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Nature Podcast
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 jour...
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Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by
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On Monday, reporter Alexandra Witze was in the heart of the Artemis II mission’s science operations. She tells us about the exp...
Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
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Nature: Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice
Nature: Motherhood der...
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence
In this podcast we'll talk about NASA's Artemis II launch, which has ushered in a new era of lunar exploration.
Nature: Lift off! Artemis II mis...
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
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Research Article: Voigt et al.
Nature: Sunken Soviet nuclear submarine’s radioactive release<...
Briefing Chat: ‘Zombie cells’ resurrected with new genes
Nature staff discuss some of the week's top science news.
Nature: ‘Zombie cells’ return from the dead — after a genome transplant
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Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea
Research Article : Snelling et al.
Nature: Faster ticking of ‘biological clock’ predicts shorter lifespan
Nature: Mighty min...
Briefing Chat: Are scientists funny? The evidence is in — and it's no joke
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Nature: Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice
Nature: Knock knock, no one’s t...
Botanical mystery solved: how plants make a crucial malaria drug
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Research Article : Lombe et al.
Nature: Electric-vehicle batteries toughen up to beat the hea...
Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game
Nature: How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science
Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news,...
This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates
A study reveals how the asexual Amazon molly defies evolutionary expectations — plus, evidence of what may be powering superluminous supernovae.
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Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey
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New Scientist: Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes
Injectable fluid safely fills area in which blood clots can form, in animal trials — plus, strong evidence that an elusive form of diamond has been ma...
Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
This is an audio version of our Feature: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
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Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers
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00:15 How Pokémon inspired fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity
Nature: Pokémon turns 30 —...
How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers
High-speed footage reveals shoe squeaks can start with a tiny bolt of lightning — plus, evidence that a debated brain phenomenon exists in humans.
Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool
Nature: Brain differences between sexes get more pronounced from puberty
Science: How do busy bees avoid overheating from flying?<...
This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years
Nature: Microsoft Research Project Silica Team
Nature: Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia
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Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data
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Nature: Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people
Scientific American: ...
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies' brains
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Nature: Cho et al.
Nature: Beetle is locked into an eternal dance ― with an ant
Nature:...
Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant
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Nature: 48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant
Nature: How...
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
Nature: Thompson et al.
Nature: Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil
Nature: Largest galaxy...
Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
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Nature: Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity
Nat...
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
Nature: Touponse et al.
Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
Nature: Getting to the (squar...
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
This is an audio version of our Feature: ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
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Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome
Science: No bull: This...
The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
Nature: Pedalino et al.
News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'
Natu...
Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
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Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
Na...
AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope
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Research article: Hao et al.
Nature: Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
N...
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
Researchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from California to Hawaii, allowing it to ac...
Science in 2026: what to expect this year
In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2026. We’ll hear about: small-scale AI models...
Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast in the past few years, thr...
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025
Researchers have created a ‘pangenome’ containing the genomes of multiple potato types, something they believe can help make it easier to breed and se...
Nature's News & Views roundup of 2025
Nature: Asteroids, antibiotics and ants: a year of remarkable science
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Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu...
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025
Nature put a call out for readers to tell us about memorable presents that first got them interested in science, or mementos of their life in research...
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
Baked soil, ancient tools, and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the e...
Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes
The ability of space-based telescopes to image the distant Universe could be in peril, according to new research investigating the impacts of light-po...
Audio long read: Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases — fixing them is about to get a lot easier
CRISPR-based gene editing has revolutionized modern biology, but these tools are unable to access the DNA that resides inside mitochondria. Researcher...
This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
The sounds of ‘micro-lightning’ have been recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover, ending a long search for the phenomenon on Mars. A lack of suitable e...
Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
Researchers have developed a skin-permeable polymer that can deliver insulin into the body, which they say could one day offer an alternative to injec...
‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer
Yoshua Bengio, considered by many to be one of the godfathers of AI, has long been at the forefront of machine-learning research . However, his opinio...