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Three weeks in a hide to spot one elusive bear: the life of a wildlife film-maker

11 juli | 13 min

Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases

9 juli | 37 min

Audio long read: How to speak to a vaccine sceptic — research reveals what works

4 juli | 16 min

3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

2 juli | 27 min

Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance

25 juni | 32 min

Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight

18 juni | 31 min

Hundreds of physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party

13 juni | 9 min

This stretchy neural implant grows with an axolotl's brain

11 juni | 37 min

Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan

6 juni | 12 min

Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron

4 juni | 30 min

Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky

30 maj | 16 min

AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?

28 maj | 20 min

These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people

21 maj | 32 min

How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van

14 maj | 31 min

NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones

12 maj | 11 min

Herring population loses migration 'memory' after heavy fishing

7 maj | 38 min

The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?

30 april | 28 min

Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?

25 april | 18 min

A brand-new colour created by lasers, a pig-liver transplant trial gets the green light, and a nugget-sized chunk of lab-grown meat

23 april | 20 min

‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers

22 april | 33 min

What a trove of potato genomes reveals about the humble spud

16 april | 33 min

Long-awaited ape genomes give new insights into their evolution — and ours

9 april | 30 min

From Hippocrates to COVID-19: the scientific fight to prove diseases can be airborne

7 april | 32 min

Trump team removes senior NIH chiefs in shock move

4 april | 12 min

World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery

2 april | 38 min

Audio long read: How quickly are you ageing? What molecular ‘clocks’ can tell you about your health

28 mars | 18 min

New lasso-shaped antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria

26 mars | 33 min

Tiny satellite sets new record for secure quantum communication

19 mars | 31 min

Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin

12 mars | 33 min

Earliest crafted bone tools date back 1.5 million years

5 mars | 30 min

Audio long read: Why kids need to take more risks — science reveals the benefits of wild, free play

28 februari | 16 min

If your heart stops, this smartwatch-AI can call for help

26 februari | 20 min

Racist ratings linger in five-star systems — a thumbs up could fix that

19 februari | 32 min

Record-breaking neutrino detected by huge underwater telescope

12 februari | 35 min

From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science

7 februari | 35 min

Kids' real-world arithmetic skills don't transfer to the classroom

5 februari | 35 min

The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?

31 januari | 17 min

Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life

29 januari | 35 min

What's the best way to become a professor? The answer depends on where you are

22 januari | 33 min

AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites

15 januari | 34 min

A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed

8 januari | 26 min

Science in 2025: what to expect this year

1 januari | 11 min

Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career

27 december 2024 | 12 min

The Nature Podcast highlights of 2024

25 december 2024 | 50 min

Behind the scenes of Nature News and Views in 2024

20 december 2024 | 25 min

The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2024

18 december 2024 | 37 min

Should offensive species names be changed? The organisms that honour dictators, racists and criminals

16 december 2024 | 53 min

Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice

11 december 2024 | 29 min

Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter

9 december 2024 | 28 min

Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period

4 december 2024 | 30 min

Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?

29 november 2024 | 13 min

Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance

27 november 2024 | 32 min

Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut

20 november 2024 | 29 min

Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing

13 november 2024 | 35 min

’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station

8 november 2024 | 26 min

Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different types

6 november 2024 | 28 min

REBROADCAST: Talking politics, talking science

3 november 2024 | 24 min

REBROADCAST: Politics of the life scientific

2 november 2024 | 25 min

REBROADCAST: A brief history of politics and science

1 november 2024 | 29 min

How to recover from the trauma of a climate disaster

30 oktober 2024 | 35 min

Audio long read: Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate

25 oktober 2024 | 19 min

Massive lost mountain cities revealed by lasers

23 oktober 2024 | 30 min

Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator

16 oktober 2024 | 30 min

This AI powered 'tongue' can tell Coke and Pepsi apart

9 oktober 2024 | 39 min

Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time

2 oktober 2024 | 31 min

Audio long read: A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer

27 september 2024 | 20 min

Children with Down's syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint at why

25 september 2024 | 22 min

Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories

18 september 2024 | 34 min

Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory

11 september 2024 | 42 min

The baseless stat that could be harming Indigenous conservation efforts

6 september 2024 | 14 min

Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer

4 september 2024 | 31 min

Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

30 augusti 2024 | 18 min

Covert racism in AI chatbots, precise Stone Age engineering, and the science of paper cuts

28 augusti 2024 | 21 min

Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains

22 augusti 2024 | 31 min

AI can't learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that

21 augusti 2024 | 20 min

The mystery of Stonehenge's central stone unearthed

14 augusti 2024 | 23 min

ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it

9 augusti 2024 | 37 min

Where weird plants thrive: aridity spurs diversity of traits

7 augusti 2024 | 26 min

How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs

31 juli 2024 | 33 min

Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life

26 juli 2024 | 23 min

Rapid sepsis test identifies bacteria that spark life-threatening infection

24 juli 2024 | 35 min

The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost

17 juli 2024 | 28 min

Breastfeeding should break down mothers' bones — here's why it doesn't

10 juli 2024 | 27 min

These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus

3 juli 2024 | 37 min

Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026

28 juni 2024 | 15 min

Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat

26 juni 2024 | 18 min

How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer

19 juni 2024 | 32 min

Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity

12 juni 2024 | 38 min

Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinformation

5 juni 2024 | 28 min

How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets

29 maj 2024 | 23 min

How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists

28 maj 2024 | 37 min

Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models

24 maj 2024 | 18 min

Fentanyl addiction: the brain pathways behind the opioid crisis

22 maj 2024 | 20 min

Lizard-inspired building design could save lives

15 maj 2024 | 31 min

Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade

8 maj 2024 | 22 min

Talking about sex and gender doesn't need to be toxic

2 maj 2024 | 59 min

Dad's microbiome can affect offsprings' health — in mice

1 maj 2024 | 25 min

Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health

26 april 2024 | 15 min

How gliding marsupials got their 'wings'

24 april 2024 | 29 min

Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why

19 april 2024 | 38 min

Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory

17 april 2024 | 34 min

The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation

10 april 2024 | 23 min

Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

5 april 2024 | 16 min

Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg

3 april 2024 | 25 min

How climate change is affecting global timekeeping

27 mars 2024 | 27 min

AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs

20 mars 2024 | 30 min

Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why

13 mars 2024 | 27 min

These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment

6 mars 2024 | 37 min

Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?

