Nature Podcast

805 - Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026

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 journalists and editors.

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805 - Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026

Fri, 28 Jun 2024
804 - Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat

Wed, 26 Jun 2024
803 - How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer

Wed, 19 Jun 2024
802 - Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity

Wed, 12 Jun 2024
801 - Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinformation

Wed, 05 Jun 2024
800 - How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets

Wed, 29 May 2024
799 - How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists

Tue, 28 May 2024
798 - Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models

Fri, 24 May 2024
797 - Fentanyl addiction: the brain pathways behind the opioid crisis

Wed, 22 May 2024
796 - Lizard-inspired building design could save lives

Wed, 15 May 2024
795 - Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade

Wed, 08 May 2024
794 - Talking about sex and gender doesn't need to be toxic

Thu, 02 May 2024
793 - Dad's microbiome can affect offsprings' health — in mice

Wed, 01 May 2024
792 - Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health

Fri, 26 Apr 2024
791 - How gliding marsupials got their 'wings'

Wed, 24 Apr 2024
790 - Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why

Fri, 19 Apr 2024
789 - Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory

Wed, 17 Apr 2024
788 - The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation

Wed, 10 Apr 2024
787 - Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

Fri, 05 Apr 2024
786 - Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg

Wed, 03 Apr 2024
785 - How climate change is affecting global timekeeping

Wed, 27 Mar 2024
784 - AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs

Wed, 20 Mar 2024
783 - Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why

Wed, 13 Mar 2024
782 - These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment

Wed, 06 Mar 2024
781 - Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?

Wed, 28 Feb 2024
780 - Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them

Mon, 26 Feb 2024
779 - How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved

Fri, 23 Feb 2024
778 - Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test

Wed, 21 Feb 2024
777 - Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting

Wed, 14 Feb 2024
776 - Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer

Fri, 09 Feb 2024
775 - Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells

Wed, 07 Feb 2024
774 - Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how

Sun, 04 Feb 2024
773 - Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools

Wed, 31 Jan 2024
772 - Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why

Fri, 26 Jan 2024
771 - Toxic red mud could be turned into 'green' steel

Wed, 24 Jan 2024
770 - This AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?

Wed, 17 Jan 2024
769 - The science stories you missed over the holiday period

Wed, 10 Jan 2024
768 - Science in 2024: what to expect this year

Wed, 03 Jan 2024
767 - Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy?

Fri, 29 Dec 2023
766 - The Nature Podcast highlights of 2023

Wed, 27 Dec 2023
765 - How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem

Fri, 22 Dec 2023
764 - The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2023

Wed, 20 Dec 2023
763 - Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields

Fri, 15 Dec 2023
762 - Inhaled vaccine prevents COVID in monkeys

Thu, 14 Dec 2023
761 - Cat parasite Toxoplasma tricked to grow in a dish

Wed, 13 Dec 2023
760 - The world’s smallest light-trapping silicon cavity

Wed, 06 Dec 2023
759 - Sanitary products made from plants could help tackle period poverty

Thu, 30 Nov 2023
758 - Why COP28 probably won't keep the 1.5 degree dream alive

Wed, 29 Nov 2023
757 - Audio long read: Apple revival — how science is bringing historic varieties back to life

Fri, 24 Nov 2023
756 - Polio could be eradicated within 3 years — what happens then?

Wed, 22 Nov 2023