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Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
In this episode:
00:36 Study probes genetics of extreme longevity
Nature: Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longe…
8 months ago
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
00:46 Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding
Nature: Touponse et al.
11:34 Research Highlights
Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar sys…
8 months ago
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
This is an audio version of our Feature: ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
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8 months ago
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
In this episode:
00:24 How babies share their gut microbes
Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome
05:25 First evidence o…
8 months, 1 week ago
The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments
Nature: Pedalino et al.
News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists cr…
8 months, 1 week ago
Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
In this episode:
00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on Mars
Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will b…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope
In this episode:
00:47 AI can boost research productivity — at what cost?
Research article: Hao et al.
10:10 Research Highlights
Nature: Ancient ‘snowbal…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
00:54 Turning an undersea cable into a seismic detector
Researchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cabl…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Science in 2026: what to expect this year
In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2026. We’ll hear about: small-scale AI model…
9 months ago
Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast in the past few years, th…
9 months ago