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Nature Podcast — 881 episodes
Inside the evidence revolution — how decision-making became data driven
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players
Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of 'off label' treatments
Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by
Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
Briefing Chat: ‘Zombie cells’ resurrected with new genes
Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea
Briefing Chat: Are scientists funny? The evidence is in — and it's no joke
Botanical mystery solved: how plants make a crucial malaria drug
Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game
This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates
Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes
Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers
How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers
Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool
This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years
Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies' brains
Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
Science in 2026: what to expect this year
Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025
Nature's News & Views roundup of 2025
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes
Audio long read: Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases — fixing them is about to get a lot easier
This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer
Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last
Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years – this protein might be why
Audio long read: How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says
Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive
New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot
How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring
Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop
Audio long read: Autism is on the rise — what’s really behind the increase?
How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain
Apocalypse then: how cataclysms shaped human societies
This AI tool predicts your risk of 1,000 diseases — by looking at your medical records
Detecting gravitational waves
Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves
Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back
Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz
Two ants, two species, one mother
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI
Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France
Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry
Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action
Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test
Earth's deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea
Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point
AI, bounties and culture change, how scientists are taking on errors
‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey
Three weeks in a hide to spot one elusive bear: the life of a wildlife film-maker
Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases
Audio long read: How to speak to a vaccine sceptic — research reveals what works
3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry
Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance
Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight
Hundreds of physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party
This stretchy neural implant grows with an axolotl's brain
Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan
Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people
How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
Herring population loses migration 'memory' after heavy fishing
The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
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
‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers
What a trove of potato genomes reveals about the humble spud
Long-awaited ape genomes give new insights into their evolution — and ours
From Hippocrates to COVID-19: the scientific fight to prove diseases can be airborne
Trump team removes senior NIH chiefs in shock move
World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery
Audio long read: How quickly are you ageing? What molecular ‘clocks’ can tell you about your health
New lasso-shaped antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria
Tiny satellite sets new record for secure quantum communication
Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin
Earliest crafted bone tools date back 1.5 million years
Audio long read: Why kids need to take more risks — science reveals the benefits of wild, free play
If your heart stops, this smartwatch-AI can call for help
Racist ratings linger in five-star systems — a thumbs up could fix that
Record-breaking neutrino detected by huge underwater telescope
From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science
Kids' real-world arithmetic skills don't transfer to the classroom
The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
What's the best way to become a professor? The answer depends on where you are
AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites
A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed
Science in 2025: what to expect this year
Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2024
Behind the scenes of Nature News and Views in 2024
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2024
Should offensive species names be changed? The organisms that honour dictators, racists and criminals
Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice
Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter
Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period
Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance
Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut
Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing
’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station
Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different types
REBROADCAST: Talking politics, talking science
REBROADCAST: Politics of the life scientific
REBROADCAST: A brief history of politics and science
How to recover from the trauma of a climate disaster
Audio long read: Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate
Massive lost mountain cities revealed by lasers
Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator
This AI powered 'tongue' can tell Coke and Pepsi apart
Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time
Audio long read: A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer
Children with Down's syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint at why
Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories
Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory
The baseless stat that could be harming Indigenous conservation efforts
Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer
Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Covert racism in AI chatbots, precise Stone Age engineering, and the science of paper cuts
Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains
AI can't learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that
The mystery of Stonehenge's central stone unearthed
ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it
Where weird plants thrive: aridity spurs diversity of traits
How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs
Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life
Rapid sepsis test identifies bacteria that spark life-threatening infection
The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost
Breastfeeding should break down mothers' bones — here's why it doesn't
These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus
Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026
Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat
How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer
Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity
Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinformation
How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets
How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists
Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models
Fentanyl addiction: the brain pathways behind the opioid crisis
Lizard-inspired building design could save lives
Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade
Talking about sex and gender doesn't need to be toxic
Dad's microbiome can affect offsprings' health — in mice
Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health
How gliding marsupials got their 'wings'
Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why
Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory
The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation
Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg
How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs
Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why
These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment
Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?
Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them
How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved
Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test
Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer
Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells
Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how
Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools
Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why
Toxic red mud could be turned into 'green' steel
This AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?
The science stories you missed over the holiday period
Science in 2024: what to expect this year
Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy?
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2023
How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem
The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2023
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
Inhaled vaccine prevents COVID in monkeys
Cat parasite Toxoplasma tricked to grow in a dish
The world’s smallest light-trapping silicon cavity
Sanitary products made from plants could help tackle period poverty
Why COP28 probably won't keep the 1.5 degree dream alive
Audio long read: Apple revival — how science is bringing historic varieties back to life
Polio could be eradicated within 3 years — what happens then?
Dust: the tiny substance with enormous power
How to 3D print fully-formed robots
How to tame a toxic yet life-saving antifungal
Nature's Take: How will ChatGPT and generative AI transform research?
A new hydrogel can be directly injected into muscle to help it regenerate
Audio long read: Why BMI is flawed — and how to redefine obesity
Martian sounds reveal the secrets of the red planet's core
Sounds of recovery: AI helps monitor wildlife during forest restoration
An anti-CRISPR system that helps save viruses from destruction
Gene edits move pig organs closer to human transplantation
'This doesn't just fall on women': computer scientists reflect on gender biases in STEM
Astronomers are worried by a satellite brighter than most stars
Audio long read: These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance
This isn't the Nature Podcast — how deepfakes are distorting reality
Why does cancer spread to the spine? Newly discovered stem cells might be the key
A mussel-inspired glue for more sustainable sticking
Our ancestors lost nearly 99% of their population, 900,000 years ago
Physicists finally observe strange isotope Oxygen 28 – raising fundamental questions
Audio long read: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech
Fruit flies' ability to sense magnetic fields thrown into doubt
Racism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal mortality crisis
How welcome are refugees in Europe? A giant study has some answers
How to get more women in science, with Athene Donald
Audio long read: Lab mice go wild — making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain
Facebook ‘echo chamber’ has little impact on polarized views, according to study
AI-enhanced night-vision lets users see in the dark
Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal
ChatGPT can write a paper in an hour — but there are downsides
Even a 'minimal cell' can grow stronger, thanks to evolution
Audio long read: ‘Almost magical’ — chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core
Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages
Why bladder cancer cells that shed their Y chromosome become more aggressive
What IBM's result means for quantum computing
A brain circuit for infanticide, in mice
AI identifies gene interactions to speed up search for treatment targets
Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?
‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost
JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail
Nature's Take: Can Registered Reports help tackle publication bias?
‘Pangenome’ aims to capture the breadth of human diversity
Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up
Audio long read: Conquering Alzheimer’s — a look at the therapies of the future
How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
A smarter way to melt down plastics?
How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden
Octopuses hunt by 'tasting' with their suckers
Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form
Audio long read: What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting
Bacterial ‘syringes’ could inject drugs directly into human cells
How to make driverless cars safer — expose them to lots of dangerous drivers
How to build a virus-proof cell
How the Australian wildfires devastated the ozone layer
How an increased heart rate could induce anxiety in mice
Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science
Audio long read: How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity
A twisting microscope that could unlock the secrets of 2D materials
How 'metadevices' could make electronics faster
This mysterious space rock shouldn’t have a ring — but it does
How mummies were prepared: Ancient Egyptian pots spill secrets
Audio long read: The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
Amino acid slows nerve damage from diabetes, in mouse study
Laser 'lightning rod' diverts strikes high in the Alps
The science stories you missed over the past four weeks
Science in 2023: what to expect this year
The Nature Podcast’s highlights of 2022
The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2022
COVID deaths: three times the official toll
Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old ecosystem
Gaia Vince on how climate change will shape where people live
Mysterious fluid from ant pupae helps feed colony
Audio long read: Science and the World Cup — how big data is transforming football
The satellite-free alternative to GPS
How a key Alzheimer's gene wreaks havoc in the brain
Audio long read: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?
Molecular cages sift 'heavy' water from near-identical H2O
Audio long read: The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby
Flies can move their rigid, omnidirectional eyes – a little
Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine
Ancient DNA reveals family of Neanderthals living in Siberian cave
Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease
Virtual library of LSD-like drugs could reveal new antidepressants
Nature's Take: How the war in Ukraine is impacting science
Audio long read: What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns
A trove of ancient fish fossils helps trace the origin of jaws
Huge dataset shows 80% of US professors come from just 20% of institutions
Complex synthetic cells bring scientists closer to artificial cellular life
Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation
Audio long read: Hybrid brains – the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals
How to make water that's full of holes
Do protons have intrinsic charm? New evidence suggests yes
Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution
Why low temperatures could help starve tumours of fuel
Massive Facebook study reveals a key to social mobility
Coronapod: the open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity
How humans adapted to digest lactose — after thousands of years of milk drinking
How researchers have pinpointed the origin of 'warm-blooded' mammals
Ancient mud reveals the longest record of climate from the tropics
Higgs boson at 10: a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle
Coronapod: detecting COVID variants in sewage
Higgs boson turns ten: the mysteries physicists are still trying to solve
Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses
Norovirus could spread through saliva: a new route for infection?
