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Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data.
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Nature: 24 July 2008
from Nature Podcast on July 23, 2008
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24 July: The rapid rise of China's energy needs and scientific ambitions, how light receptors in fly eyes give them a magnetic sense, dangerously high levels of arsenic in the Mekong delta and the major role of snail-castrating parasites in ecosystems in Baja California.
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Nature: 17 July 2008
from Nature Podcast on July 16, 2008
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17 July: NASA's hot air balloon team, life aboard an icebreaker, how scientists have glimpsed the lightest atoms in action, and 30 years on from the first test-tube baby, what's next for IVF?
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Nature: 10 July 2008
from Nature Podcast on July 09, 2008
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10 July: The brain's fear switch, how flatfish evolved to be lopsided, aftershock predictions in the Chinese region hit by May's massive earthquake, and how the sly Ebola virus hides under a carbohydrate 'cloak'.
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Nature Extra: Science and Music
from Nature Podcast on July 02, 2008
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Science and music: What is it about music that moves us? Why does it seem to be universal in humans? And what can science tell us about the hows and whys of our musical minds? Find out in this extended interview with music psychologist John Sloboda and Nature's Phil Ball.
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Nature: 03 July 2008
from Nature Podcast on July 02, 2008
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03 July: A journey to the edge of the solar system with Voyager 2, a simpler recipe for stem cells, musical minds, an increase in extinction risk predicted by a new model, and the reincarnation of Schroedinger's cat.
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Nature: 26 June 2008
from Nature Podcast on June 25, 2008
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26 June: Explosive underwater volcanoes, the largest impact structure in the Solar System and why Darwin, not Wallace, became biology's biggest celebrity.
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Nature Extra: Eppendorf
from Nature Podcast on June 18, 2008
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Eppendorf: In the second episode of this special podcast from Nature on the Eppendorf Young Investigators' Award, Kerri Smith talks to last year's winner, Monica Bettencourt-Dias, who works on cell replication at the Gulbenkian Institute in Oeiras, Portugal.
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Nature: 19 June 2008
from Nature Podcast on June 18, 2008
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19 June: A pair of not-so-identical twin stars, how McDonald's golden arches drive business and the genome club's newest member.
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Nature: 12 June 08
from Nature Podcast on June 11, 2008
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12 June: Thoughts about language with Steven Pinker, the effects of an acidifying sea, what fMRI scans actually show us, risky decision-making in humans and honeybees, and getting medicine from bench to bedside.
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Nature Extra: Steven Pinker
from Nature Podcast on June 11, 2008
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Steven Pinker: Harvard experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker talks to Kerri Smith about courtesy, quantum physics, concepts and cursing.
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Nature: 05 June 08
from Nature Podcast on June 04, 2008
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05 June: Saturn’s lumpy ring, the latest on superconductivity, an algorithm for movie scripts, and how mobile phones helped researchers learn about human movements.
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Nature: 29 May 08
from Nature Podcast on May 28, 2008
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29 May: The solution to a fishy reproductive riddle, a mysterious mid-century blip in sea surface temperatures, old-aged scientists, and a prosthetic arm that can be moved by the power of thought alone.
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Nature: 22 May 2008
from Nature Podcast on May 21, 2008
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22 May: A rare sighting of a supernova at birth, a new model of Huntington’s disease and bogus science degrees.
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Nature Extra: Jeffrey Sachs
from Nature Podcast on May 14, 2008
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Jeffrey Sachs: In this extended interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs, find out why he remains optimistic in the face of our ailing planet.
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Nature: 15 May 2008
from Nature Podcast on May 14, 2008
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15 May: Squid eyes, anti-flu drugs, ice core bubbles that reveal ancient climate cycles and economist Jeffrey Sachs on the ‘crowded planet challenge’.
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Nature Podcast: 01 May 2008
from Nature Podcast on April 30, 2008
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01 May: How eye components regulate our internal clock and act as a chemical compass, the missing ‘memristor’ and a worrying ‘flight of talent’ from academic science.
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Nature Podcast: 24 April 2008
from Nature Podcast on April 23, 2008
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24 April: Beetles that contribute to global warming, the solution to a cosmic mystery, conjurer and sceptic James Randi, and why space exploration deserves government funding.
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Nature Podcast: 17 April 2008
from Nature Podcast on April 16, 2008
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17 April: James Watson’s genome, an ‘elixir’ for blood cells, the latest step in quantum computing and ‘Science 2.0’ – scientists get involved with new technologies on the web.
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Nature Podcast: 10 April 2008
from Nature Podcast on April 09, 2008
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10 April: Blood cell lines redrawn, light that squeezes through holes smaller than its own wavelength and how Amazon air mops up pollutants.
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Nature Podcast: 03 April 2008
from Nature Podcast on April 02, 2008
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03 April: Genes and the risk of lung cancer, seeing in 3D, combing the skies for ‘other Earths’, Antarctic dust, and the IPCC’s climate policy is ‘too optimistic’.
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Nature Podcast: 27 March 2008
from Nature Podcast on March 26, 2008
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27 March: The oldest European, a puzzle over how RNA interference works, the evolution of complexity and a call for temperance in debates of evolution vs creationism.
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Nature Podcast: 20 March 2008
from Nature Podcast on March 19, 2008
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20 March: Punish and be damned; an organic compound on an exoplanet; a scientific study of incompetence; and water, water everywhere.
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Nature Podcast: special 'spincast' 06 March 2008
from Nature Podcast on March 06, 2008
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Nobel Prize winners Frank Wilczek and Richard Ernst discuss the history and development of 'spin' from fundamental theory to ground-breaking experiments; plus Hideo Ohno and David Awschalom reveal the latest developments in 'spintronics'.
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Nature Podcast: 06 March 2008
from Nature Podcast on March 05, 2008
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06 March: A 'doomsday' seed bank in Svalbard, the last pieces of the CERN jigsaw puzzle, a new method for brain-reading and Creationism in Texas.
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Nature Podcast: 21 February 2008
from Nature Podcast on February 20, 2008
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21 February: Self-healing rubber, a Martian delta recreated on Earth, highlights from the AAAS meeting in Boston, Darwin's American pen pal and your chance to win an iPod Touch in our Sounds of Science competition.
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Nature Podcast: 14 February 2008
from Nature Podcast on February 13, 2008
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14 February: The evolution of echolocation in bats, Creationism in Texas, the researchers who turned speed dating into science, and power dressing; how your clothes could soon be powering your mobile phone.
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Nature Podcast: 07 February 2008
from Nature Podcast on February 06, 2008
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07 February: Star Wars style 3D holograms, watching Alzheimer's disease developing in the brain, Darwin's enduring legacy and our PODium speaker wonders what's on the horizon of scientific research?
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