The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors. For complete access to the original papers featured in the Nature Podcast, subscribe to Nature.
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Designing a nutritious and planet-friendly diet, and an AI that guides mathematicians.
Audio long-read: The chase for fusion energy
A host of private companies are promising commercial fusion reactors in the next decade.
Coronapod: everything we know about the new COVID variant
In a quickly developing story a new variant, first detected in Botswana, is triggering rapid action among researchers. The variant - currently named B.1.1.529 has more than 30 changes to the spike protein - and the concern is that these mutations may r...
Researcher careers under the microscope: salary satisfaction and COVID impacts
The Nature salary and satisfaction survey reveals researchers' outlook, and NASA’s test of planetary defences.
Sea squirts teach new lessons in evolution
Spineless sea squirts shed light on vertebrate evolution, and an iodine-fuelled engine powering a satellite in space.
Coronapod: new hope from COVID antiviral drugs
Two new anti-viral pills have been shown to be safe and effective against COVID in clinical trials, according to recent press releases. The drugs, molnupiravir, developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, and Paxlovid, developed by Pfize...
The past and future of the Earth's climate
Reassessing 24,000 years of global temperatures, and on the ground at COP26.
Audio long-read: How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?
Lake Kivu, nestled between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, is a geological anomaly that holds 300 cubic kilometres of dissolved carbon dioxide and 60 cubic kilometres of methane.