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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 4d

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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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 4d

This week on the pod:

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

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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 · 9d

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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 11d

This week on the pod:

🦠 How ancient viruses drive modern human development
🧬 How heat can fuel DNA computers
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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 17d

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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How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 September 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 25d

This week on the pod:

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

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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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

This week on the pod:

🐜 The ant queen that can produce two different species
🌉 How to keep bridges standing
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Two ants, two species, one mother

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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 27

This week on the pod:

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

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Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 27 August 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 20

This week on the pod 🔊

💡 Electrochemical fusion
🍫 Microbial taste of chocolate
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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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 13

This week on the pod 🔊

☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
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Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 13 August 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 August 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 30

This week on the pod 🔊

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

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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

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 26

This week on the Nature Podcast 🔊

🟨 How hot can solid gold get?
☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war

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Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 July 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 23

This week on the pod:

🟨 How hot can solid gold get?
☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war

go.nature.com/45hyrtU

Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 July 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 22

How can we make scientific literature free of errors? Our new series figures it out 🔊

go.nature.com/3IGedRI

AI, bounties and culture change, how scientists are taking on errors

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21/07/25

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 16 July 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 9

This week on the pod 🔊

🦠 The past 35,000 years of disease
🐳 Using whale poo to study toxic algae in the Arctic
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Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 09 July 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 2

This week on the pod:

🐝 Why animals evolve to be imperfect mimics

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3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 June 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 June 2025

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 9

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan

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Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 June 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 June 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jun 2

Audio long read 🔊 Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky

https://go.nature.com/3T1JNv1

Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky

Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · May 28

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

AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth’s core leaking?

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 28 May 2025

Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · May 21

This week on the pod 🔊

🦟 Treating mosquitoes for malaria
🧬 The genetics that can lead to pregnancy loss

https://go.nature.com/4dLLUgp

These malaria drugs treat the mosquitoes — not the people

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 May 2025