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

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan https://go.nature.com/3ZKlshp

This week on the pod 🔊 🧬 Iron’s role in mice sex determination 🎣 The role of small-scale fishers in sustainability https://go.nature.com/442Xgcn

Audio long read 🔊 Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky https://go.nature.com/3T1JNv1

This week on the pod: 📝 Was a boom in papers driven by AI? 🔎 Lenses that give humans infrared vision 🌎 Does the Earth's core have a leak? https://go.nature.com/3Sp9u8F

This week on the pod 🔊 🦟 Treating mosquitoes for malaria 🧬 The genetics that can lead to pregnancy loss https://go.nature.com/4dLLUgp

This week on the pod 🔊 🚚 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road trip ⚫ The mathematics of a near-miss between black holes https://go.nature.com/42ZOz24

We're examining recent developments at the US NSF, which has seen significant numbers of research grants terminated We also discuss Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2026, which calls for disproportionately large cuts to federal science funding https://go.nature.com/3Sx0NZQ

This week on the pod: 🎣 How fishing activity altered the migration pattern of Herring 🧠 How might AI companions affect users' mental health? https://go.nature.com/4iSZkrJ

This week on the pod: 🟩 A brand new colour 🐷 Pig liver transplants 🍗 A chunk of lab-grown chicken https://go.nature.com/44BUtHS

In our latest episode of What's In A Name - we look at how ideas can be lost in translation when physicists try to name the unknown https://go.nature.com/3RpQ0jQ

This week on the pod: 🥔 A potato pangenome 📄 The top cited twenty-first century research papers https://go.nature.com/4j9z50Z

This week on the pod: 🐒 Complete sequencing of ape genomes ⚛️ How to make a competitive laser-plasma accelerator https://go.nature.com/3RafcKZ

Podcast alert! I talked about AIR-BORNE with Nature & with @charliejane.bsky.social & @annaleen.bsky.social on Our Opinions Are Correct. Listen here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... & ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/severance-an...

This week on the pod: 🤏 This pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice 💉 Shingles vaccine linked to reduced dementia risk https://go.nature.com/4i3zroL

This week on the pod: 🦠 Newly discovered molecule shows potent antibiotic activity 👫 The nuances of humans' biodiversity impacts https://go.nature.com/3QRbV3c

This week on the pod: 💎 2D metals made using a sapphire press 🦠 Virology lessons learnt from the COVID pandemic https://go.nature.com/41NyGd8

This week on the pod 🔊 💀 Ancient humans made bone tools 1.5m years ago 🦠 Antibacterial molecules hidden in human proteins https://go.nature.com/4ikDRbT

This week on the pod: ⌚ A 'smart' way to quickly detect cardiac arrest https://go.nature.com/4hQT43W

Could a simple change to how workers are rated eliminate racial discrimination on online platforms? My latest for @nature.com on the @naturepodcast.bsky.social

This week on the pod 🔊 👍 A simple switch to reduce racist ratings 📃 An analysis of retraction hotspots https://go.nature.com/4hAwoF3