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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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- Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

Fri, 26 May 2023
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- ‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost

Wed, 24 May 2023
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- JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail

Wed, 17 May 2023
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- Nature's Take: Can Registered Reports help tackle publication bias?

Fri, 12 May 2023
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- ‘Pangenome’ aims to capture the breadth of human diversity

Wed, 10 May 2023
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- Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up

Wed, 03 May 2023
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- Audio long read: Conquering Alzheimer’s — a look at the therapies of the future

Fri, 28 Apr 2023
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- How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten

Wed, 26 Apr 2023
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- A smarter way to melt down plastics?

Wed, 19 Apr 2023
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- How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden

Fri, 14 Apr 2023
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- Octopuses hunt by 'tasting' with their suckers

Wed, 12 Apr 2023
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- Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form

Wed, 05 Apr 2023
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- Audio long read: What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting

Fri, 31 Mar 2023
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- Bacterial ‘syringes’ could inject drugs directly into human cells

Wed, 29 Mar 2023
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- How to make driverless cars safer — expose them to lots of dangerous drivers

Wed, 22 Mar 2023
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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
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- 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
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- COVID deaths: three times the official toll

Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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- 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
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- 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
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- The satellite-free alternative to GPS

Wed, 23 Nov 2022
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- 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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