Nature Podcast

This week, camouflaging nanoparticles to deliver drugs, science meets theatre, and getting a global picture of air pollution.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, thinking differently about autism, plankton poop in the clouds, and hack-proofing our data.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Silberman's new book, Neurotribes, gives a detailed history of autism spectrum disorder. In this Podcast Extra, Geoff Marsh hears from Steve about how we, as a society, should embrace those who think differently.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from August, The Shoulder of Orion, by Eric Garside  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, weather forecasting, rethinking the water cycle, and a special segment to celebrate the podcast’s 400th episode.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In his new book, historian David Wootton takes us back to the scientific revolution around the turn of the 17th Century, and asks: was this really when modern science was born?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, a new look at the scientific revolution, accelerating positrons on a plasma wave, and squashing the unsquashable.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Japan’s nuclear restart, summer quiet descends in the newsroom, and our special guest Geoff Brumfiel compares science reporting at Nature and NPR.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, China’s emissions are lower than we thought, lessons from Hurricane Katrina 10 years on, and inheriting genes… sideways.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, making chemists’ lives easier, updating a centuries-old sunspot record, and anti-GM activists get their hands on scientists’ inboxes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, lessons to learn from the Ebola epidemic, the reproductive habits of ancient organisms, and how the nuclear bomb changed the stories we tell about scientists.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the ancient art of kirigami – paper cutting – applied to graphene. Plus, mini organs in dishes, and how mitochondria power our muscles.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from July, Outpatient, by Dan Stout  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pluto in pictures, ways to revamp science teaching, NASA’s underwater space-training mission, and listening for aliens.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, eyedrops could replace surgery for cataracts, the twists and turns of RNA, and a strain of rice that could feed more people and ease climate change.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, organic molecules in space, treating traumatic brain injury, and training schoolchildren to think like scientists.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is our universe beautiful? Do the fundamental laws that describe nature appeal to our aesthetic tastes? In this Podcast Extra, Frank Wilczek – theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate - discusses his latest book, which tackles this beautiful question.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the geologists on quake alert, stopping HIV in its tracks, and a volcano that wreaked havoc on the climate 1500 years ago.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, lizards change sex in the heat, a complex eye in a single celled creature, and teaching robots to be ethical  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from June, Heart worm, by J. J. Roth  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.