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September 05, 2007

Nature Podcast 06 Sep 2007

This week the Nature Podcast peers into craters formed by asteroid collision, analyses tsunami risk in the Bay of Bengal, and finds a moray eel that bites twice.

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August 29, 2007

Nature Podcast 30 Aug 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds a new species trapped in ancient amber, reveals the sequence of the grapevine genome, counts down to space tourism, and discovers how protoplanetary discs get assembled.

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August 22, 2007

Nature Podcast 23 Aug 2007

This week the Nature Podcast discovers that diamonds really are forever, meets a mouse with obsessive compulsive disorder and a new species of ape, and discusses what to do with overabundant elephants in Africa.

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August 15, 2007

Nature Podcast 16 Aug 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds out how to make glass from germanium, discusses the possibility of life on Mars, discovers talc in the San Andreas fault and attends SciFoo - a science conference with a difference.

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August 08, 2007

Nature Podcast 09 Aug 2007

This week the Nature Podcast discovers gender-bending mice, unearths two early Homo fossils, and finds the Earth’s crust being recycled in Samoan island lava.

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August 01, 2007

Nature Podcast 2 Aug 2007

This week the Nature Podcast reports on brain stimulation for a minimally conscious patient, explores the mouse HapMap, and finds brown clouds over Asia spell bad news.

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July 25, 2007

Nature Podcast 26 Jul 2007

This week the Nature Podcast surveys the scientific side of the Simpsons, discovers how humans are changing rain patterns, and finds out how a project that gives palm pilots to pygmy communities is putting their interests on the map.

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July 18, 2007

Nature Podcast 19 July 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds two proteins that battle aging as well as cancer, plumbs the depths of the English Channel to discover how it was formed, gets stuck on a super-sticky polymer, and explores the universe’s ‘dark side’.

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July 11, 2007

Nature Podcast 12 Jul 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds water on ‘hot jupiters’, discovers how to make knock-out flies with no knock-on effects, and looks at the lucky few species that survived the Permo-Triassic mass extinction.


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July 04, 2007

Nature Podcast 05 Jul 2007

This week the Nature Podcast zooms in on Saturn’s sponge-like moon, finds a Parkinson’s-protective protein, explores the advantages of being a mimic, and finds itself in many parallel universes at once.

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June 27, 2007

Nature Podcast 28 Jun 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds a battle of the sexes raging in red deer genes, derives a new type of stem cell, and welcomes you to the Wellcome Collection.

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June 20, 2007

Nature Podcast 21 Jun 2007

This week the Nature Podcast takes a step towards a lunar telescope, makes car fuel out of carbs, and discovers a way to get drugs to the brain.

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June 13, 2007

Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007

This week the Nature Podcast unearths a giant bird-like dinosaur, decodes the results of the ENCODE project, and washes up in Mars’ equivalent of the Mediterranean.

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Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007

This week the Nature Podcast unearths a giant bird-like dinosaur, decodes the results of the ENCODE project, and washes up in Mars’ equivalent of the Mediterranean.

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May 30, 2007

Nature Podcast 31 May 2007

This week the Nature Podcast spots water vapour in a planetary birthplace, chills out with a cold receptor, and nets five new breast cancer genes.

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May 24, 2007

Nature Podcast 24 May 2007

This week the Nature Podcast mingles with the stars, finds out how cancers are kindled, and studies historical hurricanes.

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May 16, 2007

Nature Podcast 17 May 2007

This week the Nature Podcast peers at hotspots on Saturn’s moon, finds out that herpes can sometimes be helpful, and explores a ‘hair-raising’ tale.

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May 09, 2007

Nature Podcast 10 May 2007

This week on the Nature Podcast Chris Smith finds out how lithium can be a superconductor, issues the first weather report from extra-solar planet HD 189733b, and delves into the genome of the first marsupial to be sequenced, the opossum.

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May 02, 2007

Nature Podcast 3 May 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds out about the lazier cousins of earthquakes, what the brain does with its free time, and how dieting worms live longer.

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April 25, 2007

Nature Podcast 26 Apr 2007

This week the Nature Podcast looks at how lowering inhibition in the brain can lead to addiction, hears how a wind tunnel full of wings might help build more efficient aircraft, and explores how invasive species thrive on hard times.

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April 18, 2007

Nature Podcast 19 Apr 2007

This week the Nature Podcast rethinks realism in the quantum world, discovers how melting mantle formed the Earth’s crust, and uncovers the earliest forests.

