Nature Podcast
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show featuring highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world.For complete access to the original papers featured in the Nature Podcast, subscribe to Nature.
- Website
- http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast
- Description
- The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to neuroscience, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and providing in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-16 22:48
- last episode published
- 2024-12-16 16:48
- publication frequency
- 4.67 days
- Contributors
- Nature Publishing Group
- Owner Author
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- false
- Number of Episodes
- 842
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- Categories
- News Technology Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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| 2024-12-16 | Categorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems scientists have created to name everything from the trenches on the sea bed to the stars in the sky.But names have consequences — unintended or otherwise. In our new series What... | |
| 2024-12-11 |
Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice 00:45 A potential treatment for pre-eclampsiaResearchers have shown in mice experiments that an mRNA-based therapy can reverse the underlying causes of pre-eclampsia, a deadly complication of pregnancy for which treatment options are limited. Inspired ... |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum has spent his career studying animals and how they communicate in the wild. In his book Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication, Arik takes a deep dive into the various forms of communication, from wolf howl... |
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| 2024-12-04 |
Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period 00:48 Chemotherapy efficacy varies with the menstrual cycleBreast cancer cells are more susceptible to chemotherapy at certain points in the menstrual cycle, new data in Nature suggests. Researchers studied the equivalent hormonal cycle in mice and fou... |
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| 2024-11-29 |
Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work? AI tools that help researchers design new proteins have resulted in a boom in designer molecules. However, these proteins are being churned out faster than they can be made and tested in labs.To overcome this, multiple protein-design competitions have ... |
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| 2024-11-27 |
Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance 00:50 Fossilised faeces give news insights into dinosaurs’ diets and riseA huge collection of fossilised digestive contents has provided clues as to how dinosaurs grew to become the dominant animals on the planet. Why these animals rose to dominance ha... |
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| 2024-11-20 | 00:45 A squid-inspired device for needle-free drug deliveryInspired by squids’ ability to shoot ink, a team of researchers have developed swallowable devices that can deliver tiny jets of drugs directly into the gut lining, circumventing the need for n... | |
| 2024-11-13 |
Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing 00:46 The role of skull bone marrow in ageingDuring ageing, bone marrow in the skull becomes an increasingly important site of blood-cell production. This is in stark contrast to most bones where the ability of marrow to make blood and immune cells dec... |
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| 2024-11-08 |
’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize shortlisted novel Orbital is set inside an International Space Station-like vessel circling 250 miles above Earth. It looks at a day-in-the-life of the crew, investigating the contrasts they experience during the 16 orbit... |
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| 2024-11-06 |
Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different types 00:46 Mitochondria divide their labour to help cells thriveResearchers have uncovered that mitochondria divide into two distinct forms when cells are starved, a finding that could help explain how some cancers thrive in hostile conditions. Mitochondria... |