Nature Podcast
Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory
In this episode: 00:46 Mysterious methane emission from a cool brown dwarf The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing the makeup of brown dw...
The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation
In this episode: 00:46 Mapping ‘ghost roads’ in tropical forests Across the world, huge numbers of illegal roads have been cut into forests. However,...
Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Around the world, rates of cancers that typically affect older adults are increasing in those under 50 years old. Models based on global data predict ...
Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg
In this episode: 00:35 Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age — but giving birth turns it back Growing a baby leads to changes in the distribution...
How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
In this episode:01:28 Inflammation’s role in memory How memories are stored is an ongoing question in neuroscience. Now researchers have found an inf...
AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs
This podcast has been corrected: in a previous version at 5:55 we stated that that the team's 200mm devices currently contain only a couple of magneti...
Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why
In this episode:00:45 Making a map of the human heart The human heart consists of multiple, specialised structures that all work together to enable t...
These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment
In this episode:00:48 Bumblebees can learn new tricks from each other One behaviour thought unique to humans is the ability to learn something from y...
Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?
In this episode:00:49 What caused the Universe to become fully transparent? Around 13 billion years ago, the Universe was filled with a dense ‘fog’ o...
Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them
The phenomenon of animals catching diseases from humans, called reverse zoonoses, has had a severe impact on great ape populations, often representing...