This week: the future of digital currency, a new lead for antibiotics, and 25 years of cataloguing the human genome.

Caffeine makes the adult world go round – but could it also be used as a therapy for premature babies? Several studies have suggested that in premature babies with breathing difficulties, caffeine could help stimulate them to breathe on their own and even have a positive effect on their brain development. But by contrast, a new study in Pediatric Research finds that a high dose of caffeine can have harmful effects.

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This week: looking back at malaria interventions, using private data for research, and how to twist a travelling neutron.

This week: Air pollution deaths, sperm whale languages, climate scientists, hiding nanoparticles, using theatre to communicate the food crisis, detecting gravity waves and anti-venom stocks dwindle in Africa.

This week: Embracing neurodiversity, explaining dark matter, giant frozen viruses, plankton poop ice clouds, safeguarding against quantum hackers and Wikipedia courts scientists.

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It will come as no news to the audience of Genetics in Medicine that keeping up with our field and securing adequate reimbursement is getting harder and harder. At least part of this is a result of our success and reflects the growing relevance of genetics to patient care. In this month's GenePod, the podcast of Genetics in Medicine, this topic is explored with reference to a recent article published in GIM that surveyed practitioners around the world about how they handle these issues.

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This week: Celebrating the 400th Nature Podcast, Earth's two water worlds, weather forecasting, controlling toad populations, how plastic pollution affects seabirds and quantum ‘spookiness’ passes new test.

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This week: The modern scientific revolution, squashing osmium, the search for dark matter, how hummingbirds drink, plasma particle accelerator, a Greenhouse gas loophole and the growing field of urban ecology.

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This week: Chinese emissions, the climate footprint of beef, dreaming eye movement, lessons from hurricane Katrina, sideways gene transfer, hydrogen sulphide superconductors and the Winter Olympic ski site outcry.

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This week: Chemical capsules as glove box alternatives, venomous head-butting frogs, the potential for another Nepal earthquake, corrections to 400-year-old sunspot records and anti-GM activists want access to scientist’s inboxes.

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