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How playing poker can help you make decisions
On this week’s podcast, life lessons from poker, and keeping things civil during peer review.
In this episode:
00:44 Deciding to play poker
When writer …
6 years, 3 months ago
Coronapod: Dexamethasone, the cheap steroid that could cut coronavirus deaths
In this episode:
00:37 Lessons from the Ebola outbreak
We get an update on the pandemic response in the African countries still reeling from the 2014 E…
6 years, 3 months ago
Incest in the elite of Neolithic Ireland
This week, researchers make diamonds tough, and evidence of incest in a 5,000 year old tomb.
In this episode:
00:51 Tough versus hard
Diamonds are famed…
6 years, 3 months ago
Long Read Podcast: Enigmatic neutron stars may soon give up their secrets
An instrument on the International Space Station is providing new insights into some of the Universe’s most baffling objects.
Neutron stars have puzzl…
6 years, 3 months ago
Coronapod: The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research
In this episode:
00:52 Testing disparities
As testing capacities increase, it is clear that not everyone has equal access. But grassroots organisations…
6 years, 3 months ago
The quantum space lab
This week, the spaceborne lab that allows investigation of quantum states, and the debate surrounding how mountain height is maintained.
Shutdown Stem…
6 years, 3 months ago
#ShutDownSTEM and the Nature Podcast
On the tenth of June, Nature will be joining #ShutdownStem #strike4blacklives. We will be educating ourselves and defining actions we can take to hel…
6 years, 3 months ago
Coronapod: The heavy toll on people of colour
In this episode:
00:45 Black Lives Matter
The killing of George Floyd, a black man, by police in Minnesota has sent a shockwave of anger around the glo…
6 years, 4 months ago
Lab-made skin grows its own hair
This week, a new method to grow hairy skin in a dish, and new research takes aim at the RNA world hypothesis.
In this episode:
00:45 Hairy Skin
Research…
6 years, 4 months ago
Coronapod: The divisive hydroxychloroquine study that's triggering mass confusion
00:59 Chloroquine on rocky ground
President Trump's preferred coronavirus treatment is the focus of a new study suggesting it could cause more harm th…
6 years, 4 months ago