28 februari 2024 | 26 min

Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them

26 februari 2024 | 25 min

How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved

23 februari 2024 | 14 min

Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test

21 februari 2024 | 31 min

Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting

14 februari 2024 | 22 min

Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer

9 februari 2024 | 15 min

Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells

7 februari 2024 | 35 min

Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how

4 februari 2024 | 17 min

Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools

31 januari 2024 | 29 min

Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why

26 januari 2024 | 12 min

Toxic red mud could be turned into 'green' steel

24 januari 2024 | 25 min

This AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?

17 januari 2024 | 32 min

The science stories you missed over the holiday period

10 januari 2024 | 30 min

Science in 2024: what to expect this year

3 januari 2024 | 14 min

Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy?

29 december 2023 | 24 min

The Nature Podcast highlights of 2023

27 december 2023 | 45 min

How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem

22 december 2023 | 38 min

The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2023

20 december 2023 | 45 min

Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields

15 december 2023 | 35 min

Inhaled vaccine prevents COVID in monkeys

14 december 2023 | 8 min

Cat parasite Toxoplasma tricked to grow in a dish

13 december 2023 | 26 min

The world’s smallest light-trapping silicon cavity

6 december 2023 | 31 min

Sanitary products made from plants could help tackle period poverty

30 november 2023 | 9 min

Why COP28 probably won't keep the 1.5 degree dream alive

29 november 2023 | 26 min

Audio long read: Apple revival — how science is bringing historic varieties back to life

24 november 2023 | 18 min

Polio could be eradicated within 3 years — what happens then?

22 november 2023 | 22 min

Dust: the tiny substance with enormous power

17 november 2023 | 27 min

How to 3D print fully-formed robots

15 november 2023 | 27 min

How to tame a toxic yet life-saving antifungal

8 november 2023 | 28 min

Nature's Take: How will ChatGPT and generative AI transform research?

3 november 2023 | 30 min

A new hydrogel can be directly injected into muscle to help it regenerate

1 november 2023 | 23 min

Audio long read: Why BMI is flawed — and how to redefine obesity

30 oktober 2023 | 12 min

Martian sounds reveal the secrets of the red planet's core

27 oktober 2023 | 13 min

Sounds of recovery: AI helps monitor wildlife during forest restoration

25 oktober 2023 | 25 min

An anti-CRISPR system that helps save viruses from destruction

18 oktober 2023 | 30 min

Gene edits move pig organs closer to human transplantation

11 oktober 2023 | 21 min

'This doesn't just fall on women': computer scientists reflect on gender biases in STEM

10 oktober 2023 | 15 min

Astronomers are worried by a satellite brighter than most stars

4 oktober 2023 | 34 min

Audio long read: These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance

29 september 2023 | 20 min

This isn't the Nature Podcast — how deepfakes are distorting reality

27 september 2023 | 31 min

Why does cancer spread to the spine? Newly discovered stem cells might be the key

20 september 2023 | 24 min

A mussel-inspired glue for more sustainable sticking

13 september 2023 | 34 min

Our ancestors lost nearly 99% of their population, 900,000 years ago

6 september 2023 | 14 min

Physicists finally observe strange isotope Oxygen 28 – raising fundamental questions

30 augusti 2023 | 29 min

Audio long read: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

25 augusti 2023 | 26 min

Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech

23 augusti 2023 | 29 min

Fruit flies' ability to sense magnetic fields thrown into doubt

16 augusti 2023 | 32 min

Racism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal mortality crisis

10 augusti 2023 | 45 min

How welcome are refugees in Europe? A giant study has some answers

9 augusti 2023 | 26 min

How to get more women in science, with Athene Donald

2 augusti 2023 | 32 min

Audio long read: Lab mice go wild — making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain

31 juli 2023 | 15 min

Facebook ‘echo chamber’ has little impact on polarized views, according to study

27 juli 2023 | 10 min

AI-enhanced night-vision lets users see in the dark

26 juli 2023 | 21 min

Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal

19 juli 2023 | 25 min

ChatGPT can write a paper in an hour — but there are downsides

12 juli 2023 | 15 min

Even a 'minimal cell' can grow stronger, thanks to evolution

5 juli 2023 | 29 min

Audio long read: ‘Almost magical’ — chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core

30 juni 2023 | 19 min

Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages

28 juni 2023 | 30 min

Why bladder cancer cells that shed their Y chromosome become more aggressive

21 juni 2023 | 29 min

What IBM's result means for quantum computing

14 juni 2023 | 30 min

A brain circuit for infanticide, in mice

7 juni 2023 | 32 min

AI identifies gene interactions to speed up search for treatment targets

31 maj 2023 | 21 min

Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

26 maj 2023 | 17 min

‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost

24 maj 2023 | 23 min

JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail

17 maj 2023 | 30 min

Nature's Take: Can Registered Reports help tackle publication bias?

12 maj 2023 | 26 min

‘Pangenome’ aims to capture the breadth of human diversity

10 maj 2023 | 21 min

Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up

3 maj 2023 | 41 min

Audio long read: Conquering Alzheimer’s — a look at the therapies of the future

28 april 2023 | 18 min

How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten

26 april 2023 | 34 min

A smarter way to melt down plastics?

19 april 2023 | 21 min

How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden

14 april 2023 | 24 min

Octopuses hunt by 'tasting' with their suckers

12 april 2023 | 27 min

Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form

5 april 2023 | 32 min

Audio long read: What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting

31 mars 2023 | 12 min

Bacterial ‘syringes’ could inject drugs directly into human cells

29 mars 2023 | 25 min

How to make driverless cars safer — expose them to lots of dangerous drivers

22 mars 2023 | 19 min

How to build a virus-proof cell

15 mars 2023 | 32 min

How the Australian wildfires devastated the ozone layer

8 mars 2023 | 27 min

How an increased heart rate could induce anxiety in mice

1 mars 2023 | 19 min

Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science

27 februari 2023 | 26 min

Audio long read: How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity

24 februari 2023 | 16 min

A twisting microscope that could unlock the secrets of 2D materials

22 februari 2023 | 29 min

How 'metadevices' could make electronics faster

15 februari 2023 | 30 min

This mysterious space rock shouldn’t have a ring — but it does

8 februari 2023 | 28 min

How mummies were prepared: Ancient Egyptian pots spill secrets

1 februari 2023 | 30 min

Audio long read: The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers

30 januari 2023 | 18 min

Amino acid slows nerve damage from diabetes, in mouse study

25 januari 2023 | 19 min

Laser 'lightning rod' diverts strikes high in the Alps

18 januari 2023 | 20 min

The science stories you missed over the past four weeks

11 januari 2023 | 24 min

Science in 2023: what to expect this year

6 januari 2023 | 15 min

The Nature Podcast’s highlights of 2022

28 december 2022 | 51 min

The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2022

21 december 2022 | 35 min

COVID deaths: three times the official toll

14 december 2022 | 29 min

Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old ecosystem

7 december 2022 | 18 min

Gaia Vince on how climate change will shape where people live

2 december 2022 | 26 min

Mysterious fluid from ant pupae helps feed colony

30 november 2022 | 20 min

Audio long read: Science and the World Cup — how big data is transforming football

25 november 2022 | 16 min

The satellite-free alternative to GPS

23 november 2022 | 24 min

How a key Alzheimer's gene wreaks havoc in the brain

16 november 2022 | 28 min

Audio long read: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?

