Nature Podcast

00:46 Why completing difficult tasks feels rewardingNature: Touponse et al. 11:34 Research HighlightsNature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times Nature: Getting to the (squ...

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In this episode: 00:24 How babies share their gut microbesNature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome 05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattleScience: No bull: This Aust...

00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experimentsNature: Pedalino et al. News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition' 11:46 Research ...

In this episode: 00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on MarsNature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost 05:24 The genetics of dogs’ droopy earsNa...

In this episode: 00:47 AI can boost research productivity — at what cost?Research article: Hao et al. 10:10 Research HighlightsNature: Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas Nature: Puttin...

00:54 Turning an undersea cable into a seismic detectorResearchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from California to Hawaii, allowing it ...

In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2026. We’ll hear about: small-scale AI models that could outcompete Large Language Models in re...

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast in the past few years, through online forums, weight-loss clinics and news h...

00:40 What a trove of potato genomes reveals about the humble spudResearchers have created a ‘pangenome’ containing the genomes of multiple potato types, something they believe can help make it easier...