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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week on the pod 🔊 ▪️ Investigating the day-to-day impacts of Financial Abuse ▪️ How opposing forces in the Earth's core alter how the planet spins go.nature.com/4ruoQcD

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Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 September 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Latest from the pod 🔊 🧠 Human brain-organoids transplanted into mice missing their cortex 📃 The AI tool that lets researchers talk to papers go.nature.com/4Aw4gwO

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Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 16 September 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week on the pod: 🌊 The world’s oceans reach a record temperature 👓 How mitochondrial injections could treat vision loss go.nature.com/4qD6DJv

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Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 August 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This week on the pod: 🌟 The star that could reveal a black hole’s spin 💀 Commercial exoskeletons are hitting the market — what now? go.nature.com/4x85a06

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A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 August 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This week on the pod: 🦴 Ancient structures hidden beneath the Amazon’s canopy 🦑 Tiny fossils represent the earliest-known squid ancestor go.nature.com/4xeowRc

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Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 July 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week on the pod: 🌝 The discovery of a moon-like object in a distant star system 🧬 A discovery of a new type of rare transmissible cancer go.nature.com/4b2NlH1

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What counts as a moon? Huge ‘exosatellite’ sparks debate

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 July 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This week on the pod: 🐀 The secret scent behind a naked mole-rat's rule 🎲 The psychology behind a brand-new board game: the behaviour of beginners go.nature.com/4wKBohE

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‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 July 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This week on the pod: ☢️ A neutron detector could sniff out a secret space nuke 🌎 How Indigenous knowledge in the Amazon could disappear go.nature.com/4yhgWXk

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Nukes in space? Orbital detector could sniff out warheads

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 July 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This week on the pod: 🏥 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs 🌌 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they should go.nature.com/4xLZIRj

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Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 June 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This week on the pod: ☠️ Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks ⚙️ A prototype atom interferometer go.nature.com/3SNB2b2

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DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 June 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This week on the pod: 🐳 A giant, ancient whale necropolis 🌱 Turning plant material into chemical building-blocks go.nature.com/4dZHlRe

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Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 June 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This week on the pod: 🧑‍🔬 Meet the AI scientists designed to accelerate research 📱 Using LiDAR to look around corners go.nature.com/3RcDnvJ

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AI ‘scientists’ promise to accelerate research — how do they work?

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 20 May 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This week on the pod: 🟥 Is red-light therapy all hype? 📈 The complex story of global obesity rates go.nature.com/3PicTbu

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Red-light therapy is all the rage — does it work?

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 May 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This week on the pod: 🥐 How eating can boost the immune system ☢️ The pressing need to plan for future nuclear disasters go.nature.com/48YH9Pa

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Immunity gets a boost from a surprising place — breakfast

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 April 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This week on the pod: 🤖 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros 🍎 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big G go.nature.com/4vK8v5f

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Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 April 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This week on the pod: 💊 A massive trial assessing the outcomes of ‘off label’ cancer treatment 🧬 10,000 years of western Eurasian evolution go.nature.com/4vwKzlL

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Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 April 2026

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Nature @nature.com · 13/04/2026

ICYMI our correspondent Alexandra Witze told the Nature Podcast what it was like to be at NASA's Mission Control during the historic Moon fly-by go.nature.com/42169Bp

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Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 April 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This week on the pod: 🦟 Why insects aren’t massive 🧬 CRISPR creates CAR-T cancer therapy inside mice go.nature.com/4t2WLsp

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Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 March 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This week on the pod: 🐟 Unravelling the genetics of an asexual fish that should be extinct 🌠 How a superluminous supernova got so bright go.nature.com/4b7PGkt

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This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 March 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This week on the pod: 🫀 A magnetic seal to stop clots forming in the heart 💎 Making hexagonal diamond www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4 March 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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 go.nature.com/4rZDhVk

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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

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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 go.nature.com/3MAKJag

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These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 February 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This week on the pod: 💪 These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate 📄 The open-source AI that performs scientific literature reviews go.nature.com/4bC7i8O

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These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4th February 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This week on the pod: ✅ Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding ⛈️ How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts go.nature.com/4q7CGiZ

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How your brain chemistry rewards hard work

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 28 January 2026

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This week on the pod: 🐱 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments 🇺🇸 How Trump’s second term has impacted research go.nature.com/3YMMvHV

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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

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It's the 2025 festive special! 🌲 ❄️ Listen for memorable science-themed gifts, games, seasonal songs, and Nature's 10 go.nature.com/3L3oM2O

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The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 December 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This week on the pod: 🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire 🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease go.nature.com/44Zl68U

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Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 December 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This week on the pod: 🌌 How satellite mega-constellations could ruin space-based astronomy 🖥️ The negative consequences of video call glitches go.nature.com/4ovr5cE

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Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 03 December 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This week on the pod: 🔴 ⚡ Martian ‘micro-lightning’ 3️⃣ 0️⃣ The key takeaways from COP30 👩‍🔬 📃 Why women may retract less than men go.nature.com/4p3mbVe

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This is what lightning on Mars sounds like

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 November 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 November 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This week on the pod: 🎇 A coronal mass ejection from a distant star 🧬 The rare genetic variants that might increase the risk of ADHD go.nature.com/49gX2Sa

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Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 12 November 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This week on the pod: 🦖 The debate around Nanotyrannus 💊 A less invasive way to prevent breast cancer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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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

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This week on the pod: 🍔 How hunger, hormones and aggression interact in mouse brains 🎓 What generative AI could mean for higher education go.nature.com/3Jq04ZA

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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

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This week on the pod: 💉 A multi-variant avian flu vaccine that could enhance pandemic preparedness & research highlights and more go.nature.com/4qqTGlI

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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

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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 🧪⚛️ www.youtube.com/shorts/krita...

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Physics Nobel win for groundbreaking quantum tunnelling experiments

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This week on the pod: 🖥️ The stereotypes hidden in Internet images 💫 Astronomers name their favourite exoplanet go.nature.com/47m5tZV

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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

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Nature @nature.com · 03/10/2025

It's the 900th episode of the Nature Podcast! 🎉 This week: Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop go.nature.com/3IvoCA9

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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This week on the pod: 🦠 How ancient viruses drive modern human development 🧬 How heat can fuel DNA computers go.nature.com/42QSI7W

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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This week on the pod: 🧠 New insights into tick-borne encephalitis 🔬 How might cancelled NIH grants affect the future of US science? go.nature.com/42IRtrn

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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

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This week on the pod: 🐜 The ant queen that can produce two different species 🌉 How to keep bridges standing go.nature.com/4n4bLUF

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Two ants, two species, one mother

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 September 2025

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