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April 11, 2007

Nature Podcast 12 Apr 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds out how to stop the spread of cancer with drugs, spies distant planets the size of Jupiter, and solves a photosynthetic puzzle.

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April 04, 2007

Nature Podcast 5 Apr 2007

This week the Nature Podcast makes an illuminating discovery about brain control, finds out about climate change on Mars, discovers the origin of the Earth’s magnetic field, and unravels the mysterious relics of Joan of Arc.

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March 28, 2007

Nature Podcast 29 Mar 2007

This week the Nature Podcast unravels sex discrimination in fruit flies, pieces together a mammalian family tree, and finds out how to predict the next big epidemic.

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March 21, 2007

Nature Podcast 22 Mar 07

This week the Nature Podcast practices chemistry without protection, solves a tectonic teaser, and debates whether homeopathy is harmless superstition or dangerous pseudoscience.

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TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Is homeopathy fact or fiction? Superstition or pseudoscience? Read the special report and Commentary on the subject, and join the debate here.

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March 14, 2007

Nature Podcast 15 Mar 2007

This week the Nature Podcast witnesses the results of some astronomical collisions, explores the roots of flowering plants, uncovers the legacy of Carl Linnaeus and studies swarms of mini-earthquakes.

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March 07, 2007

Nature Podcast 8 Mar 2007

This week the Nature Podcast sizes up dinosaur genomes, uncovers the cancer genome, tries some silica alchemy, and asks whether there really is water on Mars.


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February 28, 2007

Nature Podcast 1 Mar 2007

This week the Nature Podcast watches the nervous system at work, discovers how to identify single atoms, and finds malaria's weakness.


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February 21, 2007

Nature Podcast 22 Feb 2007

This week the Nature Podcast discovers new lakes under Antarctica, meets some rather clever blue-jays, finds an extrasolar planet and exposes fake science on TV.


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February 14, 2007

Nature Podcast 15 Feb 2007

This week the Nature Podcast finds a chink in HIV’s armour, works out how humans avoid incest, explores the darkest galaxies in the universe, and takes a look at the soppy side of science.

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February 07, 2007

Nature Podcast 8 Feb 2007

This week the Nature Podcast explores what gut bugs can tell us about human evolution, how to transport light between atoms, discusses climate change both ancient and modern, and sees what it takes to ‘seal’ the mating deal.

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February 01, 2007

Nature Podcast 1 Feb 2007

This week the Nature Podcast explores how a scientific SWAT team are helping to conserve the Amazon, redraws the hydrological cycle from space, and looks at micro-organisms forming new relationships and virtual quantum computing on chips.

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January 24, 2007

Nature Podcast 25 Jan 2007

This week the Nature Podcast explores how fish know who’s boss, why summer is coming early to some countries, the best way to sniff out smells, and discovers an Australian fossil treasure trove.

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January 18, 2007

Nature Podcast 18 Jan 2007

This week the Nature Podcast investigates coral clocks, making magnets, keeping gas in cages, and a vicious flu virus; and gives you the low-down on science policy and the 'dark side' of science.

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January 11, 2007

Nature Podcast 10 Jan 2007

This week’s Nature Podcast investigates early decision-making in embryo cells, explores the best way to store nuclear waste, links glucose sensors to furring arteries, and brings news of ecology-friendly crops and an energy-efficient bungee backpack.

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December 20, 2006

Nature Podcast 21 Dec

On this week's bumper double-issue Nature Podcast we hear how our gut microbes affect our body weight, explore insect chemoreception, explain Komodo dragon virgin births, say bye-bye to Brief Comms, find a novel gamma-ray burst, learn how to starve tumours, and have more on the evolution of flight and the social lives of meerkats.

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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION: see our Human Gut Microbes video and tell us what you think this research tells us about the obesity epidemic.


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December 13, 2006

Nature Podcast 14 December

On this week's Nature Podcast we look at the perception of pain, what fossils can tell us about diet, a new group of ancient gliding mammals, and we have more on Martian horizons, the science and politics of vivisection, and the secrets of botox.

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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION: Should it be up to politicians, scientists or the public to make the case for animal experimentation?


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December 06, 2006

Nature Podcast 7 Dec

On this week's Nature Podcast the look at the longest mammalian tongue, tackle brain tumour switches, have more on an anti-HIV initiative for Nigerian oil workers, the Reliable Replacement Warhead, desktop particle accelerators, and an insight into the influenza A virus.

