Nature Podcast
By Nature Publishing Group
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Podcast Description
Each week Nature publishes a free audio show. It's hosted by Adam Rutherford and Kerri Smith and features reporters Charlotte Stoddart, Geoff Brumfiel and Natasha Gilbert. Every show features highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. For complete access to the original papers featured in the Nature Podcast, subscribe to Nature.
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Nature: 24 May 2012 | 24 May: This week, strict diets and stem cells, how the goliaths of the ocean trawl for food, and how songbirds learn their tune. | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature Extra: Chasing Venus | Nature Extra: In 1761 and 1769, astronomers across the world watched Venus pass in front of the sun. Working together, they hoped to calculate the size of the solar system. Andrea Wulf recounts a thrilling tale of Enlightenment science and discovery. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 17 May 2012 | 17 May: This week, the transits of Venus, paralysed patients move a robotic arm with their thoughts, and 'superflares'. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 10 May 2012 | 10 May: This week, what to do with plutonium stockpiles, and what happens when you eat irradiated venison. Plus, a linguistic spat and mini-mammals in the news chat. | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 03 May 2012 | 03 May: This week, a human evolution special, some flu news and a warning about the real cost of species loss. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature Extra: Futures | Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads his favourite from this month, Monkeys, by Ken Liu. | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 26 April 2012 | 26 April: This week, organic versus inorganic farming, a long-running study of development comes of age and experiments on the edge of acceptability. | 25 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 19 April 2012 | 19 April: This week, the risks of adverse space weather, what triggered the evolution of complex life in the seas, and how we tell one voice from another in a crowd. | 18 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 12 April 2012 | 12 April: This week, fungal threats, quantum networking and science on the subcontinent. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 05 April 2012 | 05 April: This week, a feathery tyrannosaur, financial incentives in science and a disease blowing in the wind. | 4 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature Extra: Futures | Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads his favourite from this month, Knowledge, by John Frizell. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 29 March 2012 | 29 March: This week, a new hominin foot, coral hints at long-ago sea-level rise, and Africa’s soil fertility problem. | 28 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 22 March 2012 | 22 March: This week on the Nature Podcast, resurrecting ancient proteins, treating Rett syndrome with a bone marrow transplant and a huge archive of natural soundscapes. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | 21 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 15 March 2012 | 15 March: This week on the Nature Podcast, the quest for the bean without the buzz, what happens when you split the brain in half, and what a brainless worm can tell us about our own grey matter. | 14 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 08 March 2012 | 08 March: The Nature Podcast this week visits some primate relatives, takes a look at megaquakes, and revisits Japan one year on from the earthquake and tsunami. | 7 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 01 March 2012 | 01 March: This week, a fossilised forest, a high-tech clinic in a low-tech community, deciphering the Rosetta Stone, and a mathematical model that could help avoid commuter snarl-ups. | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature Extra: Futures | Nature Extra: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Nature Editor Henry Gee reads his favourite from this month, Ghost in the Machine, by Grace Tang. | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature Extra: Alan Turing | Original computer whizz Alan Turing was born 100 years ago. His biographer, Andrew Hodges, tells us about Turing's famous 1936 paper on computable numbers, his contribution to cracking the German Enigma ciphers, and his thoughts on machine intelligence. | 27 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 23 February 2012 | 23 February: This week, the achievements of original computer whizz Alan Turing, the Earth Microbiome Project, and is the Y chromosome really on its way out? | 22 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 16 February 2012 | 16 February: This week, evolution spins into reverse, light echoes spotted from a long-exploded star, and prion proteins show us their useful side. | 15 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 09 February 2012 | 09 February: This week, a Guatemalan case history of unethical research, where the next supercontinent will form, and doing science in museums. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 02 February 2012 | 02 February: This week, humungous supervolcanoes, using elephants to control Australia’s wildfires, and should we regulate sugar like we do alcohol and tobacco? Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | 1 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 26 January 2012 | 26 January: This week, shipwreck hunting off the coast of Crete, insights into Alzheimer's from reprogrammed cells and a research tool called 'primitive facebook'. Plus, the best of the rest of this week's Nature. | 25 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 19 January 2012 | 19 January: This week, the changing face of the Amazon, the genetics of staying sharp as you age and crowd-sourced funding. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 12 January 2012 | 12 January: This week, a whale hunting quota, a new exercise hormone and how complexity evolves. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. | 11 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 05 January 2012 | 05 January: This week, the five hardest experiments and a look forward to science in 2012. | 4 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 22 December 2011 | 22 December: Two Earth-like planets discovered, a gut reaction to traditional Asian medicine, and the people who have shaped science in 2011. | 21 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 15 December 2011 | 15 December: The elusive Higgs, a nearby supernova goes bang, a worrying ruling for stem cell research in Europe and why the Mediterranean went through a dry patch. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 08 December 2011 | 08 December: This week, record-busting black holes, out-of-body illusions and Asia's space race. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | 7 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nature: 01 December 2011 | 01 December: This week, Antarctic explorer Scott the scientist, overlooked parts of the cell and the Earth's early atmosphere. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature. | 30 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Splendid !
Excellent content from a wide cross section of the magazine articles. The depth is right for the podcast and the summary at the end of each article is a welcome aide-memoir. I wish it was longer but you can't have everything. It is also presented by a man who clearly knows what he is doing and does not sound like a has-been reject of some failed American mid-afternoon quiz show who sports an appallingly obvious comb-over. A very good podcast. Very good indeed. In fact I'm going to become a subscriber to the print magazine. Right now.
Brilliant
As a uni student, i find the frequency of the nature journal hard to digest, these podcasts are excellent breakdowns, only with some geological journals were avaliable as such!!
One of the better science podcasts out there
Good mixture of topics, nicely produced. Definitely worth subscribing to.
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- Language: English
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