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How to make water that's full of holes
In this episode:
00:45 How adding pores helps water carry gas
Although water is an excellent solvent, it’s limited in its ability to dissolve gasses. T…
4 years, 1 month ago
Do protons have intrinsic charm? New evidence suggests yes
00:47 Evidence of a proton’s charm
For decades, scientists have debated whether protons have ‘intrinsic charm’, meaning they contain elementary partic…
4 years, 1 month ago
Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution
In this first episode of Nature's Take, we get four of Nature's staff around microphones to get their expert take on preprints. These pre-peer-review…
4 years, 1 month ago
Why low temperatures could help starve tumours of fuel
Cold exposure in mice activates brown fat to deny tumours glucose, and the future of extreme heatwaves.
00:45 How cold temperatures could starve tumo…
4 years, 1 month ago
Massive Facebook study reveals a key to social mobility
00:47 The economic benefits of social connections
By looking at data gathered from billions of Facebook friendships, researchers have shown that havin…
4 years, 2 months ago
Coronapod: the open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity
Inequity has been a central feature of the COVID19 pandemic. From health outcomes to access to vaccines, COVID has pushed long-standing disparities o…
4 years, 2 months ago
How humans adapted to digest lactose — after thousands of years of milk drinking
00:45 Working out how the ability to digest milk spread
Humans have been drinking milk for thousands of years, but it seems that they were doing so lo…
4 years, 2 months ago
How researchers have pinpointed the origin of 'warm-blooded' mammals
00:46 When did mammals start to regulate their temperature?
The evolution of ‘warm bloodedness’ allowed mammals to live in a more diverse range of hab…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ancient mud reveals the longest record of climate from the tropics
00:46 A long-term record of climate in the tropics
To understand the history of the Earth’s climate, researchers often rely on things like ice cores, …
4 years, 2 months ago
Higgs boson at 10: a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle
In this Podcast Extra, Nature's Lizzie Gibney and Federico Levi take a deep-dive into the Higgs boson, describing their experiences of its discovery,…
4 years, 2 months ago