Episódios

  • These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate

    These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
    Feb 4 2026
    00:46 Understanding how rete ridges form in the skin

    Nature: Thompson et al.


    09:32 Research Highlights

    Nature: Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil

    Nature: Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough


    11:52 The open-source AI that performs scientific literature reviews

    Nature: Asai et al.


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    22 minutos
  • Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing

    Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
    Jan 30 2026

    In this episode:



    00:36 Study probes genetics of extreme longevity

    Nature: Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity



    05:32 Controlling fluorescent proteins’ brightness with magnets

    Nature: ‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells


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    10 minutos
  • How your brain chemistry rewards hard work

    How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
    Jan 28 2026

    In this episode:




    00:46 Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding

    Nature: Touponse et al.




    11:34 Research Highlights

    Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times

    Nature: Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings




    13:43 How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts

    Nature: Symons et al.


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    24 minutos
  • Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

    Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
    Jan 26 2026
    This is an audio version of our Feature: ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

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    18 minutos
  • Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes

    Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
    Jan 23 2026

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    00:24 How babies share their gut microbes

    Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome



    05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattle

    Science: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools


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    12 minutos
  • The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition

    The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
    Jan 21 2026
    00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments

    Nature: Pedalino et al.

    News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'


    11:46 Research Highlights

    Nature: Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking

    Nature: Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans


    14:11 How Trump’s second term has impacted research

    Nature: US science after a year of Trump

    Nature: US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year

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    27 minutos
  • Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears

    Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
    Jan 16 2026

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    00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on Mars

    Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost



    05:24 The genetics of dogs’ droopy ears

    Nature: Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears


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    10 minutos
  • AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope

    AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope
    Jan 14 2026

    In this episode:



    00:47 AI can boost research productivity — at what cost?

    Research article: Hao et al.



    10:10 Research Highlights

    Nature: Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas

    Nature: Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage



    12:41 JWST images are full of red dots, what are they?

    Nature: Rusakov et al.


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    22 minutos