14 november 2022 | 31 min

Molecular cages sift 'heavy' water from near-identical H2O

9 november 2022 | 25 min

Audio long read: The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby

4 november 2022 | 20 min

Flies can move their rigid, omnidirectional eyes – a little

2 november 2022 | 30 min

Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine

28 oktober 2022 | 40 min

Ancient DNA reveals family of Neanderthals living in Siberian cave

26 oktober 2022 | 23 min

Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease

12 oktober 2022 | 18 min

Virtual library of LSD-like drugs could reveal new antidepressants

5 oktober 2022 | 19 min

Nature's Take: How the war in Ukraine is impacting science

3 oktober 2022 | 21 min

Audio long read: What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns

30 september 2022 | 23 min

A trove of ancient fish fossils helps trace the origin of jaws

28 september 2022 | 19 min

Huge dataset shows 80% of US professors come from just 20% of institutions

21 september 2022 | 20 min

Complex synthetic cells bring scientists closer to artificial cellular life

14 september 2022 | 20 min

Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation

7 september 2022 | 22 min

Audio long read: Hybrid brains – the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals

26 augusti 2022 | 24 min

How to make water that's full of holes

24 augusti 2022 | 31 min

Do protons have intrinsic charm? New evidence suggests yes

17 augusti 2022 | 22 min

Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution

15 augusti 2022 | 25 min

Why low temperatures could help starve tumours of fuel

10 augusti 2022 | 22 min

Massive Facebook study reveals a key to social mobility

3 augusti 2022 | 23 min

Coronapod: the open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity

29 juli 2022 | 35 min

How humans adapted to digest lactose — after thousands of years of milk drinking

27 juli 2022 | 28 min

How researchers have pinpointed the origin of 'warm-blooded' mammals

20 juli 2022 | 29 min

Ancient mud reveals the longest record of climate from the tropics

13 juli 2022 | 29 min

Higgs boson at 10: a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle

11 juli 2022 | 22 min

Coronapod: detecting COVID variants in sewage

8 juli 2022 | 11 min

Higgs boson turns ten: the mysteries physicists are still trying to solve

6 juli 2022 | 30 min

Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses

1 juli 2022 | 29 min

Norovirus could spread through saliva: a new route for infection?

29 juni 2022 | 30 min

Audio long read: These six countries are about to go to the Moon

27 juni 2022 | 19 min

Coronapod: USA authorises vaccines for youngest of kids

24 juni 2022 | 22 min

How science can tackle inequality

22 juni 2022 | 32 min

How the Black Death got its start

15 juni 2022 | 32 min

Coronapod: COVID and smell loss, what the science says

11 juni 2022 | 20 min

Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting

8 juni 2022 | 18 min

Audio long read: The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch

6 juni 2022 | 22 min

Robot exercises shoulder cells for better tissue transplants

1 juni 2022 | 26 min

Coronapod: 'A generational loss' - COVID's devastating impact on education

30 maj 2022 | 14 min

X-ray analysis hints at answers to fossil mystery

25 maj 2022 | 27 min

How galaxies could exist without dark matter

18 maj 2022 | 28 min

Coronapod: 'viral ghosts' support idea that SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs could be behind long COVID

13 maj 2022 | 14 min

Retinas revived after donor's death open door to new science

11 maj 2022 | 25 min

Swapping in a bit of microbial 'meat' has big eco-gains

4 maj 2022 | 25 min

Coronapod: COVID and diabetes, what the science says

29 april 2022 | 10 min

How virtual meetings can limit creative ideas

27 april 2022 | 24 min

Audio long-read: The quest to prevent MS — and understand other post-viral diseases

25 april 2022 | 18 min

We could still limit global warming to just 2˚C — but there's an 'if'

20 april 2022 | 19 min

Coronapod: Infected immune cells hint at cause of severe COVID

15 april 2022 | 11 min

Why do naked mole rats live as long as giraffes?

13 april 2022 | 28 min

Five years in the coldest fridge in the known Universe

6 april 2022 | 26 min

Audio long-read: A more-inclusive genome project aims to capture all of human diversity

5 april 2022 | 19 min

Winding roads could make you a better navigator

30 mars 2022 | 28 min

Milky Way's origin story revealed by 250,000 stars

23 mars 2022 | 29 min

Coronapod: How vaccine complacency is plaguing 'COVID zero' strategies

18 mars 2022 | 14 min

The coin toss of Alzheimer's inheritance

17 mars 2022 | 15 min

The vest that can hear your heartbeat

16 mars 2022 | 27 min

The AI that deciphers ancient Greek graffiti

9 mars 2022 | 28 min

Coronapod: why stopping COVID testing would be a mistake

4 mars 2022 | 17 min

COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises

2 mars 2022 | 30 min

Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers

28 februari 2022 | 23 min

Dinosaur-destroying asteroid struck in spring

23 februari 2022 | 25 min

Tongan volcano eruption leaves scientists with unanswered questions

16 februari 2022 | 25 min

Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine

11 februari 2022 | min

RNA test detects deadly pregnancy disorder early

9 februari 2022 | min

Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID

4 februari 2022 | min

Weirdly flowing water finally has an explanation: 'quantum friction'

2 februari 2022 | min

Coronapod: Why T cells have been overlooked

28 januari 2022 | min

How can battery-powered aircraft get off the ground?

26 januari 2022 | min

Audio long read: Is precision public health the future — or a contradiction?

24 januari 2022 | min

Coronapod: COVID death toll is likely millions more than official counts

21 januari 2022 | min

Why mutation is not as random as we thought

19 januari 2022 | min

Podcast Extra: Recreating the lost sounds of spring

14 januari 2022 | min

Webb Space Telescope makes history after tense launch

12 januari 2022 | min

Science in 2022: what to expect this year

5 januari 2022 | min

Audio long-read: The secret lives of cells — as never seen before

31 december 2021 | 16 min

Our podcast highlights of 2021

29 december 2021 | 36 min

The Nature Podcast annual holiday spectacular

22 december 2021 | 34 min

Coronapod: Omicron - your questions answered

17 december 2021 | 32 min

Pluto's strange ice patterns explained by new theory

15 december 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: vaccines and long COVID, how protected are you?

