Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data. Nature: 29 July 2010 by Nature [28 Jul 2010 at 1:00pm] 29 July: This week, how seismologists explain mid-plate earthquakes, 400 years of planetary science, a taster of the food and agriculture special, and the best of the rest in Nature. Listen Nature: 22 July 2010 by Nature [21 Jul 2010 at 1:00pm] 22 July: How climate change is making marmots fatter and fitter, imagining a world without mosquitoes, and the link between obesity and diabetes. Listen Nature: 15 July 2010 by Nature [14 Jul 2010 at 11:00am] 15 July: A treasure map for diamonds, crime and punishment, and the community of viruses found in poo. Plus, our weekly news round up. Listen Nature: 8 July 2010 by Nature [7 Jul 2010 at 1:00pm] 8 July: How human activity is increasing dust emissions, curbing cocaine addiction, early human settlers in Europe, and just how small is a proton? Plus, the best of the rest in Nature. Listen Nature: 1 July 2010 by Nature [30 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] 1 July: Face to face with a true leviathan, the earliest multicellular lifeforms, the benefits of going organic and blowing atoms apart from the inside with a giant x-ray laser. Listen Nature: 24 June 2010 by Nature [23 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] 24 June: The basis of a strange condition called blindsight, a function for pseudogenes, and storing quantum information encoded in light. Plus, the Nature Podcast Salary Survey Game Show. Listen Nature Extra: Rebecca Skloot by Nature [17 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] In 1951, a young woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cancer. Cells from her cancer were the first human cells to be grown in a lab, and became one of the most important tools in biology. But Henrietta knew none of this. Science writer Rebecca Skloot tells Henrietta's story in a new book, and she spoke to Nature's Kerri Smith. Listen Nature: 17 June 2010 by Nature [16 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] 17 June: The boundaries of humanity, tracking objects in the furthest reaches of the solar system, and an immortal contributor to science. Plus, what's hot elsewhere in Nature. Listen Nature: 10 June 2010 by Nature [9 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] 10 June: Jewish genomics, super speedy lasers, and climate change disbelievers. Plus, what's hot elsewhere in Nature. Listen Nature: 3 June 2010 by Nature [2 Jun 2010 at 1:00pm] 3 June: Mentoring by numbers, quantum physics gets frustrated, a new twist on the Big Bang theory and the best of the rest in Nature. Listen Nature: 27 May 2010 by Nature [26 May 2010 at 1:00pm] 27 May: A new species of island-dwelling dinosaur, canyons on Mars, busting blood clots and deception hunting at the airport. Listen Nature: 20 May 2010 by Nature [19 May 2010 at 1:00pm] 20 May: A new way to mass produce semiconductors, putting brain scanning on firm ground, and the effect of global warming on malaria. Listen Nature: 13 May 2010 by Nature [12 May 2010 at 1:00pm] 13 May: Studying natural selection in Caribbean lizards, testing the theory of common ancestry, a nanoscale factory strikes gold, and what made Dorothy Hodgkin such a great scientist. Listen Nature: 6 May 2010 by Nature [5 May 2010 at 1:00pm] 6 May: How scientists have cracked the splicing code, a muscle-mimicking material, a look back at the biggest earthquake ever recorded, and the best of the rest in Nature. Listen Nature: 29 April 2010 by Nature [28 Apr 2010 at 1:00pm] 29 April: How the similarities of identical twins go beyond their appearance, new dinosaur fossils shed light on the evolution of feathers, an asteroid study reveals some frosty findings, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature. Listen Nature: 22 April 2010 by Nature [21 Apr 2010 at 1:00pm] 22 April: Brain training put to the test, how the Red Sea could help refill the Dead Sea, a look into an exoplanet's atmosphere reveals unexpected results, and how loopholes in the Copenhagen Accord could mean we overshoot our targets on global warming. Listen Nature: 15 April 2010 by Nature [14 Apr 2010 at 1:00pm] 15 April: The 'missing' genes behind complex traits, why some cancer cells spread around the body, network theory explains a catastrophic power failure in Italy, and what's hot elsewhere in Nature. Listen Nature: 1 April 2010 by Nature [31 Mar 2010 at 1:00pm] 1 April: A new answer to an old paradox about the young Earth, over 20,000 human genes caught on camera, and a conference on agricultural research for development. Listen