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December 01, 2006

Nature Podcast 30 November

On this week's Nature Podcast we toast vintage oenology, hear what Stradivari did for the sound of music, and explore the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism, metamaterials and terahertz, and the economics of energy.

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November 22, 2006

Nature Podcast 23 November

On this week's Nature Podcast we develop a taste for synaesthesia, discover colon cancer stem cells and human genome variation, hear how your genes could help you conquer mountains, find out what tsunamis can do to coral reefs, and take a look at some real-time molecular movies.

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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION: Creationism vs. Evolution correspondence - is Nature the right place for the debate?


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November 15, 2006

Nature Podcast 16 November

On this week's Nature Podcast we discover ways to treat muscular dystrophy and healing a broken heart, take a special look at secrets of synaesthesia, and have more on H5N1 mutations, Palaeolithic infant burials, and the quest for Neanderthal DNA.

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This week's topic for discussion: Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed?


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November 08, 2006

Nature Podcast 9 November

This week's Nature Podcast eyes-up retinal repair and matters of perception, takes a light-hearted look at what The Sun newspaper has to say about the history science, and has more on spicy spider bites, Himalayan earthquakes, and sleep and memory.

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November 01, 2006

Nature Podcast 02 November

On this week's Nature Podcast we cover rejuvenating resveratrol, retinoblastoma mutations, enforcing insect altruism, conservation strategies, E. coli's coat, cool quantum states, loose marsupials, and have a special on science and Islam.

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For this week's topic for discussion see our Islam and Science special and check the Nature Newsblog


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October 25, 2006

Nature Podcast 26 October

On this week's Nature Podcast hear about giant terror birds, the honeybee genome, the Neuroscience 2006 conference, monitoring North Korea's nuclear materials, connecting brains, and how biodiversity affects ecosystems.

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This week's topic for discussion: will the genetic sequence of the honeybee offer insights into human sociality?

You can find out more about the honeybee genome in our special video web focus

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October 18, 2006

Nature Podcast 19 October

In this week’s Nature Podcast discover galactic rings of fire, methane worms and mud volcanoes, the origin of the ground beneath our feet, Darwin online, and hear the latest analysis on the US mid-term elections and Iraq war death toll calculations from our news team.


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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION: In the US has science been manipulated to meet political agendas?

This week discuss this issue on Nature's Newsblog. See our US mid-term election 2006 special for more.


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October 11, 2006

Nature Podcast 12 Oct 2006

On this week’s Nature Podcast explore the primordial 'Great Oxidation', find out how the orbit of the Earth may have shaped mammalian extinction patterns, enjoy a light-hearted roundup of the Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes, get an update on the fate of the 'Tripoli Six', and hear how novel vaccination strategies might save the Ethiopian wolf.

This week's topic for discussion: which are sillier -- the Nobel or Ig Nobel prizes?


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October 04, 2006

Nature Podcast 05 Oct 2006

On this week's Nature Podcast take a look at insect eyes, Jupiter-sized exoplanets, the sinking sea floor, enjoy a pub guide to zoology, and hear more on string theory nonsense, eco-activism, climate change regulation, and a quantum leap for teleportation.

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Listen to the show now and start a discussion on subjects in science that matter to you.

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September 27, 2006

Nature Podcast 28 Sep

This week's Nature Podcast sees the light of bacterial resurrection, is hooked on tarantulas' silky feet, has news analysis on a climate change storm, some statistical shenanigans, ways to make stem cells, and has more on Bose-Einstein condensation in a solid, gene regulation and evolutionary pathways, and an exclusive interview on science in Iran.

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September 20, 2006

Nature Podcast 21 September

This week’s Nature Podcast features a hominid special on the ‘Baby Lucy’ discovery, investigates the roots of obesity, spotlights the Libyan HIV case, and has more on Greenland's GRACE, the first 'PASER', fair skin signals, and sensing shadows.

Speak your mind! Submit your comments on subjects covered by the Nature Podcast now!

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September 13, 2006

Nature Podcast 14 September

This week's Nature Podcast visits the European Neanderthals, investigates a role for the sun in global warming, looks for vegetative consciousness, explores quantum cooling and gets an insight into early galactic development.

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September 06, 2006

Nature Podcast 7 Sep

This week's Nature Podcast considers cancer and unintelligent design, discovers Siberian methane emissions, and examines self-heating volcanoes, chiral-selective catalysts, a new take on fluid dynamics and don’t miss the story of Atlantis.