Audio long read: These six countries are about to go to the Moon
Coronapod: USA authorises vaccines for youngest of kids
How science can tackle inequality
How the Black Death got its start
Coronapod: COVID and smell loss, what the science says
Ancient 'giraffes' sported thick helmets for headbutting
Audio long read: The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
Robot exercises shoulder cells for better tissue transplants
Coronapod: 'A generational loss' - COVID's devastating impact on education
X-ray analysis hints at answers to fossil mystery
How galaxies could exist without dark matter
Coronapod: 'viral ghosts' support idea that SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs could be behind long COVID
Retinas revived after donor's death open door to new science
Swapping in a bit of microbial 'meat' has big eco-gains
Coronapod: COVID and diabetes, what the science says
How virtual meetings can limit creative ideas
Audio long-read: The quest to prevent MS — and understand other post-viral diseases
We could still limit global warming to just 2˚C — but there's an 'if'
Coronapod: Infected immune cells hint at cause of severe COVID
Why do naked mole rats live as long as giraffes?
Five years in the coldest fridge in the known Universe
Audio long-read: A more-inclusive genome project aims to capture all of human diversity
Winding roads could make you a better navigator
Milky Way's origin story revealed by 250,000 stars
Coronapod: How vaccine complacency is plaguing 'COVID zero' strategies
The coin toss of Alzheimer's inheritance
The vest that can hear your heartbeat
The AI that deciphers ancient Greek graffiti
Coronapod: why stopping COVID testing would be a mistake
COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises
Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
Dinosaur-destroying asteroid struck in spring
Tongan volcano eruption leaves scientists with unanswered questions
Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine
RNA test detects deadly pregnancy disorder early
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID
Weirdly flowing water finally has an explanation: 'quantum friction'
Coronapod: Why T cells have been overlooked
How can battery-powered aircraft get off the ground?
Audio long read: Is precision public health the future — or a contradiction?
Coronapod: COVID death toll is likely millions more than official counts
Why mutation is not as random as we thought
Podcast Extra: Recreating the lost sounds of spring
Webb Space Telescope makes history after tense launch
Science in 2022: what to expect this year
Audio long-read: The secret lives of cells — as never seen before
Our podcast highlights of 2021
The Nature Podcast annual holiday spectacular
Coronapod: Omicron - your questions answered
Pluto's strange ice patterns explained by new theory
Coronapod: vaccines and long COVID, how protected are you?
How 'megastudies' are changing behavioural science
Coronapod: How has COVID impacted mental health?
What’s the best diet for people and the planet?
Audio long-read: The chase for fusion energy
Coronapod: everything we know about the new COVID variant
Researcher careers under the microscope: salary satisfaction and COVID impacts
Sea squirts teach new lessons in evolution
Coronapod: new hope from COVID antiviral drugs
The past and future of the Earth's climate
Audio long-read: How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?
Podcast special: onboard the climate train to COP26
China’s COVID vaccines have been crucial — now immunity is waning
Genomics unwraps mystery of the Tarim mummies
Coronapod: can scientists harness COVID super-immunity?
Viking presence in the Americas pinpointed by ancient solar storm
Coronapod: the COVID scientists facing violent threats
How electric acupuncture zaps inflammation in mice
Coronapod: new data affirms the benefits of air filters and masks
The AI that accurately predicts the chances of rain
Starting up in science: behind the scenes
Starting up in science: Episode 4
Starting up in science: Episode 3
Starting up in science: Episode 2
Starting up in science: Episode 1
Audio long-read: Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef?
