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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Nature Podcast: 15 May 2014
15 May: This week, transforming baby-killing mice into caring dads using a genetic switch, how using male cells and animals could bias results, and how water loss in California may be moving mountains.
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Noah Baker reads you our favourite from April, Pop-ups, by Robert Dawson.
Nature Podcast: 08 May 2014
08 May: This week, scientists turn to crowd-sourcing to figure out the retina, reconstructing the evolution of the Universe, and a semi-synthetic organism with a man-made base pair.
Nature Podcast: 01 May 2014
01 May: This week, the deadly impact of two volcanic eruptions in recent human history, farmers turn into researchers to get better yields, and using stem cells to regenerate monkey hearts.
Nature Podcast: 24 April 2014
24 April: This week, the function of the Y chromosome, helping corals breed in the face of climate change, and the scientific life of author Beatrix Potter.
Nature Podcast: 17 April 2014
17 April: This week, how egg and sperm hook up, how the countryside benefits biodiversity, and harnessing the sun’s power for the developing world.
Nature Podcast Extra: The man who couldn’t stop
Nature Extra: Nature editor David Adam has lived with OCD for 20 years. In a new book he talks about his experiences and sets out our current understanding of the condition.
Nature Podcast: 10 April 2014
10 April: This week, a nasty parasite that eats cells alive, an ecological experiment floods the Colorado River delta, and the truth behind being an IPCC contributor.
Nature Podcast: 3 April 2014
3 April: This week, using the immune system to attack cancer, mapping the prenatal brain, and fifty years on from the discovery of an ancient human species. Plus, our favourite entries to Nature’s snappy sci-fi story competition, MicroFutures.
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen.