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: 21 August 2008 by Nature [20 Aug 2008 at 1:00pm] 21 August: Self-sacrificing salmonella, 'magic' gold clusters, how brown fat cells could be a cure for obesity and the 'Woodstock' of science conferences. Listen Nature: 4 September 2008 by Nature [3 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] 4 September: Moth warning signals, how our genes reveal where we live, crunching massive datasets and Europe's first science blogging conference. Listen Nature Extra: Jeffrey Sachs by Nature [14 May 2008 at 1:00pm] Jeffrey Sachs: In this extended interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs, find out why he remains optimistic in the face of our ailing planet. Listen Nature Extra: X Files by Nature [6 Aug 2008 at 12:14pm] With a new movie version of the X Files now in cinemas, we chat to creator and director Chris Carter about science, conspiracy theories and FBI agents Mulder and Scully. Listen Nature: 28 August 2008 by Nature [27 Aug 2008 at 1:00pm] 28 August: Why antibiotics may be bad for innate immunity, extending human lifespan, when kids learn to share, and the trains, cars and ships of the future. Listen Nature: 10 July 2008 by Nature [9 Jul 2008 at 1:00pm] 10 July: The brain's fear switch, how flatfish evolved to be lopsided, aftershock predictions in the Chinese region hit by May's massive earthquake, and how the sly Ebola virus hides under a carbohydrate 'cloak'. Listen Nature: 24 July 2008 by Nature [23 Jul 2008 at 1:00pm] 24 July: The rapid rise of China's energy needs and scientific ambitions, how light receptors in fly eyes give them a magnetic sense, dangerously high levels of arsenic in the Mekong delta and the major role of snail-castrating parasites in ecosystems in Baja California. Listen Nature Extra: Steven Pinker by Nature [11 Jun 2008 at 1:00pm] Steven Pinker: Harvard experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker talks to Kerri Smith about courtesy, quantum physics, concepts and cursing. Listen Nature Extra: Eppendorf by Nature [18 Jun 2008 at 1:00pm] Eppendorf: In the second episode of this special podcast from Nature on the Eppendorf Young Investigators' Award, Kerri Smith talks to last year's winner, Monica Bettencourt-Dias, who works on cell replication at the Gulbenkian Institute in Oeiras, Portugal. Listen Nature Extra: Science and Music by Nature [2 Jul 2008 at 1:00pm] Science and music: What is it about music that moves us? Why does it seem to be universal in humans? And what can science tell us about the hows and whys of our musical minds? Find out in this extended interview with music psychologist John Sloboda and Nature's Phil Ball. Listen Nature: 17 July 2008 by Nature [16 Jul 2008 at 1:00pm] 17 July: NASA's hot air balloon team, life aboard an icebreaker, how scientists have glimpsed the lightest atoms in action, and 30 years on from the first test-tube baby, what's next for IVF? Listen Nature: 7 August 08 by Nature [6 Aug 2008 at 11:01am] The Earth's lopsided inner core, viruses inside viruses, an electronic camera that's built like a human eye, and science on the X Files. Listen Nature Extra: Schizophrenia by Nature [30 Jul 2008 at 10:29am] For more on what these rare deletions can tell us about the genetics of schizophrenia, listen to Kari Stefansson, CEO and founder of deCODE genetics, on this week's Nature Podcast. Listen Nature: 31 July 2008 by Nature [30 Jul 2008 at 10:51am] The origins of snake fangs, an ethane lake on Saturn's largest moon, the genetics of schizophrenia and an ancient Greek computer. Listen Nature Extra: US Election by Nature [17 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] US election: The third of our special podcasts on hot science topics in the US election takes a look at innovation and technology. Listen Nature: 18 September 2008 by Nature [17 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] 18 September: Portable plants in climate research, big questions for evolutionary biologists, the evolution of teeth, the origins of the mouth and anus and innovation and technology in the US election. Listen Nature: 14 August 2008 by Nature [13 Aug 2008 at 1:00pm] 14 August: Electricity without carbon, 'hidden' cholera infections, how scientists measure the most remote part of our planet and the spooky world of quantum entanglement. Listen Nature Extra: Big Data by Nature [3 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] Big Data: As Google celebrates its 10th anniversary, we find out how science is coping with massive datasets generated by unprecedented computing power. BoingBoing blogger Cory Doctorow tells us about his visits to the LHC data storage facility and the genome sequencing Sanger Centre. Listen Nature: 11 September 2008 by Nature [10 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] 11 September: Vesuvius' inner rumblings, a mystery of mathematical skill, biomedicine and the US elections, fake plastic trees and the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider. Listen Nature Extra: LHC switches on by Nature [10 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] The LHC switches on: The Large Hadron Collider is finally ready to go. Geoff Brumfiel talks to CERN theorist John Ellis about his hopes for the project - and what happens if there are no Higgs bosons. Listen Nature: 25 September 2008 by Nature [24 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm] 25 September: The evolutionary move from fins to fingers, a rare and rather flashy dead star and how gut bacteria help stop the development of type 1 diabetes. Listen Nature: 2 October 2008 by Nature [2 Oct 2008 at 1:00pm] 2 October: Fishy evolution in Lake Victoria, a tiny device for sensing magnetic fields, how some old wax-encased tissue samples hint at the life-story of HIV and the microscopic world of RNA. Listen