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
- 2024-04-26 13:16
- last episode published
- 2024-04-26 13:00
- publication frequency
- 4.67 days
- Contributors
- Nature Publishing Group
- Owner Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 791
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- Categories
- News Technology Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-26 | Many people around the world feel lonely. Chronic loneliness is known to have far-reaching health effects and has been linked to multiple conditions and even early death. But the mechanisms through which feeling alone can lead to poor health is a puzzl... | |
| 2024-04-24 | In this episode:00:46 Optical clocks at seaOptical atomic clocks are the most precise timekeeping devices on the planet, but these devices are huge and difficult to work with, limiting their use outside of the lab. Now, researchers have developed a por... | |
| 2024-04-19 | Humans setting up home in outer space has long been the preserve of science fiction. Now, thanks to advances in technology and the backing of billionaires, this dream could actually be realised. But is it more likely to be a nightmare?Kelly and Zach We... | |
| 2024-04-17 | In this episode:00:46 Mysterious methane emission from a cool brown dwarfThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing the makeup of brown dwarfs — strange space objects that blur the line between a planet and a star. And it appears that methane i... | |
| 2024-04-10 | In this episode:00:46 Mapping ‘ghost roads’ in tropical forestsAcross the world, huge numbers of illegal roads have been cut into forests. However, due to their illicit nature, the exact numbers of these roads and their impacts on ecosystems is poorly ... | |
| 2024-04-05 |
Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say Around the world, rates of cancers that typically affect older adults are increasing in those under 50 years old. Models based on global data predict that the number of early-onset cancer cases like these will increase by around 30% between 2019 and 20... |
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| 2024-04-03 |
Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite-birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg In this episode:00:35 Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age — but giving birth turns it backGrowing a baby leads to changes in the distribution of certain chemical markers on a pregnant person’s DNA, but new research suggests that after giving birth... |
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| 2024-03-27 | In this episode:01:28 Inflammation’s role in memoryHow memories are stored is an ongoing question in neuroscience. Now researchers have found an inflammatory pathway that responds to DNA damage in neurons has a key role in the persistence of memories. ... | |
| 2024-03-20 | In this episode:00:48 How mysterious skyrmions could power next-generation computersSkyrmions are tiny whirlpools of magnetic spin that some researchers believe have useful properties that could unlock new kinds of computing. However getting skyrmions ... | |
| 2024-03-13 |
Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why In this episode:00:45 Making a map of the human heartThe human heart consists of multiple, specialised structures that all work together to enable the organ to beat for a lifetime. But exactly which cells are present in each part of the heart has been ... |