Nature Podcast
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people
00:45 Treating mosquitoes for malaria Researchers have developed two compounds that can kill malaria-causing parasites within mosquitoes, an approach...
How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
00:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road trip Researchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by putti...
NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
In this Podcast Extra, we examine recent developments US National Science Foundation, which has seen significant numbers of research grants terminated...
Herring population loses migration 'memory' after heavy fishing
00:46 How fishing activity altered the migration pattern of Herring Selective fishing of older herring has resulted in a large shift in the migration...
The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
In this episode: 00:46 What will be left of US science after Trump 2.0? 100 days into his term, President Donald Trump and his administration have a...
Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries. While some scientists p...
A brand-new colour created by lasers, a pig-liver transplant trial gets the green light, and a nugget-sized chunk of lab-grown meat
00:27 Five people see ‘olo’, a brand-new colour Using a laser system to activate specific eye cells, a team has allowed five study participants to pe...
‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers
Categorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems scientists have created to name everything from the trenches on the sea bed...
What a trove of potato genomes reveals about the humble spud
In this episode: 00:46 A potato pangenome Researchers have created a ‘pangenome’ containing the genomes of multiple potato types, something they bel...
Long-awaited ape genomes give new insights into their evolution — and ours
00:46 Complete sequencing of ape genomes Researchers have sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, helping uncover the evolutionary history...