Coronapod: solving the COVID vaccine manufacturing problem
The floating sensors inspired by seeds
How to help feed the world with 'Blue Foods'
The billion years missing from Earth’s history
Dead trees play an under-appreciated role in climate change
Audio long-read: why sports concussions are worse for women
Coronapod: How Delta is changing the game
What’s the isiZulu for dinosaur? How science neglected African languages
Coronapod: COVID boosters amidst global vaccine inequity
The brain cells that help animals navigate in 3D
Coronapod: Ivermectin, what the science says
Flood risk rises as people surge into vulnerable regions
Has the world’s oldest known animal been discovered?
Audio long-read: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
Coronapod: the latest on COVID and sporting events
How the US is rebooting gun violence research
Coronapod: Does England's COVID strategy risk breeding deadly variants?
How deadly heat waves expose historic racism
Coronapod: Will COVID become a disease of the young?
Food shocks and how to avoid them
Coronapod: the biomarker that could change COVID vaccines
The scientist whose hybrid rice helped feed billions
Audio long-read: How COVID exposed flaws in evidence-based medicine
Coronapod: should you have a COVID vaccine when breastfeeding?
Quantum compass might help birds 'see' magnetic fields
CureVac disappoints in COVID vaccine trial
Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations
Coronapod: Counting the cost of long COVID
Google AI beats humans at designing computer chips
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory
On the origin of numbers
New hope for vaccine against a devastating livestock disease
Audio long-read: How harmful are microplastics?
The 'zombie' fires that keep burning under snow-covered forests
Coronapod: The variant blamed for India's catastrophic second wave
The brain implant that turns thoughts into text
Coronapod: Waiving vaccine patents and coronavirus genome data disputes
Oldest African burial site uncovers Stone Age relationship with death
Coronapod special: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic
What fruit flies could teach scientists about brain imaging
Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic
Coronapod: Kids and COVID vaccines
Meet the inflatable, origami-inspired structures
Coronapod: could COVID vaccines cause blood clots? Here's what the science says
The sanitation crisis making rural America ill
Coronapod: A whistle-blower’s quest to take politics out of coronavirus surveillance
Audio long-read: Rise of the robo-writers
Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects
Antimatter cooled with lasers for the first time
Coronapod: the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine - what you need to know
Network of world's most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time
Coronapod: Why COVID antibody treatments may not be the answer
The AI that argues back
Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?
The smallest measurement of gravity ever recorded
Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research
Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions
The quark of the matter: what's really inside a proton?
Audio long-read: Thundercloud Project tackles a gamma-ray mystery
Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus
A mammoth discovery: oldest DNA on record from million-year-old teeth
Coronapod: Is mixing COVID vaccines a good idea?
Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on
Coronapod: Variants – what you need to know
Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets
Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm
Audio long-read: Push, pull and squeeze – the hidden forces that shape life
How a spinal device could relieve a neglected effect of cord injury
Hiring discrimination laid bare by mountain of data
Coronapod: The rise of RNA vaccines
The mysterious extinction of the dire wolf
Audio long-read: Controlling COVID with science - Iceland's story
Our podcast highlights of 2020
Coronapod: The big COVID research papers of 2020
Could you prevent a pandemic? A very 2020 video game
Don’t think too deeply about the origin of life – it may have started in puddles
Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans
Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice
Neutrinos give insights into the workings of the Sun’s core
Coronapod: What could falling COVID death rates mean for the pandemic?
The troubling rise of facial recognition technology
Audio long-read: The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period
Revealed: the impact of noise and light pollution on birds
A powerful radio burst from a magnetic star
Talking politics, talking science
Politics of the life scientific
A brief history of politics and science
Lab–grown brains and the debate over consciousness
The science behind an 'uncrushable' beetle’s exoskeleton
Superconductivity gets heated
Audio long-read: What animals really think
Trump vs. Biden: what's at stake for science?
Greenland's ice will melt faster than any time in the past 12,000 years
After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure
Genes chart Vikings' spread across Europe
A new way to cool computer chips — from within
Revealed: A clearer view of how general anaesthetics actually work
The challenge of reproducing results from ten-year-old code
3D-printing some of the world's lightest materials
The chemical that turns locusts from Jekyll into Hyde
Audio long-read: Pluto’s dark side is overflowing with secrets
Why skin grows bigger as you stretch it
When did people arrive in the Americas? New evidence stokes debate
Graphene’s magic angle reveals a new twist
Coronapod: Massive coronavirus outbreak strikes iconic Californian prison after it rejected expert aid
The six-year-old space agency with hopes for Mars
Coronapod: Lessons from pandemic ‘war-game’ simulations
What the atomic structure of enamel tells us about tooth decay
Coronapod: The state of the pandemic, six months in
How playing poker can help you make decisions
Coronapod: Dexamethasone, the cheap steroid that could cut coronavirus deaths
Incest in the elite of Neolithic Ireland
Long Read Podcast: Enigmatic neutron stars may soon give up their secrets
Coronapod: The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research
The quantum space lab
#ShutDownSTEM and the Nature Podcast
Coronapod: The heavy toll on people of colour
Lab-made skin grows its own hair
Coronapod: The divisive hydroxychloroquine study that's triggering mass confusion
Super-efficient catalyst boosts hopes for hydrogen fuel
Coronapod: Hope and caution greet vaccine trial result, and Trump vs the WHO
A synthetic eye that 'sees' like a human
Coronapod: The misinformation pandemic, and science funding fears
The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers, and the puzzle of urban smog
Coronapod: The dangers of ignoring outbreaks in homeless shelters, plus coronavirus and drug abuse
07 May 2020: Galileo and the science deniers, and physicists probe the mysterious pion
Coronapod: What use are contact tracing apps? And new hopes for coronavirus drug remdesivir
30 April 2020: A sniff test for consciousness, and how to cut antibiotics use — with vaccines
Coronapod: The race to expand antibody testing
23 April 2020: Denisovan DNA in modern Europeans, and the birth of an unusual celestial object
Coronapod: Troubling news
Coronapod: An untapped resource
09 April 2020: A plastic-recycling enzyme, and supercooled molecules
Coronapod: Ramping up responses
02 April 2020: Dating an ancient hominid skull, and an ancient Antarctic rainforest
Coronapod: Old treatments and new hopes
25 March 2020: Ultra-fast electrical switches, and computing heart health
Podcast Extra: Rosamund Pike on portraying Marie Curie
Coronapod: “Test, test, test!”
19 March 2020: Rosamund Pike in Radioactive, and the resurgence of Russian science
Podcast Extra: Coronavirus - science in the pandemic
Long Read Podcast: Are feelings more than skin deep?
12 March 2020: An ancient bird trapped in amber, and life beneath the ocean floor
05 March 2020: Ultrafast machine vision, and quicker crystal creation
Backchat: Covering coronavirus
27 February 2020: Mapping fruit flies’ neural circuitry, and perfecting the properties of metallic glass
Podcast Extra: ‘There is lots of anxiety’: a scientist’s view from South Korea
20 February 2020: Improving battery charging, and harnessing energy from the air
13 February 2020: The puzzling structures of muddled materials, and paving the way for the quantum internet
06 February 2020: Out-of-office emails and work-life-balance, and an update on the novel coronavirus outbreak
30 January 2020: Linking Australian bushfires to climate change, and Asimov's robot ethics
23 January: How stress can cause grey hair, and the attitude needed to tackle climate change
16 January 2020: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity
09 January 2020: A look ahead at science in 2020
01 January 2020: Our reporters’ top picks of 2019
Nature PastCast, December 1920: The Quantum Theory
Podcast Extra: From climate lawyer to climate activist
Podcast Extra: Epigenetics
19 December 2019: The three-body problem, and festive fun
Long Read Podcast: How to save coral reefs as the world warms
12 December 2019: Social priming, and acoustic science
05 December 2019: Genomic sequencing and the source of solar winds
Nature Pastcast, November 1869: The first issue of Nature
28 November 2019: Nature’s 2019 PhD survey, and older women in sci-fi novels
21 November 2019: A new antibiotic from nematode guts, grant funding ‘lotteries’, and butterfly genomes
