Nature Podcast

We measure our economies in terms of trade, production and services - but one vital component is missing: the environment. Pavan Sukhdev is the study leader for a UN-run program on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, and he wants to see these ...

19 November: Why paleontologists should predict instead of just describe, how to factor environmental goods into the economy, the cultural context of Darwin's theories and a round-up of other highlights from Nature.

12 November: How a language gene behaves in humans and chimps, determining orbiting planets from a star's lithium levels, the run up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

5 November: Scientists take a closer look at a star first spotted in 1680, how unrelated animals lend a helping hand, a 'Pleistocene Park' in the Netherlands, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

29 October: A new type of communication between brain cells is confirmed, a theory about how the Earth became watery, questioning whether the speed of light is constant, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

22 October: The effects of sleep deprivation on memory, 250 years of London's Kew Gardens, watching evolution in the lab, and climate change in the Himalayas.

15 October: Video game-playing mice, illiterate Columbian guerrillas, a magnet with only one pole, Nobel Prize-winner Elizabeth Blackburn, and in the news - a CERN scientist is charged with being a terrorist.

8 October: Saturn's enormous ring, the looming phosphate crisis, rapidly rising magma, a whole heap of human genetics, and this year's Nobel Prizes.

1 October: Sex chromosome evolution in stickleback and humans, cheat-resisting amoebae, and how powerful earthquakes may influence the strength of far-away faults.

24 September: Planetary boundaries that are not to be crossed, early humans and carbon dioxide levels, India's genetic diversity, the genomes behind an epidemic.

17 September: Gene therapy to correct colour blindness, droplets behaving weirdly, how warm temperatures in the past affected Greenland, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and live birth.

10 September: The genome behind the Irish potato famine, a new take on the Great Oxidation Event, how dying cells signal 'come-kill-me', and the week's news highlights.

3 September: The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'.

3 September: The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'.

3 September: The galaxy that eats others for breakfast, the oldest hand-axes in Europe, engineering our climate, and predicting 'tipping points'.

27 August: Gene therapy for mitochondrial mutations, a 'hot jupiter' spinning perilously close to its sun, science-themed songs for kids, toxicity testing, and a chance to win tickets to a private screening of the film Creation.

20 August: The search for gravity waves, rice 'snorkel' genes, the world's most famous fossil site, and the dark side of antioxidants.

Proteins that use metals to help them function are called metalloproteins. Join us as we learn how they choose their metal partners, what they use these metals for, and how studying them can help us explain everything from human diseases to the origin of ...

13 August: Glaciers, tectonic plates and mountain height, a mathematical packing problem solved, a history of hurricanes and the news round-up.