Podcast Episodes

Weirdly flowing water finally has an explanation: 'quantum friction'

How quantum friction explains water’s strange flows in carbon nanotubes, and the latest from the Nature Briefing.

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4 years, 8 months ago

Coronapod: Why T cells have been overlooked

Much of the coverage of COVID immunity often focuses on antibody response and for good reason - these small, y-shaped proteins can detect, and in som…

4 years, 8 months ago

How can battery-powered aircraft get off the ground?

Getting electric planes to take off, and the latest from the Nature Briefing.

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4 years, 8 months ago

Audio long read: Is precision public health the future — or a contradiction?

The burgeoning field of precision public health is a tech-centric approach that looks to target public-health interventions to the specific people wh…

4 years, 8 months ago

Coronapod: COVID death toll is likely millions more than official counts

As of January 2022, the WHO reports that 5.5 million people have lost their lives to the pandemic. However, many research groups suggests that this n…

4 years, 8 months ago

Why mutation is not as random as we thought

Challenging the dogma of gene evolution, and how chiral nanoparticles could give vaccines a boost.

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4 years, 8 months ago

Podcast Extra: Recreating the lost sounds of spring

As our environments change, so too do the sounds they make — and this change in soundscape can effect us in a whole host of ways, from our wellbeing …

4 years, 8 months ago

Webb Space Telescope makes history after tense launch

In this episode of the Nature Podcast, we catch up on the biggest science stories from the holiday period by diving into the Nature Briefing.

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4 years, 8 months ago

Science in 2022: what to expect this year

In this episode, Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2022. We'll hear about vaccines…

4 years, 9 months ago

Audio long-read: The secret lives of cells — as never seen before

Cutting-edge microscopy techniques are letting researchers visualize biological molecules within cells, rather than studying them in isolation. This …

4 years, 9 months ago