10 december 2021 | 18 min

How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science

8 december 2021 | 28 min

Coronapod: How has COVID impacted mental health?

3 december 2021 | 12 min

What’s the best diet for people and the planet?

1 december 2021 | 27 min

Audio long-read: The chase for fusion energy

29 november 2021 | 23 min

Coronapod: everything we know about the new COVID variant

26 november 2021 | 9 min

Researcher careers under the microscope: salary satisfaction and COVID impacts

24 november 2021 | 23 min

Sea squirts teach new lessons in evolution

17 november 2021 | 25 min

Coronapod: new hope from COVID antiviral drugs

12 november 2021 | 18 min

The past and future of the Earth's climate

10 november 2021 | 18 min

Audio long-read: How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?

8 november 2021 | 20 min

Podcast special: onboard the climate train to COP26

3 november 2021 | 20 min

China’s COVID vaccines have been crucial — now immunity is waning

29 oktober 2021 | 15 min

Genomics unwraps mystery of the Tarim mummies

27 oktober 2021 | 28 min

Coronapod: can scientists harness COVID super-immunity?

25 oktober 2021 | 16 min

Viking presence in the Americas pinpointed by ancient solar storm

20 oktober 2021 | 35 min

Coronapod: the COVID scientists facing violent threats

18 oktober 2021 | 17 min

How electric acupuncture zaps inflammation in mice

13 oktober 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: new data affirms the benefits of air filters and masks

10 oktober 2021 | 11 min

The AI that accurately predicts the chances of rain

6 oktober 2021 | 26 min

Starting up in science: behind the scenes

29 september 2021 | 24 min

Starting up in science: Episode 4

29 september 2021 | 18 min

Starting up in science: Episode 3

29 september 2021 | 13 min

Starting up in science: Episode 2

29 september 2021 | 13 min

Starting up in science: Episode 1

29 september 2021 | 11 min

Audio long-read: Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef?

27 september 2021 | 16 min

Coronapod: solving the COVID vaccine manufacturing problem

25 september 2021 | 21 min

The floating sensors inspired by seeds

22 september 2021 | 19 min

How to help feed the world with 'Blue Foods'

15 september 2021 | 22 min

The billion years missing from Earth’s history

8 september 2021 | 14 min

Dead trees play an under-appreciated role in climate change

1 september 2021 | 30 min

Audio long-read: why sports concussions are worse for women

25 augusti 2021 | 14 min

Coronapod: How Delta is changing the game

21 augusti 2021 | 14 min

What’s the isiZulu for dinosaur? How science neglected African languages

18 augusti 2021 | 33 min

Coronapod: COVID boosters amidst global vaccine inequity

14 augusti 2021 | 19 min

The brain cells that help animals navigate in 3D

11 augusti 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says

6 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Flood risk rises as people surge into vulnerable regions

4 augusti 2021 | 31 min

Has the world’s oldest known animal been discovered?

28 juli 2021 | 23 min

Audio long-read: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs

26 juli 2021 | 24 min

Coronapod: the latest on COVID and sporting events

24 juli 2021 | 15 min

How the US is rebooting gun violence research

21 juli 2021 | 27 min

Coronapod: Does England's COVID strategy risk breeding deadly variants?

16 juli 2021 | 21 min

How deadly heat waves expose historic racism

14 juli 2021 | 37 min

Coronapod: Will COVID become a disease of the young?

9 juli 2021 | 10 min

Food shocks and how to avoid them

7 juli 2021 | 30 min

Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines

2 juli 2021 | 15 min

The scientist whose hybrid rice helped feed billions

30 juni 2021 | 26 min

Audio long-read: How COVID exposed flaws in evidence-based medicine

28 juni 2021 | 22 min

Coronapod: should you have a COVID vaccine when breastfeeding?

25 juni 2021 | 12 min

Quantum compass might help birds 'see' magnetic fields

23 juni 2021 | 28 min

CureVac disappoints in COVID vaccine trial

18 juni 2021 | 13 min

Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations

16 juni 2021 | 31 min

Coronapod: Counting the cost of long COVID

11 juni 2021 | 11 min

Google AI beats humans at designing computer chips

9 juni 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory

4 juni 2021 | 16 min

On the origin of numbers

2 juni 2021 | 18 min

New hope for vaccine against a devastating livestock disease

26 maj 2021 | 21 min

Audio long-read: How harmful are microplastics?

24 maj 2021 | 21 min

The 'zombie' fires that keep burning under snow-covered forests

19 maj 2021 | 17 min

Coronapod: The variant blamed for India's catastrophic second wave

14 maj 2021 | 9 min

The brain implant that turns thoughts into text

12 maj 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: Waiving vaccine patents and coronavirus genome data disputes

7 maj 2021 | 21 min

Oldest African burial site uncovers Stone Age relationship with death

5 maj 2021 | 20 min

Coronapod special: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic

30 april 2021 | 27 min

What fruit flies could teach scientists about brain imaging

28 april 2021 | 18 min

Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic

26 april 2021 | 19 min

Coronapod: Kids and COVID vaccines

23 april 2021 | 16 min

Meet the inflatable, origami-inspired structures

21 april 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: could COVID vaccines cause blood clots? Here's what the science says

16 april 2021 | 18 min

The sanitation crisis making rural America ill

14 april 2021 | 19 min

Coronapod: A whistle-blower’s quest to take politics out of coronavirus surveillance

9 april 2021 | 22 min

Audio long-read: Rise of the robo-writers

6 april 2021 | 24 min

Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects

2 april 2021 | 13 min

Antimatter cooled with lasers for the first time

31 mars 2021 | 29 min

Coronapod: the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine - what you need to know

26 mars 2021 | 19 min

Network of world's most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time

24 mars 2021 | 28 min

Coronapod: Why COVID antibody treatments may not be the answer

19 mars 2021 | 15 min

The AI that argues back

17 mars 2021 | 23 min

Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?

12 mars 2021 | 13 min

The smallest measurement of gravity ever recorded

10 mars 2021 | 30 min

Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory

5 mars 2021 | 18 min

COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research

3 mars 2021 | 26 min

Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions

26 februari 2021 | 19 min

The quark of the matter: what's really inside a proton?

