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16 May 2019: Recoding genomes, and material from the Moon's far side
This week, rewriting the script of life, and a trip to the far side of the Moon.
09 May 2019: Urban vs Rural BMI, and the health of rivers
This week, body mass increases around the world, and river connections in decline.
02 May 2019: China's growing science network, and talking brain signals
This week, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and translating brain patterns into speech.
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast April 1953
This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our PastCast series, highlighting key moments in the history of science. Over 60 years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick published their f...
25 April 2019: Tiny earthquakes, the genetics of height, and how US-China politics is affecting research
This week we’ve got an extended News Chat between presenter Benjamin Thompson and Nature's European Bureau Chief Nisha Gaind. They discuss a new way to identify tiny earthquakes, new insights into the heritability of height, and how political tens...
18 April 2019: Reviving brains, lightning, and spring books
This week, restoring function in dead pig brains, spring science books, and the structure of lightning. If you have any questions about the partly-revived brains study, then the reporters at Nature are keen to answer them. You can submit them at the ...
Podcast Extra: The first image of a black hole
This week, researchers released the first image of a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy. In this special News Chat, Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi, who was at a press conference in Brussels where the image was announced, tells Benjamin Tho...
11 April 2019: Heart failure and vacuum field fluctuations.
This week, a new mouse model for heart failure and characterising energy fluctuations in empty space.
04 April 2019: MDMA and the malleable mind, and keeping skin young
This week, why MDMA could make social interactions more rewarding, and how your skin keeps itself youthful.
Backchat March 2019: Calls for a research moratorium, and the evolution of science reporting
In this month’s roundtable, our reporters discuss calls to pause heritable genome-editing research, and how science journalism has changed in the past 20 years.