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

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Category: Science & Medicine

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- How to build a virus-proof cell

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
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- How the Australian wildfires devastated the ozone layer

Wed, 08 Mar 2023
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- How an increased heart rate could induce anxiety in mice

Wed, 01 Mar 2023
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- Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science

Mon, 27 Feb 2023
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- Audio long read: How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity

Fri, 24 Feb 2023
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- A twisting microscope that could unlock the secrets of 2D materials

Wed, 22 Feb 2023
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- How 'metadevices' could make electronics faster

Wed, 15 Feb 2023
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- This mysterious space rock shouldn’t have a ring — but it does

Wed, 08 Feb 2023
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- How mummies were prepared: Ancient Egyptian pots spill secrets

Wed, 01 Feb 2023
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- Audio long read: The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers

Mon, 30 Jan 2023
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- Amino acid slows nerve damage from diabetes, in mouse study

Wed, 25 Jan 2023
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- Laser 'lightning rod' diverts strikes high in the Alps

Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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- The science stories you missed over the past four weeks

Wed, 11 Jan 2023
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- Science in 2023: what to expect this year

Fri, 06 Jan 2023
690
- The Nature Podcast’s highlights of 2022

Wed, 28 Dec 2022
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- The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2022

Wed, 21 Dec 2022
688
- COVID deaths: three times the official toll

Wed, 14 Dec 2022
687
- Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old ecosystem

Wed, 07 Dec 2022
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- Gaia Vince on how climate change will shape where people live

Fri, 02 Dec 2022
685
- Mysterious fluid from ant pupae helps feed colony

Wed, 30 Nov 2022
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- Audio long read: Science and the World Cup — how big data is transforming football

Fri, 25 Nov 2022
683
- The satellite-free alternative to GPS

Wed, 23 Nov 2022
682
- How a key Alzheimer's gene wreaks havoc in the brain

Wed, 16 Nov 2022
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- Audio long read: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?

Mon, 14 Nov 2022
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- Molecular cages sift 'heavy' water from near-identical H2O

Wed, 09 Nov 2022
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- Audio long read: The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby

Fri, 04 Nov 2022
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- Flies can move their rigid, omnidirectional eyes – a little

Wed, 02 Nov 2022
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- Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine

Fri, 28 Oct 2022
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- Ancient DNA reveals family of Neanderthals living in Siberian cave

Wed, 26 Oct 2022
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- Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease

Wed, 12 Oct 2022
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- Virtual library of LSD-like drugs could reveal new antidepressants

Wed, 05 Oct 2022
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- Nature's Take: How the war in Ukraine is impacting science

Mon, 03 Oct 2022
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- Audio long read: What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns

Fri, 30 Sep 2022
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- A trove of ancient fish fossils helps trace the origin of jaws

Wed, 28 Sep 2022
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- Huge dataset shows 80% of US professors come from just 20% of institutions

Wed, 21 Sep 2022
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- Complex synthetic cells bring scientists closer to artificial cellular life

Wed, 14 Sep 2022
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- Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation

Wed, 07 Sep 2022
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- Audio long read: Hybrid brains – the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals

Fri, 26 Aug 2022
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- How to make water that's full of holes

Wed, 24 Aug 2022
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- Do protons have intrinsic charm? New evidence suggests yes

Wed, 17 Aug 2022
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- Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution

Mon, 15 Aug 2022
663
- Why low temperatures could help starve tumours of fuel

Wed, 10 Aug 2022
662
- Massive Facebook study reveals a key to social mobility

Wed, 03 Aug 2022
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- Coronapod: the open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity

Fri, 29 Jul 2022
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- How humans adapted to digest lactose — after thousands of years of milk drinking

Wed, 27 Jul 2022
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- How researchers have pinpointed the origin of 'warm-blooded' mammals

Wed, 20 Jul 2022
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- Ancient mud reveals the longest record of climate from the tropics

Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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- Higgs boson at 10: a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle

Mon, 11 Jul 2022
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- Coronapod: detecting COVID variants in sewage

Fri, 08 Jul 2022
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- Higgs boson turns ten: the mysteries physicists are still trying to solve

Wed, 06 Jul 2022

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