24 februari 2021 | 26 min

Audio long-read: Thundercloud Project tackles a gamma-ray mystery

23 februari 2021 | 23 min

Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus

19 februari 2021 | 17 min

A mammoth discovery: oldest DNA on record from million-year-old teeth

17 februari 2021 | 31 min

Coronapod: Is mixing COVID vaccines a good idea?

12 februari 2021 | 16 min

Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on

10 februari 2021 | 27 min

Coronapod: Variants – what you need to know

5 februari 2021 | 18 min

Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets

3 februari 2021 | 28 min

Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm

29 januari 2021 | 21 min

Audio long-read: Push, pull and squeeze – the hidden forces that shape life

28 januari 2021 | 15 min

How a spinal device could relieve a neglected effect of cord injury

27 januari 2021 | 28 min

Hiring discrimination laid bare by mountain of data

20 januari 2021 | 37 min

Coronapod: The rise of RNA vaccines

14 januari 2021 | 20 min

The mysterious extinction of the dire wolf

13 januari 2021 | 32 min

Audio long-read: Controlling COVID with science - Iceland's story

30 december 2020 | 21 min

Our podcast highlights of 2020

23 december 2020 | 48 min

Coronapod: The big COVID research papers of 2020

17 december 2020 | 26 min

Could you prevent a pandemic? A very 2020 video game

16 december 2020 | 37 min

Don’t think too deeply about the origin of life – it may have started in puddles

9 december 2020 | 38 min

Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans

3 december 2020 | 16 min

Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice

2 december 2020 | 46 min

Neutrinos give insights into the workings of the Sun’s core

25 november 2020 | 35 min

Coronapod: What could falling COVID death rates mean for the pandemic?

19 november 2020 | 16 min

The troubling rise of facial recognition technology

18 november 2020 | 35 min

Audio long-read: The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period

13 november 2020 | 19 min

Revealed: the impact of noise and light pollution on birds

11 november 2020 | 40 min

A powerful radio burst from a magnetic star

4 november 2020 | 35 min

Talking politics, talking science

30 oktober 2020 | 23 min

Politics of the life scientific

29 oktober 2020 | 24 min

A brief history of politics and science

28 oktober 2020 | 28 min

Lab–grown brains and the debate over consciousness

28 oktober 2020 | 39 min

The science behind an 'uncrushable' beetle’s exoskeleton

21 oktober 2020 | 38 min

Superconductivity gets heated

14 oktober 2020 | 40 min

Audio long-read: What animals really think

9 oktober 2020 | 18 min

Trump vs. Biden: what's at stake for science?

7 oktober 2020 | 43 min

Greenland's ice will melt faster than any time in the past 12,000 years

30 september 2020 | 36 min

After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure

23 september 2020 | 38 min

Genes chart Vikings' spread across Europe

16 september 2020 | 36 min

A new way to cool computer chips — from within

9 september 2020 | 39 min

Revealed: A clearer view of how general anaesthetics actually work

2 september 2020 | 36 min

The challenge of reproducing results from ten-year-old code

26 augusti 2020 | 35 min

3D-printing some of the world's lightest materials

19 augusti 2020 | 37 min

The chemical that turns locusts from Jekyll into Hyde

12 augusti 2020 | 32 min

Audio long-read: Pluto’s dark side is overflowing with secrets

7 augusti 2020 | 18 min

Why skin grows bigger as you stretch it

29 juli 2020 | 34 min

When did people arrive in the Americas? New evidence stokes debate

22 juli 2020 | 42 min

Graphene’s magic angle reveals a new twist

15 juli 2020 | 38 min

Coronapod: Massive coronavirus outbreak strikes iconic Californian prison after it rejected expert aid

10 juli 2020 | 46 min

The six-year-old space agency with hopes for Mars

8 juli 2020 | 25 min

Coronapod: Lessons from pandemic ‘war-game’ simulations

3 juli 2020 | 33 min

What the atomic structure of enamel tells us about tooth decay

1 juli 2020 | 23 min

Coronapod: The state of the pandemic, six months in

26 juni 2020 | 32 min

How playing poker can help you make decisions

24 juni 2020 | 27 min

Coronapod: Dexamethasone, the cheap steroid that could cut coronavirus deaths

19 juni 2020 | 38 min

Incest in the elite of Neolithic Ireland

17 juni 2020 | 29 min

Long Read Podcast: Enigmatic neutron stars may soon give up their secrets

15 juni 2020 | 16 min

Coronapod: The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research

12 juni 2020 | 34 min

The quantum space lab

11 juni 2020 | 22 min

#ShutDownSTEM and the Nature Podcast

9 juni 2020 | 1 min

Coronapod: The heavy toll on people of colour

5 juni 2020 | 25 min

Lab-made skin grows its own hair

3 juni 2020 | 24 min

Coronapod: The divisive hydroxychloroquine study that's triggering mass confusion

29 maj 2020 | 27 min

Super-efficient catalyst boosts hopes for hydrogen fuel

27 maj 2020 | 20 min

Coronapod: Hope and caution greet vaccine trial result, and Trump vs the WHO

22 maj 2020 | 34 min

A synthetic eye that 'sees' like a human

20 maj 2020 | 22 min

Coronapod: The misinformation pandemic, and science funding fears

15 maj 2020 | 32 min

The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers, and the puzzle of urban smog

13 maj 2020 | 20 min

Coronapod: The dangers of ignoring outbreaks in homeless shelters, plus coronavirus and drug abuse

8 maj 2020 | 28 min

07 May 2020: Galileo and the science deniers, and physicists probe the mysterious pion

6 maj 2020 | 22 min

Coronapod: What use are contact tracing apps? And new hopes for coronavirus drug remdesivir

1 maj 2020 | 32 min

30 April 2020: A sniff test for consciousness, and how to cut antibiotics use — with vaccines

29 april 2020 | 23 min

Coronapod: The race to expand antibody testing

24 april 2020 | 33 min

23 April 2020: Denisovan DNA in modern Europeans, and the birth of an unusual celestial object

22 april 2020 | 23 min

Coronapod: Troubling news

17 april 2020 | 30 min

Coronapod: An untapped resource

10 april 2020 | 31 min

09 April 2020: A plastic-recycling enzyme, and supercooled molecules

8 april 2020 | 17 min

Coronapod: Ramping up responses

3 april 2020 | 36 min

02 April 2020: Dating an ancient hominid skull, and an ancient Antarctic rainforest

1 april 2020 | 18 min

Coronapod: Old treatments and new hopes

27 mars 2020 | 26 min

25 March 2020: Ultra-fast electrical switches, and computing heart health

25 mars 2020 | 16 min

Podcast Extra: Rosamund Pike on portraying Marie Curie

21 mars 2020 | 13 min

Coronapod: “Test, test, test!”

