nature Extra: Futures July 2015
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from July, Outpatient, by Dan Stout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 24, 2015 • 23min
Nature Extra: Backchat July 2015
Pluto in pictures, ways to revamp science teaching, NASA’s underwater space-training mission, and listening for aliens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 22, 2015 • 27min
Nature Podcast: 23 July 2015
This week, eyedrops could replace surgery for cataracts, the twists and turns of RNA, and a strain of rice that could feed more people and ease climate change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
