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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 Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors.

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04.21.2021 Meet the inflatable, origami-inspired structures The self-supporting structures that snap into place, and how a ban on fossil-fuel funding could entrench poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
04.16.2021 Coronapod: could COVID vaccines cause blood clots? Here's what the science says Reports of rare and unusual blood clots have resulted in several vaccine roll outs being paused while scientists scramble to work out if the vaccines are responsible and if so how. The unusual combination of symptoms, including a low platelet ...
04.14.2021 The sanitation crisis making rural America ill The lack of adequate sanitation in parts of the rural US, and physicists reassess muons’ magnetism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
04.09.2021 Coronapod: A whistle-blower’s quest to take politics out of coronavirus surveillance Rick Bright exposed former president Trump's political meddling in the US COVID response. Now he is championing a new privately funded initiative to track viral spread and combat new variants. We discuss the challenges of collecting data on a rapidly ...
04.06.2021 Audio long-read: Rise of the robo-writers This is an audio version of our feature: Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
04.02.2021 Coronapod: How to define rare COVID vaccine side effects From a sore arm to anaphylaxis, a wide range of adverse events have been reported after people have received a COVID-19 vaccine. And yet it is unclear how many of these events are actually caused by the vaccine. In the ...
03.31.2021 Antimatter cooled with lasers for the first time Laser-cooled antimatter opens up new physics experiments, and the staggering economic cost of invasive species. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
03.26.2021 Coronapod: the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine - what you need to know Since the beginning of the pandemic the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been plagued by confusion and controversy. The vaccine has been authorised in over 100 countries, tens of millions of doses have been administered, and it has been demonstrated to be ...
03.24.2021 Network of world's most accurate clocks paves way to redefine time A web of three optical atomic clocks show incredibly accurate measurements of time, and the trailblazing astronomer who found hints of dark matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
03.19.2021 Coronapod: Why COVID antibody treatments may not be the answer In the early days of the pandemic, researchers raced to identify the most potent antibodies produced by the immune system in response to SAR-COV-2 infection and produce them in bulk. The resulting ‘monoclonal antibodies’ have since been tested in a ...
03.17.2021 The AI that argues back A computer that can participate in live debates against human opponents. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
03.12.2021 Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know? Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been many open questions about how COVID-19 could impact pregnant people and their babies – confounded by a lack of data. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
03.10.2021 The smallest measurement of gravity ever recorded Physicists examine the gravitational pull between two tiny masses, and how fossil lampreys could shake-up the field of vertebrate evolution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
03.05.2021 Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory Where did the SARS-CoV-2 virus come from? As a team of researchers from the WHO prepares to report on its investigation into the origins of the virus, we discuss the leading theories, including the controversial ‘lab leak' hypothesis. See acast.com/privacy ...
03.03.2021 COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research The pandemic's unequal toll on the research community, and a newly discovered mitochondria-like symbiosis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.26.2021 Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.24.2021 The quark of the matter: what's really inside a proton? The surprising structure of protons, and a method for growing small intestines for transplantation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.23.2021 Audio long-read: Thundercloud Project tackles a gamma-ray mystery Researchers in Japan are trying to understand why thunderstorms fire out bursts of powerful radiation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.19.2021 Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus What’s the endgame for the COVID-19 pandemic? Is a world without SARS-CoV-2 possible, or is the virus here to stay? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.17.2021 A mammoth discovery: oldest DNA on record from million-year-old teeth Researchers sequence the oldest DNA ever recovered, and the people bringing art and science together. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.12.2021 Coronapod: Is mixing COVID vaccines a good idea? The science behind how and when to give vaccines doses. But what does the science say? In this week’s episode of Coronapod, we discuss mixing and matching vaccines and lengthening the time between doses. Approaches like these could ease logistical ...
02.10.2021 Human Genome Project - Nature’s editor-in-chief reflects 20 years on Looking back at the publication of the human genome, and how macrophages mend muscle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.05.2021 Coronapod: Variants – what you need to know Researchers are scrambling to understand the biology of new coronavirus variants and the impact they might have on vaccine efficacy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