20 mars 2020 | 21 min

19 March 2020: Rosamund Pike in Radioactive, and the resurgence of Russian science

18 mars 2020 | 20 min

Podcast Extra: Coronavirus - science in the pandemic

17 mars 2020 | 18 min

Long Read Podcast: Are feelings more than skin deep?

13 mars 2020 | 15 min

12 March 2020: An ancient bird trapped in amber, and life beneath the ocean floor

11 mars 2020 | 27 min

05 March 2020: Ultrafast machine vision, and quicker crystal creation

4 mars 2020 | 24 min

Backchat: Covering coronavirus

28 februari 2020 | 15 min

27 February 2020: Mapping fruit flies’ neural circuitry, and perfecting the properties of metallic glass

26 februari 2020 | 21 min

Podcast Extra: ‘There is lots of anxiety’: a scientist’s view from South Korea

26 februari 2020 | 5 min

20 February 2020: Improving battery charging, and harnessing energy from the air

19 februari 2020 | 28 min

13 February 2020: The puzzling structures of muddled materials, and paving the way for the quantum internet

12 februari 2020 | 27 min

06 February 2020: Out-of-office emails and work-life-balance, and an update on the novel coronavirus outbreak

5 februari 2020 | 26 min

30 January 2020: Linking Australian bushfires to climate change, and Asimov's robot ethics

29 januari 2020 | 28 min

23 January: How stress can cause grey hair, and the attitude needed to tackle climate change

22 januari 2020 | 26 min

16 January 2020: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity

15 januari 2020 | 26 min

09 January 2020: A look ahead at science in 2020

8 januari 2020 | 11 min

01 January 2020: Our reporters’ top picks of 2019

1 januari 2020 | 39 min

Nature PastCast, December 1920: The Quantum Theory

27 december 2019 | 12 min

Podcast Extra: From climate lawyer to climate activist

23 december 2019 | 18 min

Podcast Extra: Epigenetics

20 december 2019 | 11 min

19 December 2019: The three-body problem, and festive fun

18 december 2019 | 33 min

Long Read Podcast: How to save coral reefs as the world warms

16 december 2019 | 16 min

12 December 2019: Social priming, and acoustic science

11 december 2019 | 27 min

05 December 2019: Genomic sequencing and the source of solar winds

4 december 2019 | 28 min

Nature Pastcast, November 1869: The first issue of Nature

29 november 2019 | 14 min

28 November 2019: Nature’s 2019 PhD survey, and older women in sci-fi novels

27 november 2019 | 25 min

21 November 2019: A new antibiotic from nematode guts, grant funding ‘lotteries’, and butterfly genomes

20 november 2019 | 19 min

14 November 2019: A rapid, multi-material 3D printer, and a bacterium’s role in alcoholic hepatitis

13 november 2019 | 23 min

Backchat: Nature's 150th anniversary

7 november 2019 | 18 min

07 November 2019: The fossil of an upright ape, science in 150 years, and immunization progress around the world

6 november 2019 | 31 min

Nature Pastcast, October 1993: Carl Sagan uses Galileo to search for signs of life

31 oktober 2019 | 13 min

31 October 2019: An AI masters the video game StarCraft II, and measuring arthropod abundance

30 oktober 2019 | 25 min

Podcast Extra: Detecting gravitational waves

28 oktober 2019 | 10 min

24 October 2019: Quantum supremacy and ancient mammals

23 oktober 2019 | 27 min

17 October 2019: Mapping childhood mortality, and evolving ‘de novo’ genes

16 oktober 2019 | 24 min

10 October 2019: Estimating earthquake risk, and difficulties for deep-learning

9 oktober 2019 | 24 min

Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough

9 oktober 2019 | 4 min

Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz

8 oktober 2019 | 8 min

03 October 2019: Leapfrogging speciation, and migrating mosquitoes

2 oktober 2019 | 26 min

Nature PastCast, September 1963: Plate tectonics – the unifying theory of Earth sciences

27 september 2019 | 16 min

26 September 2019: Mysteries of the ancient mantle, and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

25 september 2019 | 24 min

Podcast Extra: Absurd scientific advice

21 september 2019 | 16 min

Backchat: Covering Climate Now

19 september 2019 | 19 min

19 September 2019: XKCD, and Extinction Rebellion

18 september 2019 | 26 min

12 September 2019: Modelling early embryos, and male-dominated conferences

11 september 2019 | 24 min

05 September 2019: Persistent antibiotic resistance, and modelling hot cities

4 september 2019 | 26 min

Nature PastCast, August 1975: Antibodies’ ascendency to blockbuster drug status

30 augusti 2019 | 19 min

29 August 2019: Carbon-based computing, and depleting ancient-human genomes

28 augusti 2019 | 26 min

22 August 2019: Combating online hate speech, and identifying early fossils

21 augusti 2019 | 24 min

15 August 2019: Atomic espionage in the Second World War, and exploring the early Universe

14 augusti 2019 | 25 min

08 August 2019: A mindset for success, and mercury in fish

7 augusti 2019 | 26 min

01 August 2019: The placental microbiome, and advances in artificial intelligence

31 juli 2019 | 20 min

Nature PastCast, July 1942: Secret science in World War 2

26 juli 2019 | 15 min

25 July 2019: The history of climate change, and making vaccines mandatory

24 juli 2019 | 19 min

Backchat July 2019: Breaking news, audience-led journalism and human gene editing

19 juli 2019 | 26 min

18 July 2019: Quantum logic gates in silicon, and moving on from lab disasters

17 juli 2019 | 27 min

11 July 2019: The moon, past, present, and future

10 juli 2019 | 13 min

04 July 2019: Machine learning in materials science, and sand’s sustainability

3 juli 2019 | 23 min

Nature PastCast, June 1876: Gorillas, man-eating monsters?

