Science in 2025: what to expect this year
In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2025. We’ll hear about: the latest Moon missi...
Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career
Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples of weird research that he included in the Journal of Irreproduci...
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2024
00:36 How melting ice is affecting global timekeeping Nature Podcast: 27 March 2024 Research article: Agnew 09:19 Sex and gender discussions don't ...
Behind the scenes of Nature News and Views in 2024
02:54 The death star moon and a win for the little guys The shifting orbit of one of Saturn’s moons indicates that the satellite has a subsurface oce...
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2024
01:11 “Ozempic you’re able” In the first of our annual festive songs celebrating the science of the past year, we pay homage to Ozempic, or Semagluti...
Should offensive species names be changed? The organisms that honour dictators, racists and criminals
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...
Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice
00:45 A potential treatment for pre-eclampsia Researchers have shown in mice experiments that an mRNA-based therapy can reverse the underlying causes...
Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter
Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum has spent his career studying animals and how they communicate in the wild. In his book Why Animals Talk: The New Science o...
Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period
00:48 Chemotherapy efficacy varies with the menstrual cycle Breast cancer cells are more susceptible to chemotherapy at certain points in the menstru...
Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
AI tools that help researchers design new proteins have resulted in a boom in designer molecules. However, these proteins are being churned out faster...