Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 days 20 minutes
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from May, ‘Project Earth is leaving beta’ by J. W. Alden.
This week, how clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats.
This week, treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, and experimenting with history.
The endless quest to make fusion energy, virtual reality in the lab, and the biggest story of the month: a boat gets given a name.
This week, the Zika virus and birth defects, colliding quasi-particles, and combatting sprawling networks of spam.
Jonathan Shanklin was sifting through a backlog of data when he made the startling discovery of a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. In this podcast, he and others recall events in the mid-1980s and discuss how the 'ozone hole' became ...
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell read you their favourite from April, ‘Choices, in sequential order’ by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.
This week, the value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains’ energy demands.
This week, a language map of the brain, listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake, and the Soviet internet that never was.
The fuss over editing human embryos dies down, the quantum expertise of Canada’s Prime Minister, and what it’s like to report for 24 hours straight.