14 November 2019: A rapid, multi-material 3D printer, and a bacterium’s role in alcoholic hepatitis
Backchat: Nature's 150th anniversary
07 November 2019: The fossil of an upright ape, science in 150 years, and immunization progress around the world
Nature Pastcast, October 1993: Carl Sagan uses Galileo to search for signs of life
31 October 2019: An AI masters the video game StarCraft II, and measuring arthropod abundance
Podcast Extra: Detecting gravitational waves
24 October 2019: Quantum supremacy and ancient mammals
17 October 2019: Mapping childhood mortality, and evolving ‘de novo’ genes
10 October 2019: Estimating earthquake risk, and difficulties for deep-learning
Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough
Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz
03 October 2019: Leapfrogging speciation, and migrating mosquitoes
Nature PastCast, September 1963: Plate tectonics – the unifying theory of Earth sciences
26 September 2019: Mysteries of the ancient mantle, and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Podcast Extra: Absurd scientific advice
Backchat: Covering Climate Now
19 September 2019: XKCD, and Extinction Rebellion
12 September 2019: Modelling early embryos, and male-dominated conferences
05 September 2019: Persistent antibiotic resistance, and modelling hot cities
Nature PastCast, August 1975: Antibodies’ ascendency to blockbuster drug status
29 August 2019: Carbon-based computing, and depleting ancient-human genomes
22 August 2019: Combating online hate speech, and identifying early fossils
15 August 2019: Atomic espionage in the Second World War, and exploring the early Universe
08 August 2019: A mindset for success, and mercury in fish
01 August 2019: The placental microbiome, and advances in artificial intelligence
Nature PastCast, July 1942: Secret science in World War 2
25 July 2019: The history of climate change, and making vaccines mandatory
Backchat July 2019: Breaking news, audience-led journalism and human gene editing
18 July 2019: Quantum logic gates in silicon, and moving on from lab disasters
11 July 2019: The moon, past, present, and future
04 July 2019: Machine learning in materials science, and sand’s sustainability
Nature PastCast, June 1876: Gorillas, man-eating monsters?
27 June 2019: Callused feet, and protein-based archaeology
20 June 2019: Non-native species, and a blood-inspired robot battery
13 June 2019: Mighty magnets, and aerosols in the atmosphere
06 June 2019: Microbes modifying medicine and kickstarting plate tectonics
Nature PastCast May 1983: Discovering the ozone layer hole
30 May 2019: Cold fusion, gender parity in universities, and studying wildfires
23 May 2019: Pre-industrial plankton populations, European science, and ancient fungi.
16 May 2019: Recoding genomes, and material from the Moon's far side
09 May 2019: Urban vs Rural BMI, and the health of rivers
02 May 2019: China's growing science network, and talking brain signals
Nature PastCast April 1953: The other DNA papers
25 April 2019: Tiny earthquakes, the genetics of height, and how US-China politics is affecting research
18 April 2019: Reviving brains, lightning, and spring books
Podcast Extra: The first image of a black hole
11 April 2019: Heart failure and vacuum field fluctuations.
04 April 2019: MDMA and the malleable mind, and keeping skin young
Backchat March 2019: Calls for a research moratorium, and the evolution of science reporting
28 March 2019: Human impacts on Mount Kilimanjaro, sex differences in pain, and a crystal-based cooling method
21 March 2019: Antibiotics in orchards, and rethinking statistical significance
Nature Pastcast March 1918: The eclipse expedition to put Einstein to the test
14 March 2019: Ebola in DRC, a new HIV treatment, and the proposed US budget.
07 March 2019: Coastal carbon-sinks, mobile health, and Mileva Marić
28 February 2019: Cuckoo parasitism, topological materials, and cannabinoids in yeast.
21 February 2019: Mouse cell atlases and cataloguing viruses
14 February 2019: Atherosclerosis and disruptive science
07 February 2019: Massive chemical libraries, and CRISPR-CasX
31 January 2019: Women of the periodic table, and harvesting energy from Wi-Fi
24 January 2019: Economic downturns and black holes
17 January 2019: RNA splicing in yeast, and a walking fossil
Podcast Extra: The search for a rare disease treatment
10 January 2019: Fast Radio Bursts and new year future gazing
26 December 2018: Our reporters' top picks of 2018
20 December 2018: Quantum physics adds a twist, and festive fun
Podcast Extra: Evidence of a ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s protein
