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 journalists and editors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.
00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophy
Nature: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
06:42 Humans and chimps share a laugh
Nature: Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled
In this episode:
00:46 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs
Research article: Knolle et al.
Correction: The story about medical AI-data privacy incorrectly stated that the number of individuals at high risk of a membership inference attack increases as training-dataset size grows. It should have stated that the increase in risk occurs when the AI model increases in capacity and size.
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Nature staff discuss preliminary data on the effects of GLP-1 drugs on male fertility plus a two-year trial of a brain-computer interface.
00:18 Brain-computer interface makes a life-changing impact
Nature: At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back
05:39 The possible benefits of obesity drugs on testosterone
Nature: The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sper...
In this episode:
00:45 Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks
Research article: Macleod et al.
12:33 Research Highlights
Nature: Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools
Nature: Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria
14:52 A prototype atom interferometer
Research article: Baynham et al.
Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science new...
In this episode:
00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacier
BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries
05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem
Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion an...
In this episode:
00:46 A giant, ancient whale necropolis
Research article: Peng et al.
News & Views: A vast whale necropolis has been found
08:52 Research Highlights
Nature: Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents
Nature: Earliest signs of vision recorded in ancient sea-floor tracks
11:11 Turning plant material into chemical building-blocks
Research article: Mains et a...
In this episode:
00:23 Fossil evidence that spinosaurs had an aquatic lifestyle
Science: Some spinosaurs cried salty tears to thrive in brackish waters
04:57 The explosive immune cells that kill in minutes
Nature: Bang! Exploding immune cells splatter potent toxins everywhere
In this episode:
00:57 How your smartphone’s camera could measure your heart rate
Research article: Liao et al.
08:55 Research Highlights
Nature: A star gone rogue tears through the Galaxy
Nature: Gold keeps glittering courtesy of surface chemistry
11:04 Should you try something new in a restaurant? Maths has the answer
Nature: Feynman solved the ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago &m...
In this episode:
00:21 When witnesses identify suspects from police line-ups, confidence matters
Nature: Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony
07:15 Registered Reports: how this ‘double peer review’ process could benefit scientists and their results
Nature: Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
On 17 May the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an ongoing Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Centred on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the outbreak has seen mounting numbers of suspected cases and deaths linked to the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus.
In this podcast we hear what's currently known about the outbreak and the efforts of clinicians, researchers and pub...
In this episode:
00:46 Meet the AI scientists designed to accelerate research
Research article: Ghareeb et al.
Research article: Gottweis et al.
Nature: Teams of AI agents boost speed of research
Editorial: Why AI cannot do good science without humans
Nature: Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll
13:25 Research Highlights
Nature: Dried to survive: desiccated tardigrades tolerate high heat
Nature: Pristin...
In this episode:
00:34 What questions remain about the hantavirus outbreak?
Nature: Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads
Nature: There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaks
In this episode:
00:42 Is red-light therapy all hype?
Disclaimer: The opinions and assertions expressed herein by Juanita Anders are those of the speaker and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences or the Department of War.
Nature: The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works
10:52 Research Highlights
Nature: T...
Although scientists have long been able to gather DNA from water and soil, it's only recently that they've started to see the air as a source of genetic information.
Airborne DNA is already being used to monitor individual species, but researchers hope its abundance could have multiple uses, including judging the success of conservation efforts or attacks with biological weapons.
However, there remains much to understand, such as...
00:31 The science of attention spans
Nature Feature: Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says
04:54 Data centres in space?
Nature News Explainer: AI data hubs in space: when will they take flight?
Nature Comment: Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions
In this episode:
00:42 Probing the unconscious brain’s processing ability
Research Article: Katlowitz et al.
Nature: Even the unconscious brain can learn — and predict what you’ll say next
12:32 Research Highlights
Nature: An electrifying test to find a good coffee
Nature: Forest pests hit trees hard as temperatures rise
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In this episode:
00:27 How a parasite unveiled a mitochondrial secret
Nature: Mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved
06:13 The extinct cephalopods that could have been enormous
Nature: Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues
Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, op...
In this episode:
00:45 How eating can boost the immune system
Research Article: Kumar et al.
08:28 Research Highlights
Nature: Cosmic-ray detection heralds era of mega-observatories for neutrinos
Nature: Little ants groom big ones in a desert spa
10:53 The pressing need to plan for future nuclear disasters
World View: Forty years after Chornobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevita...
In this episode of Nature hits the books, we speak with Nature's Helen Pearson whose book Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works looks at the history of using evidence, rather than opinion, in decision making.
The book traces the course of the movement in various disciplines, such as the rise of evidence-based medicine in the 90s, looking at the rebels who led the charge, the barriers they faced, and ...
In this episode:
00:45 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros
Research Article: Dürr et al.
News and Views: Robot can beat elite players at table tennis
Video: This robot can beat you at table tennis
14:13 Research Highlights
Nature: Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust
Nature: Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll
16:21 Why phy...
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