Podcast Episodes

Nature Extra: Futures May 2015

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite story from May, Tempus omnia revelat, by Tian Li.

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Nature Podcast: 28 May 2015

This week, the ethics of killer robots, laser weapons become a reality, and the subtleties of temperature.

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Audiofile: In search of lost sound

Are the sounds of the past lost forever? In the 1960s, an American engineer proposed that sound could be recorded into clay pots and paintings as the…

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Nature Podcast: 21 May 2015

The oldest stone tools yet found, making opiates from yeast and sugar, and the perks of sex… for beetles.

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Nature Podcast: 14 May 2015

This week, the latest result from the Large Hadron Collider, a memoir from neurologist and adventurer Oliver Sacks, and India’s scientific landscape.…

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Nature Podcast: 7 May 2015

This week, brain-inspired computers, scientists soldiering on past retirement age, and the origins of complex cells deduced from deep-sea samples.

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Nature Podcast: 30 April 2015

This week, a tiny bat-like dinosaur, a competitor for graphene, and the best new science books this spring.

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Audiofile: Real life Dr Dolittles

Will we ever be able to talk to animals? In this episode, Geoff Marsh meets a variety of researchers and animals who persevere at the communication b…

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Nature Podcast: 23 April 2015

This week, a new treatment for Ebola, the making of the Tibetan plateau, and could bees be addicted to pesticides?

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Nature: Backchat April 2015

The periodic table’s fuzzy edges, the nuances of reporting on animal research, and Richard gets charged up about some overhyped coverage of a new bat…

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