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

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

This week on the pod: 🧠 Probing the unconscious brain’s processing ability go.nature.com/49dBzIQ

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

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

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

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

This week on the pod: ✈️ Collecting contrails at 30,000 feet 🃏 Fakery in science go.nature.com/4sj37Dy

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

This week, the team are discussing the age old question - are scientists funny? go.nature.com/4sYDDMq

This week on the pod: 🌸 How plants make a crucial malaria drug go.nature.com/4bn6cf2

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

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

This week on the pod: 👟 The science of squeaky shoes 🧠 Evidence of hippocampal neurogenesis go.nature.com/46ta38W

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

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

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

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

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

This week on the pod: 🍋 The exoplanet shaped like a lemon ⛵ The origin of an ancient boat go.nature.com/4pt8sXq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week on the pod: 🐋 How bowhead whales live so long 🐍 An antivenom against a broad range of snakebites go.nature.com/4qykRLb

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

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 🧪⚛️ www.youtube.com/shorts/krita...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week on the pod: 🇫🇷 How the 18th-Century 'Great Fear’ spread across rural France ⚛️ The quantum interpretation quiz go.nature.com/3VrY6Kx

This week on the pod 🔊 💡 Electrochemical fusion 🍫 Microbial taste of chocolate go.nature.com/45rTaLR

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

This week on the pod 🔊 🦆 Researchers develop a new glue and test it on a rubber duck 🦠 The diversity of microbes within living trees go.nature.com/41tMU3B

This week on the pod 🔊 🌊 The deepest ecosystem ever discovered 🦠 How infections could awaken dormant cancer go.nature.com/4mngShS

This week on the Nature Podcast 🔊 🟨 How hot can solid gold get? ☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war go.nature.com/45l5lty

This week on the pod: 🟨 How hot can solid gold get? ☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war go.nature.com/45hyrtU

How can we make scientific literature free of errors? Our new series figures it out 🔊 go.nature.com/3IGedRI

This week on the pod: 🦈 The ancient mega-predator with a ‘stealth mode’ 💤 ‘Leaky’ mitochondria could be the root cause of sleep 📄 The secret messages used to trick peer-review AI go.nature.com/3IrcyQ5

This week on the pod 🔊 🦠 The past 35,000 years of disease 🐳 Using whale poo to study toxic algae in the Arctic go.nature.com/4m50dzB

This week on the pod: 🐝 Why animals evolve to be imperfect mimics https://go.nature.com/44b9D6n

This week on the pod 🔊 🖥️ Is AI-research being co-opted to keep track of people? 🌌 The first images from the world’s largest digital camera https://go.nature.com/440LUWw

This week on the pod 🔊 ✨ The tiny moths that use the stars to navigate 👤 How humans expanded their habitats before migrating out of Africa https://go.nature.com/3I1qlfD