Nature Podcast

Nature: 19 November 2009

Nature — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

19 November: Why paleontologists should predict instead of just describe, how to factor environmental goods into the economy, the cultural context of Darwin's theories and a round-up of other highlights from Nature.

Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev

Nature — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

We measure our economies in terms of trade, production and services - but one vital component is missing: the environment. Pavan Sukhdev is the study leader for a UN-run program on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, and he wants to see these resources accounted for. Kerri Smith talks to him.

Nature: 12 November 2009

Nature — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

12 November: How a language gene behaves in humans and chimps, determining orbiting planets from a star's lithium levels, the run up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

Nature: 5 November 2009

Nature — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

5 November: Scientists take a closer look at a star first spotted in 1680, how unrelated animals lend a helping hand, a 'Pleistocene Park' in the Netherlands, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

Nature: 29 October 2009

Nature — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

29 October: A new type of communication between brain cells is confirmed, a theory about how the Earth became watery, questioning whether the speed of light is constant, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

Nature: 22 October 2009

Nature — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

22 October: The effects of sleep deprivation on memory, 250 years of London's Kew Gardens, watching evolution in the lab, and climate change in the Himalayas.

Nature: 15 October 2009

Nature — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

15 October: Video game-playing mice, illiterate Columbian guerrillas, a magnet with only one pole, Nobel Prize-winner Elizabeth Blackburn, and in the news - a CERN scientist is charged with being a terrorist.

Nature: 8 October 2009

Nature — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

8 October: Saturn's enormous ring, the looming phosphate crisis, rapidly rising magma, a whole heap of human genetics, and this year's Nobel Prizes.

Nature: 1 October 2009

Nature — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

1 October: Sex chromosome evolution in stickleback and humans, cheat-resisting amoebae, and how powerful earthquakes may influence the strength of far-away faults.

Nature: 24 September 2009

Nature — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

24 September: Planetary boundaries that are not to be crossed, early humans and carbon dioxide levels, India's genetic diversity, the genomes behind an epidemic.

Nature: 17 September 2009

Nature — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

17 September: Gene therapy to correct colour blindness, droplets behaving weirdly, how warm temperatures in the past affected Greenland, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and live birth.

Nature: 10 September 2009

Nature — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

10 September: The genome behind the Irish potato famine, a new take on the Great Oxidation Event, how dying cells signal 'come-kill-me', and the week's news highlights.

Nature: 3 September 2009

Nature — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:00 +0000

3 September: The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'.

Nature: 27 August 2009

Nature — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

27 August: Gene therapy for mitochondrial mutations, a 'hot jupiter' spinning perilously close to its sun, science-themed songs for kids, toxicity testing, and a chance to win tickets to a private screening of the film Creation.

Nature: 20 August 2009

Nature — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

20 August: The search for gravity waves, rice 'snorkel' genes, the world's most famous fossil site, and the dark side of antioxidants.

Nature Insight: Metalloproteins

Nature — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Proteins that use metals to help them function are called metalloproteins. Join us as we learn how they choose their metal partners, what they use these metals for, and how studying them can help us explain everything from human diseases to the origin of life.

Nature: 13 August 2009

Nature — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

13 August: Glaciers, tectonic plates and mountain height, a mathematical packing problem solved, a history of hurricanes and the news round-up.

Nature: 6 August 2009

Nature — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

6 August: Burgeoning birth rates, the origin of cosmic rays, better models of pandemics and the economy, and jumping genes in the brain.

Nature: 30 July 2009

Nature — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:00:00 +0000

30 July: Mice made from induced stem cells, the early Earth's disordered insides, jellyfish stirring up the oceans, and Saturn's spinning speed.

Nature Extra: Simon Singh

Nature — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:00:41 +0000

Simon Singh: Science writer Simon Singh talks to Nature about his legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association and how UK libel laws affect science journalism.

Nature Extra: Ian McEwan

Nature — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:00:08 +0000

Ian McEwan: Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan often takes inspiration from science for his emotion-laden novels. He spoke at an event at University College London last week and Charlotte Stoddart chatted to him afterwards about emotion, literature and the brain.

Nature Extra: Nicholas Stern

Nature — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:59:15 +0000

Nicholas Stern: The author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change explains how the recession could help curb global warming and calls for 'the greatest collaboration the world has ever seen' to reduce global CO2 emissions.

Nature Extra: John Maddox

Nature — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:02:30 +0000

John Maddox: Senior editor Henry Gee remembers John Maddox, famed former Nature editor who died on April 12th 2009.

Nature Extra: Paul Bettany

Nature — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Paul Bettany: In this exclusive interview for Nature, Bettany talks about playing Darwin in the forthcoming film 'Creation'.

Podcast Extra: The Antikythera mechanism

Nature — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Podcast Extra: We talk to the author of a new book that traces the 2000 year history of the world's first computer, from ancient Greece, via the bottom of the sea, to 3D X-ray analysis in the pages of Nature.

Nature Extra: US Election

Nature — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

US election: Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama speak for themselves on the big science issues including space, stem cells and green energy.

Nature Extra: US Election

Nature — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

US election: The third of our special podcasts on hot science topics in the US election takes a look at innovation and technology.

Nature Extra: LHC switches on

Nature — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

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.

Nature Extra: US Election

Nature — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

US election: The second of our special podcasts on science in the US election looks at what the candidates are saying about biomedicine and health.