28 juni 2019 | 16 min

27 June 2019: Callused feet, and protein-based archaeology

26 juni 2019 | 27 min

20 June 2019: Non-native species, and a blood-inspired robot battery

19 juni 2019 | 24 min

13 June 2019: Mighty magnets, and aerosols in the atmosphere

12 juni 2019 | 24 min

06 June 2019: Microbes modifying medicine and kickstarting plate tectonics

5 juni 2019 | 21 min

Nature PastCast May 1983: Discovering the ozone layer hole

31 maj 2019 | 16 min

30 May 2019: Cold fusion, gender parity in universities, and studying wildfires

30 maj 2019 | 16 min

23 May 2019: Pre-industrial plankton populations, European science, and ancient fungi.

22 maj 2019 | 28 min

16 May 2019: Recoding genomes, and material from the Moon's far side

15 maj 2019 | 24 min

09 May 2019: Urban vs Rural BMI, and the health of rivers

8 maj 2019 | 21 min

02 May 2019: China's growing science network, and talking brain signals

1 maj 2019 | 27 min

Nature PastCast April 1953: The other DNA papers

26 april 2019 | 14 min

25 April 2019: Tiny earthquakes, the genetics of height, and how US-China politics is affecting research

25 april 2019 | 11 min

18 April 2019: Reviving brains, lightning, and spring books

17 april 2019 | 28 min

Podcast Extra: The first image of a black hole

11 april 2019 | 7 min

11 April 2019: Heart failure and vacuum field fluctuations.

10 april 2019 | 24 min

04 April 2019: MDMA and the malleable mind, and keeping skin young

3 april 2019 | 26 min

Backchat March 2019: Calls for a research moratorium, and the evolution of science reporting

29 mars 2019 | 21 min

28 March 2019: Human impacts on Mount Kilimanjaro, sex differences in pain, and a crystal-based cooling method

27 mars 2019 | 30 min

21 March 2019: Antibiotics in orchards, and rethinking statistical significance

20 mars 2019 | 25 min

Nature Pastcast March 1918: The eclipse expedition to put Einstein to the test

15 mars 2019 | 16 min

14 March 2019: Ebola in DRC, a new HIV treatment, and the proposed US budget.

14 mars 2019 | 12 min

07 March 2019: Coastal carbon-sinks, mobile health, and Mileva Marić

6 mars 2019 | 27 min

28 February 2019: Cuckoo parasitism, topological materials, and cannabinoids in yeast.

27 februari 2019 | 31 min

21 February 2019: Mouse cell atlases and cataloguing viruses

20 februari 2019 | 25 min

14 February 2019: Atherosclerosis and disruptive science

13 februari 2019 | 24 min

07 February 2019: Massive chemical libraries, and CRISPR-CasX

6 februari 2019 | 25 min

31 January 2019: Women of the periodic table, and harvesting energy from Wi-Fi

30 januari 2019 | 22 min

24 January 2019: Economic downturns and black holes

23 januari 2019 | 23 min

17 January 2019: RNA splicing in yeast, and a walking fossil

16 januari 2019 | 23 min

Podcast Extra: The search for a rare disease treatment

11 januari 2019 | 11 min

10 January 2019: Fast Radio Bursts and new year future gazing

9 januari 2019 | 21 min

26 December 2018: Our reporters' top picks of 2018

26 december 2018 | 23 min

20 December 2018: Quantum physics adds a twist, and festive fun

19 december 2018 | 34 min

Podcast Extra: Evidence of a ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s protein

