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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 the Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's award-winning journalists.
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  1. This Arabian desert was once a lush paradise. Why did ancient humans avoid it?

    26 min

  2. Briefing Chat: How physicists successfully trapped the electron's antimatter equivalent

    14 min

  3. Scientists put a salt marsh in a giant wave-machine: here's what they learned

    19 min

  4. Audio long read: How to stay smart in the age of AI — the science of critical thinking

    16 min

  5. Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears

    9 min

  6. The world is closer to a major conservation target than scientists thought

    21 min

  7. Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies

    12 min

  8. Nobel Prizes 2026: ‘ghost’ particles, mirror molecules and light switches in the brain

    23 min

  9. ‘Learning about physics changed my life’: author Hernan Diaz on his new novel Ply

    32 min

  10. These optical illusions are why butterflies are so hard to catch

    18 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. Briefing Chat: Why scientists made papyrus scrolls, then burnt them

    11 min

  2. Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control

    24 min

  3. Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

    12 min

  4. Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex

    28 min

  5. Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air

    15 min

  6. Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close

    21 min

  7. Briefing Chat: How 1,000 pairs of buried underpants helped measure soil health

    12 min

  8. Audio long read: Could mending damaged DNA prolong life?

    18 min

  9. Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science

    14 min

  10. Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies

    19 min

  11. Briefing Chat: New narcolepsy drug could unlock host of novel brain therapies

    12 min

  12. A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star

    29 min

  13. Briefing Chat: Anthropic rolls out new AI watermark — will it make a difference?

    16 min

  14. The probiotic bacteria engineered to treat diabetes

    19 min

  15. Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole-rats offer tantalizing hints

    13 min

  16. Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick

    13 min

  17. Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why

    14 min

  18. Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization

    20 min

  19. Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils

    12 min

  20. What counts as a moon? Huge ‘exosatellite’ sparks debate

    23 min

  21. Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space

    9 min

  22. ‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule

    22 min

  23. Briefing Chat: The 30 year-legacy of a science icon – Dolly the sheep

    10 min

  24. Nukes in space? Orbital detector could sniff out warheads

    25 min

  25. Togetherness: How co-operation built the world

    31 min

  26. Audio long read: Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype

    16 min

  27. Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech

    11 min

  28. Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

    19 min

  29. Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm may get a boost from obesity drugs

    12 min

  30. DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague

    26 min

  31. Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone

    11 min

  32. Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years

    21 min

  33. Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments

    11 min

  34. Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate

    18 min

  35. Briefing Chat: When to trust eyewitness memory – according to science

    17 min

  36. Major Ebola outbreak is escalating: what happens next

    12 min

  37. AI ‘scientists’ promise to accelerate research — how do they work?

    27 min

  38. Briefing Chat: Hantavirus — what this outbreak reveals about the disease

    9 min

  39. Red-light therapy is all the rage — does it work?

    21 min

  40. Audio long read: The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

    19 min

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