Nature Podcast

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you her favourite from August, The Shoulder of Orion, by Eric Garside Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

3 Sep 20156min

This week, weather forecasting, rethinking the water cycle, and a special segment to celebrate the podcast’s 400th episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2 Sep 201527min

In his new book, historian David Wootton takes us back to the scientific revolution around the turn of the 17th Century, and asks: was this really when modern science was born? Hosted on Acast. See ac...

26 Aug 201512min

This week, a new look at the scientific revolution, accelerating positrons on a plasma wave, and squashing the unsquashable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

26 Aug 201528min

Japan’s nuclear restart, summer quiet descends in the newsroom, and our special guest Geoff Brumfiel compares science reporting at Nature and NPR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

21 Aug 201519min

This week, China’s emissions are lower than we thought, lessons from Hurricane Katrina 10 years on, and inheriting genes… sideways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Aug 201525min

This week, making chemists’ lives easier, updating a centuries-old sunspot record, and anti-GM activists get their hands on scientists’ inboxes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

12 Aug 201516min

This week, lessons to learn from the Ebola epidemic, the reproductive habits of ancient organisms, and how the nuclear bomb changed the stories we tell about scientists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

5 Aug 201525min