13 december 2018 | 10 min

13 December 2018: The art of performing science, and chiral chemistry

12 december 2018 | 24 min

06 December 2018: Heart xenotransplants and phage fighting

5 december 2018 | 24 min

29 November 2018: Atomic clock accuracy and wind farm worries

28 november 2018 | 24 min

22 November 2018: An ion-drive aeroplane, and DNA rearrangement.

21 november 2018 | 24 min

15 November 2018: Barnard’s Star, and clinical trials

14 november 2018 | 22 min

08 November 2018: Designer cells, and a Breakthrough researcher

7 november 2018 | 25 min

01 November 2018: Mood forecasting technology, and where are the WIMPs?

31 oktober 2018 | 23 min

18 October 2018: Cannabis horticulture and the Sun's place in history

17 oktober 2018 | 24 min

11 October 2018: The life of a new Nobel laureate and organised ants

10 oktober 2018 | 23 min

04 October 2018: Latent HIV, bird personalities and the Hyabusa2 mission

3 oktober 2018 | 31 min

27 September 2018: A wearable biosensor and a mechanical metamaterial.

26 september 2018 | 22 min

20 September 2018: Negative emissions and swarms under strain

19 september 2018 | 25 min

13 September 2018: The oldest drawing and the energy of data

12 september 2018 | 25 min

6 September 2018: Space junk, and a physicist’s perspective on life

5 september 2018 | 23 min

30 August 2018: Gravity’s big G and the evolution of babies

29 augusti 2018 | 23 min

Backchat August 2018: Audio reporting, audience feedback, and Brexit

24 augusti 2018 | 24 min

23 August 2018: Quantum computers and labour division in ants

22 augusti 2018 | 25 min

16 August 2018: Bumblebees, opioids, and ocean weather

15 augusti 2018 | 30 min

8 August 2018: Fox aggression, microbiota and geoengineering

8 augusti 2018 | 27 min

02 August 2018: Zebra finch colour perception, terraforming Mars, and attributing extreme weather

1 augusti 2018 | 32 min

26 July 2018: Conservation, automata, and pet DNA tests

25 juli 2018 | 29 min

19 July 2018: DNA scaffolds, climate-altering microbes, and a robot chemist

18 juli 2018 | 27 min

12 July 2018: Rats, reefs, and career streaks

11 juli 2018 | 31 min

05 July 2018: A DNA computer, the koala genome, and the invisibility of LGBTQ+ researchers

4 juli 2018 | 31 min

Backchat June 2018: Lab health, email briefings, and CRISPR

29 juni 2018 | 19 min

27 June 2018: Air pollution, sick plants, and stress

27 juni 2018 | 29 min

21 June 2018: Pancreatic cancer, silica cages, and AI bias

20 juni 2018 | 27 min

14 June 2018: Baobab tree death, zebrafish stem cells, and ice in Antarctica

13 juni 2018 | 33 min

07 June 2018: Magnetic animal migration, cold enzymes, and mouse memory

6 juni 2018 | 31 min

31 May 2018: Boosting diversity in physics, and life after an asteroid impact

30 maj 2018 | 24 min

24 May 2018: Climate costs, cleverer cab journeys, and peering through matter with muons

23 maj 2018 | 32 min

17 May 2018: Probing the proton, research misconduct, and making sense of mystery genes

16 maj 2018 | 28 min

10 May 2018: AI neuroscience, liquid crystals, and depression in academia

9 maj 2018 | 29 min

03 May 2018: Building early embryos, the fear response in mice, and ancient rhino remains

2 maj 2018 | 29 min

26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image

25 april 2018 | 21 min

Backchat April 2018: Sexual harassment, social media, and celebrity scientists

20 april 2018 | 28 min

19 April 2018: Synchronised shrimp, supernova science, and spring books.

18 april 2018 | 31 min

12 April 2018: The power of remote sensing, and watching a neutron star glitch

11 april 2018 | 23 min

05 April 2018: Human's influence on the Mississippi and 'dirty' mice

4 april 2018 | 24 min

29 March 2018: AI in chemistry, and liquid droplets in living cells.

28 mars 2018 | 23 min

22 March 2018: Mexican cavefish, the gut microbiome, and a wearable brain scanner.

21 mars 2018 | 30 min

15 March 2018: Geoengineering Antarctica and increasing NMR’s resolution.

14 mars 2018 | 23 min

8 March 2018: Surprising graphene superconductors, and 50 years dreaming of electric sheep.

7 mars 2018 | 22 min

1 March 2018: Brain waves and a fingerprint from the early Universe

28 februari 2018 | 31 min

Backchat February 2018: Luck, debate, and the quantum internet

23 februari 2018 | 24 min

22 February 2018: A focus on adolescence

21 februari 2018 | 28 min

15 February 2018: Optical clocks, healthy ageing, and fieldwork during pregnancy

14 februari 2018 | 27 min

08 February 2018: Tough timber, magpie intelligence, and invasive crayfish

7 februari 2018 | 30 min

01 February 2018: Stone Age tools in India, and coral reefs in crisis

31 januari 2018 | 21 min

25 January 2018: Tiny robots, 3D images, and a honeycomb maze

24 januari 2018 | 29 min

18 January 2018: Climate sensitivity, and the fetal microbiome

17 januari 2018 | 24 min

10 January 2018: Conflict conservation, and the shape of a memory

10 januari 2018 | 32 min

Backchat December 2017: Trump, physics, and uncited papers

22 december 2017 | 25 min

21 December 2017: Earth AI, a news quiz, and sci-fi

20 december 2017 | 38 min

14 December 2017: Volcanoes, viruses & electric eels

13 december 2017 | 30 min

7 December 2017: Exoplanet geology & duck-like dinosaurs

6 december 2017 | 23 min

30 November 2017: Unnatural DNA & worm mothers

29 november 2017 | 24 min

23 November 2017: Sleep deprivation & radioactive lightning

22 november 2017 | 26 min

16 November 2017: Ancient inequality & bacterial communication

15 november 2017 | 24 min

9 November 2017: Axolotls & treating a genetic skin condition

8 november 2017 | 23 min

2 November 2017: Evolving verbs & Earth's microbiome

1 november 2017 | 25 min

26 October 2017: Undead cells & Antarctic instability

25 oktober 2017 | 29 min

19 October 2017: Neutron star gravitational waves & the future of work

19 oktober 2017 | 22 min

12 October 2017: A dwarf planet & DNA sequencing

11 oktober 2017 | 30 min

Nature Extra: 500th show compilation

6 oktober 2017 | 60 min

Nature Podcast: 5 October 2017

4 oktober 2017 | 40 min

Nature Podcast: 21 September 2017

20 september 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 14 September 2017

13 september 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 7 September 2017

6 september 2017 | 28 min

Nature Podcast: 24 August 2017

23 augusti 2017 | 24 min

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Nature Podcast: 10 August 2017

11 augusti 2017 | 29 min

Nature Podcast: 3 August 2017

2 augusti 2017 | 31 min

Nature Podcast: 27 July 2017

26 juli 2017 | 31 min

Nature Podcast: 20 July 2017

19 juli 2017 | 29 min

Nature Podcast: 13 July 2017

12 juli 2017 | 30 min

Nature Podcast: 6 July 2017

5 juli 2017 | 28 min

Grand Challenges: Energy

3 juli 2017 | 26 min

Extra: The grey zone

30 juni 2017 | 18 min

Backchat: June 2017

16 juni 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

14 juni 2017 | 29 min

Nature Podcast: 15 June 2017

14 juni 2017 | 29 min

Nature Podcast: 8 June 2017

7 juni 2017 | 31 min

Grand Challenges: Food security

5 juni 2017 | 25 min

Nature Podcast: 1 June 2017

31 maj 2017 | 31 min

Nature Extra: Futures May 2017

31 maj 2017 | 7 min

Backchat: May 2017

26 maj 2017 | 24 min

Nature Podcast: 25 May 2017

24 maj 2017 | 28 min

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10 maj 2017 | 30 min

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3 maj 2017 | 29 min

Grand Challenges: Ageing

1 maj 2017 | 30 min

Nature Extra: Futures April 2017

28 april 2017 | 7 min

Nature Podcast: 27 April 2017

26 april 2017 | 31 min

Backchat: April 2017

21 april 2017 | 24 min

Nature Podcast: 13 April 2017

12 april 2017 | 29 min

Nature Podcast: 6 April 2017

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Grand Challenges: Mental Health

3 april 2017 | 28 min

Nature Extra: Futures March 2017

31 mars 2017 | 7 min

Nature Podcast: 30 March 2017

29 mars 2017 | 29 min

Backchat: March 2017

23 mars 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 23 March 2017

22 mars 2017 | 28 min

Nature Podcast: 16 March 2017

15 mars 2017 | 28 min

REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - March 1918

10 mars 2017 | 16 min

Nature Podcast: 9 March 2017

9 mars 2017 | 31 min

Nature Podcast: 2 March 2017

1 mars 2017 | 27 min

Backchat: February 2017

1 mars 2017 | 22 min

Nature Extra: Futures February 2017

27 februari 2017 | 4 min

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22 februari 2017 | 28 min

Nature Podcast: 16 February 2017

15 februari 2017 | 28 min

REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925

10 februari 2017 | 12 min

Nature Podcast: 9 February 2017

8 februari 2017 | 31 min

Nature Podcast: 2 February 2017

1 februari 2017 | 29 min

Nature Extra: Futures January 2017

31 januari 2017 | 6 min

Backchat: January 2017

27 januari 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 26 January 2017

25 januari 2017 | 31 min

Nature Podcast: 19 January 2017

18 januari 2017 | 31 min

REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - January 1896

13 januari 2017 | 16 min

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11 januari 2017 | 23 min

Nature Podcast: 22 December 2016

21 december 2016 | 39 min

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14 december 2016 | 30 min

REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - December 1920

9 december 2016 | 13 min

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7 december 2016 | 30 min

Nature Extra: Futures November 2016

1 december 2016 | 6 min

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30 november 2016 | 26 min

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