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August 30, 2006

Nature Podcast 31 Aug

This week's Nature Podcast investigates male infertility, examines how the brain categorises visual information, heralds SMART-1's last hurrah, and has more on RNAi and indefinite inheritance, size and the death of a star, and gamma-ray bursts.

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August 23, 2006

Nature Podcast 24 Aug

This week's Nature Podcast makes ethically-acceptable stem cells, targets bacterial secretion, hears what 'Science Foo' had to say about citizen science, and has more on superheavy elements, radio magnetars, the Earth's archaic oxygen, and why Dictyostelium keeps it in the family.

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August 16, 2006

Nature Podcast 17Aug

This week’s Nature Podcast features bird flu’s structural secrets and silent spread, finds Florida seeking Californian brains, explains cryptic Martian spots, galactic evolution, and has more on methane-producing plants, rewriting the nitrogen cycle, and fast-evolving brain genes.

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August 10, 2006

Nature Podcast 10 Aug

This week’s Nature Podcast tucks into aqua-rice, discovers how plants inherit their parents' stress, examines AIDS drugs in Africa and the ethics of egg donation, and has more on the cosmological conundrums of lithium and sizes up trans-neptunian objects.

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August 02, 2006

Nature Podcast 03 Aug

On this week's Nature Podcast fly with warmth-seeking bees, check out smart microlenses, get a whiff of human pheromones, then discover atomic ecology, the age of whales, leaf litter secrets, the solution to Poinncare's conjection, and find out what happens when stars collide.

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July 27, 2006

Nature Podcast 27 July

This week's Nature Podcast targets Hepatitis C, samples heat- and acid-loving bacteria, checks out personal carbon credits, Nigeria's good fortune, stem cell legalities, and has more on healing potential, facing faces, the weather on Titan, and median fins and limbs.

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July 20, 2006

Nature Podcast 20 July

This week’s Nature Podcast untangles food webs, traces our Neanderthal heritage, explores the origin of the ocean floor, and has more on military secrets, why lungfish are dammed, graphene composites, and paramutational phenomena.

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July 18, 2006

Nature Podcast 13 July

This week's Nature Podcast features brain-computer interfaces, science and the battle of the sexes, human transmission of H5N1, science and religion, deep sea secrets, the unshelled mollusc, tropospheric radicals, and atomic tweasers.

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July 06, 2006

Nature Podcast 06 July

This week's Nature Podcast features face recognition, koala retroviruses, a sneaky sociologist, the top science blogs, big cat business, new nukes, the search for Earth-like planets, and silent earthquakes.

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June 28, 2006

Nature Insight -- Stem Cells Podcast

Twenty-five years after stem cells were first identified in mice we can now isolate and grow stem cells from humans, opening up potential therapies for diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes. But with these opportunities comes ethical controversy and claims of fraud in some stem-cell research fields.

This special Stem Cells Podcast presents interviews with leading stem cell researchers and a live discussion on the various scientific and ethical problems in this highly charged arena.

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Nature Podcast 29 June

On this week's Nature Podcast we circumnavigate the globe and investigate science around the world on the summer solstice. We also discover self-repairing brains, black holes, how to choose the right cleaner fish, construct the new germanium, sample ecosystem stability, and tuck into prion diseases.

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June 01, 2006

Nature Podcast 01 Jun

This week’s Nature Podcast swims in the balmy Arctic, learns from New Orleans’s levees, asks what’s dangerous about chemistry, and has more on Hobbit origins, Saturn's hot moon, the secrets of REM sleep, and discusses lab animal endings.

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May 25, 2006

Nature Podcast 25 May

This week’s Nature Podcast looks at the outer shell of HIV, investigates scientific misconduct in China, asks why a little disorder might help the ITER fusion reactor, and has more on undersea volcanoes, a long-found Asian plesiosaur, non-mendelian inheritance, and lobsters with the lurgy. English language transcripts of each show are also now available.

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May 18, 2006

Nature Podcast 18 May

This week’s bumper Nature Podcast features the discovery of a new antibiotic, the first nuclear Neanderthal DNA, and a trio of Neptune-sized exoplanets, finds that human ancestors and chimps may have been closer than we thought, cashes in on climate change models, and loses out to cheating bacteria.

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May 10, 2006

Nature Podcast 11 May

This week’s Nature Podcast features eusocial slackers, a seawater secret, the RNA pseudoknot, and a tale of meteoric survival, discusses Arctic data loss, Qatari science, asks how prepared the US is for bird flu, and gets in a spin about Saturn. You can listen to the show from here or subscribe with our RSS feed. Either way, it’s free.

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