02.03.2021 Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets Exploring the properties of a vanishingly-rare man-made element, and the AI that generates new mathematical conjectures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.29.2021 Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm A year ago the WHO’s coronavirus emergency alarm was largely ignored. Why? News: Why did the world’s pandemic warning system fail when COVID hit? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.28.2021 Audio long-read: Push, pull and squeeze – the hidden forces that shape life Researchers are probing the subtle physical forces that sculpt cells and bodies. This is an audio version of our feature: The secret forces that squeeze and pull life into shape See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.27.2021 How a spinal device could relieve a neglected effect of cord injury A neuroprosthetic device restores blood-pressure control after spinal-cord injury, and identifying the neurons that help us understand others’ beliefs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.20.2021 Hiring discrimination laid bare by mountain of data Analysis of millions of job seekers shows that recruiters will discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, and the neural circuitry behind a brief period of forgetting. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.14.2021 Coronapod: The rise of RNA vaccines Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker and Elie Dolgin discuss RNA vaccines. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.13.2021 The mysterious extinction of the dire wolf DNA clues point to how dire wolves went extinct, and a round-up of the main impacts of Brexit on science. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.30.2020 Audio long-read: Controlling COVID with science - Iceland's story Lessons from Iceland, which utilised huge scientific resources to contain COVID-19. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.23.2020 Our podcast highlights of 2020 The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.17.2020 Coronapod: The big COVID research papers of 2020 Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker and Traci Watson discuss some of 2020's most significant coronavirus research papers. In the final Coronapod of 2020, we dive into the scientific literature to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have discovered so much about ...
12.16.2020 Could you prevent a pandemic? A very 2020 video game A video game provides players with insights into pandemic responses, and our annual festive fun. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.09.2020 Don’t think too deeply about the origin of life – it may have started in puddles Scientists are shifting their thinking on where life might have arisen, and a new model to tackle climate change equitably and economically. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.03.2020 Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans Erna Solberg on fisheries, fossil fuels and the future of the oceans. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.02.2020 Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice A trio of genes may be key to making cells young again, and ultra precise measurement of a fundamental physics constant. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.25.2020 Neutrinos give insights into the workings of the Sun’s core Scientists have finally confirmed the existence of a CNO cycle fusion reaction in the Sun, and why women’s contraception research needs a reboot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.19.2020 Coronapod: What could falling COVID death rates mean for the pandemic? Around the world, COVID death rates are falling, but why? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.18.2020 The troubling rise of facial recognition technology Scientists have grave concerns over ethical and societal impacts of facial-recognition technology. In this surveillance special, we dig into the details. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.13.2020 Audio long-read: The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period New fossil finds and new techniques reveal evidence that early animals were more complex than previously thought. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.11.2020 Revealed: the impact of noise and light pollution on birds Researchers try to unpick the complex relationship between sensory pollutants and bird reproduction, and how to combat organised crime in fisheries. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.04.2020 A powerful radio burst from a magnetic star Astronomers pin down the likely origins of mysterious fast radio bursts, and the latest on what the US election means for science. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10.30.2020 Talking politics, talking science Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a three part series which aims to find out why. In the third and final episode we try to get to the bottom of how journalists, communicators ...
10.29.2020 Politics of the life scientific Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a three part series which aims to find out why. In this episode we're asking how politics shapes the life of a working scientist. Be it through ...
10.28.2020 A brief history of politics and science In this miniseries "Stick to the science" we explore the complex relationship between science and politics. In this first episode, we look back to history to try and unpick how this relationship has evolved and where Nature as a publication ...
10.28.2020 Lab–grown brains and the debate over consciousness The chances of mini brains becoming sentient, and a UK government decision threatens gender diversity in academia. 31:00 Briefing Chat We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, oncologists discover a potential new human organ, and how reexamined ...
10.21.2020 The science behind an 'uncrushable' beetle’s exoskeleton The structure of a beetle’s super-strong exoskeleton could open up new engineering applications, and efforts to address diversity and equality imbalances in academia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10.14.2020 Superconductivity gets heated A high pressure experiment reveals the world’s first room-temperature superconductor, and a method to target ecosystem restoration. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10.09.2020 Audio long-read: What animals really think Researchers are aligning data on animal neuronal activity with behavioural information recorded on millisecond timescales, to uncover the signatures of internal brain states associated with things like moods and motivation. This is an audio version of our feature: Inside the ...

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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

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