13 December 2018: The art of performing science, and chiral chemistry
06 December 2018: Heart xenotransplants and phage fighting
29 November 2018: Atomic clock accuracy and wind farm worries
22 November 2018: An ion-drive aeroplane, and DNA rearrangement.
15 November 2018: Barnard’s Star, and clinical trials
08 November 2018: Designer cells, and a Breakthrough researcher
01 November 2018: Mood forecasting technology, and where are the WIMPs?
18 October 2018: Cannabis horticulture and the Sun's place in history
11 October 2018: The life of a new Nobel laureate and organised ants
04 October 2018: Latent HIV, bird personalities and the Hyabusa2 mission
27 September 2018: A wearable biosensor and a mechanical metamaterial.
20 September 2018: Negative emissions and swarms under strain
13 September 2018: The oldest drawing and the energy of data
6 September 2018: Space junk, and a physicist’s perspective on life
30 August 2018: Gravity’s big G and the evolution of babies
Backchat August 2018: Audio reporting, audience feedback, and Brexit
23 August 2018: Quantum computers and labour division in ants
16 August 2018: Bumblebees, opioids, and ocean weather
8 August 2018: Fox aggression, microbiota and geoengineering
02 August 2018: Zebra finch colour perception, terraforming Mars, and attributing extreme weather
26 July 2018: Conservation, automata, and pet DNA tests
19 July 2018: DNA scaffolds, climate-altering microbes, and a robot chemist
12 July 2018: Rats, reefs, and career streaks
05 July 2018: A DNA computer, the koala genome, and the invisibility of LGBTQ+ researchers
Backchat June 2018: Lab health, email briefings, and CRISPR
27 June 2018: Air pollution, sick plants, and stress
21 June 2018: Pancreatic cancer, silica cages, and AI bias
14 June 2018: Baobab tree death, zebrafish stem cells, and ice in Antarctica
07 June 2018: Magnetic animal migration, cold enzymes, and mouse memory
31 May 2018: Boosting diversity in physics, and life after an asteroid impact
24 May 2018: Climate costs, cleverer cab journeys, and peering through matter with muons
17 May 2018: Probing the proton, research misconduct, and making sense of mystery genes
10 May 2018: AI neuroscience, liquid crystals, and depression in academia
03 May 2018: Building early embryos, the fear response in mice, and ancient rhino remains
26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image
Backchat April 2018: Sexual harassment, social media, and celebrity scientists
19 April 2018: Synchronised shrimp, supernova science, and spring books.
12 April 2018: The power of remote sensing, and watching a neutron star glitch
05 April 2018: Human's influence on the Mississippi and 'dirty' mice
29 March 2018: AI in chemistry, and liquid droplets in living cells.
22 March 2018: Mexican cavefish, the gut microbiome, and a wearable brain scanner.
15 March 2018: Geoengineering Antarctica and increasing NMR’s resolution.
8 March 2018: Surprising graphene superconductors, and 50 years dreaming of electric sheep.
1 March 2018: Brain waves and a fingerprint from the early Universe
Backchat February 2018: Luck, debate, and the quantum internet
22 February 2018: A focus on adolescence
15 February 2018: Optical clocks, healthy ageing, and fieldwork during pregnancy
08 February 2018: Tough timber, magpie intelligence, and invasive crayfish
01 February 2018: Stone Age tools in India, and coral reefs in crisis
25 January 2018: Tiny robots, 3D images, and a honeycomb maze
18 January 2018: Climate sensitivity, and the fetal microbiome
10 January 2018: Conflict conservation, and the shape of a memory
Backchat December 2017: Trump, physics, and uncited papers
21 December 2017: Earth AI, a news quiz, and sci-fi
14 December 2017: Volcanoes, viruses & electric eels
7 December 2017: Exoplanet geology & duck-like dinosaurs
30 November 2017: Unnatural DNA & worm mothers
23 November 2017: Sleep deprivation & radioactive lightning
16 November 2017: Ancient inequality & bacterial communication
9 November 2017: Axolotls & treating a genetic skin condition
2 November 2017: Evolving verbs & Earth's microbiome
26 October 2017: Undead cells & Antarctic instability
19 October 2017: Neutron star gravitational waves & the future of work
12 October 2017: A dwarf planet & DNA sequencing
Nature Extra: 500th show compilation
Nature Podcast: 5 October 2017
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Grand Challenges: Energy
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Grand Challenges: Food security
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Grand Challenges: Ageing
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Grand Challenges: Mental Health
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Podcast Extra – The Psychology of Star Wars
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Podcast Extra: The Invention of Science
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Podcast Extra - A Beautiful Question
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Audiofile: In search of lost sound
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Audiofile: Real life Dr Dolittles
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