Nature Podcast

Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4 March 2026

This week on the pod:

🫀 A magnetic seal to stop clots forming in the heart
💎 Making hexagonal diamond

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How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 February 2026

This week on the pod:

👟 The science of squeaky shoes
🧠 Evidence of hippocampal neurogenesis
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This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 February 2026

This week on the pod:

🧊 This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years
💉 An mRNA vaccine for triple-negative breast cancer

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These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 February 2026

This week on the pod:

🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains
🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion
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These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4th February 2026

This week on the pod:

💪 These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
📄 The open-source AI that performs scientific literature reviews

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How your brain chemistry rewards hard work Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 28 January 2026

This week on the pod:

✅ Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding
⛈️ How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts
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The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 January 2026

This week on the pod:

🐱 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments
🇺🇸 How Trump’s second term has impacted research
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A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 07 January 2026

This week on the pod:

🍋 The exoplanet shaped like a lemon
⛵ The origin of an ancient boat

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The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025 Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 December 2025

It's the 2025 festive special! 🌲 ❄️ Listen for memorable science-themed gifts, games, seasonal songs, and Nature's 10

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Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 December 2025

This week on the pod:

🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire
🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease

go.nature.com/44Zl68U

Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 03 December 2025

This week on the pod:

🌌 How satellite mega-constellations could ruin space-based astronomy
🖥️ The negative consequences of video call glitches

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This is what lightning on Mars sounds like Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 November 2025

This week on the pod:

🔴 ⚡ Martian ‘micro-lightning’
3️⃣ 0️⃣ The key takeaways from COP30
👩‍🔬 📃 Why women may retract less than men
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Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 November 2025

This week on the pod:

💊 A molecule that delivers insulin through the skin
🧠 How language lights up the brain, whatever the tongue
go.nature.com/4raJ9vd

Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 12 November 2025

This week on the pod:

🎇 A coronal mass ejection from a distant star
🧬 The rare genetic variants that might increase the risk of ADHD
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Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 05 November 2025

This week on the pod:

🦖 The debate around Nanotyrannus
💊 A less invasive way to prevent breast cancer

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Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years — this protein might be why Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 October 2025

This week on the pod:

🐋 How bowhead whales live so long
🐍 An antivenom against a broad range of snakebites

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Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 October 2025

This week on the pod:

🍔 How hunger, hormones and aggression interact in mouse brains
🎓 What generative AI could mean for higher education

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New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 October 2025

This week on the pod:

💉 A multi-variant avian flu vaccine that could enhance pandemic preparedness

& research highlights and more

go.nature.com/4qqTGlI

Over at @naturepodcast.bsky.social we also made a super short vid on this year's physics Nobel Prize. Quantum phenomena at the macroscopic scale in two minutes... go! With me, and Ben Thompson & camera work by the fab @emzywb.bsky.social 🧪⚛️

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How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025

This week on the pod:

🖥️ The stereotypes hidden in Internet images
💫 Astronomers name their favourite exoplanet

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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025

It's the 900th episode of the Nature Podcast! 🎉

This week: Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025

This week on the pod:

🦠 How ancient viruses drive modern human development
🧬 How heat can fuel DNA computers
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How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 September 2025

This week on the pod:

🧠 New insights into tick-borne encephalitis
🔬 How might cancelled NIH grants affect the future of US science?
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This AI tool predicts your risk of 1,000 diseases — by looking at your medical records Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 7 September 2025

This week on the pod:

🩺 The AI tool that predicts disease risk
🖥️ Give an AI a task and it may cheat for you

go.nature.com/4n64yDc

Two ants, two species, one mother Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 September 2025

This week on the pod:

🐜 The ant queen that can produce two different species
🌉 How to keep bridges standing
go.nature.com/4n4bLUF

Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 27 August 2025

This week on the pod:

🇫🇷 How the 18th-Century 'Great Fear’ spread across rural France
⚛️ The quantum interpretation quiz

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Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 August 2025

This week on the pod 🔊

💡 Electrochemical fusion
🍫 Microbial taste of chocolate
go.nature.com/45rTaLR

Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 13 August 2025

This week on the pod 🔊

☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
go.nature.com/4fw64eU

Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 August 2025

This week on the pod 🔊

🦆 Researchers develop a new glue and test it on a rubber duck
🦠 The diversity of microbes within living trees

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Earth's deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 30 July 2025

This week on the pod 🔊

🌊 The deepest ecosystem ever discovered
🦠 How infections could awaken dormant cancer

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