After two years and 102 shows, we are relaunching the Nature Podcast today. We’ve got new music, some new presenters (Kerri Smith, and erm, yours truly) and some ace new features on the pod. These include the Podium: a soapbox monologue (so if you’ve got a campaign to launch, or you simply want to shout about something sciencey that’s bugging you then write to us at podcast@nature.com); and Sounds of Science, your chance to record some amazing sounds from your labspace or field, or anything that sounds awesome. This week we’ve got Nature’s top dog Philip Campbell at the Podium, and Sounds of Science is the quite brilliant Genome Dub Collective, who have set the Origin of Species to a reggae beat. Genius. Of course, that’s alongside the hottest new research on RNAi, 7000 year old rice paddies, and dinosaurs brought to life on the stage.

The easiest way to listen is of course to subscribe in iTunes. Many thanks of course go to Chris Smith and his Naked Scientists who produced the podcast from its humble beginnings. Thanks also to the Genome Dub Collective for sharing their work with a Creative Commons license.

After two years and 102 shows, we are relaunching the Nature Podcast today. We’ve got new music, some new presenters (Kerri Smith, and erm, yours truly) and some ace new features on the pod. These include the Podium: a soapbox monologue (so if you’ve got a campaign to launch, or you simply want to shout about something sciencey that’s bugging you then write to us at podcast@nature.com); and Sounds of Science, your chance to record some amazing sounds from your labspace or field, or anything that sounds awesome. This week we’ve got Nature’s top dog Philip Campbell at the Podium, and Sounds of Science is the quite brilliant Genome Dub Collective, who have set the Origin of Species to a reggae beat. Genius. Of course, that’s alongside the hottest new research on RNAi, 7000 year old rice paddies, and dinosaurs brought to life on the stage.

The easiest way to listen is of course to subscribe in iTunes. Many thanks of course go to Chris Smith and his Naked Scientists who produced the podcast from its humble beginnings. Thanks also to the Genome Dub Collective for sharing their work with a Creative Commons license.

With our fully functional studio up and running, and full time staff working our little socks off, we’ve recently scaled up our podcasting output to include new sections in the weekly Nature Podcast, as well as several stand-alone shows on Genetics, World Heart Day and Chemistry. Recent highlights have been evolution editor Henry Gee interviewing a leading paleoanthropologist over a curry, journalist Geoff Brumfiel persuading a senior NASA official to pretend to be a space shuttle after another delayed launch and an interview with a leading Iranian cosmologist on what it means to be a scientist and a Muslim in Iran. Look out for next week’s show which will feature both Nobel and Ig Nobel prize winners.

With our fully functional studio up and running, and full time staff working our little socks off, we’ve recently scaled up our podcasting output to include new sections in the weekly Nature Podcast, as well as several stand-alone shows on Genetics, World Heart Day and Chemistry. Recent highlights have been evolution editor Henry Gee interviewing a leading paleoanthropologist over a curry, journalist Geoff Brumfiel persuading a senior NASA official to pretend to be a space shuttle after another delayed launch and an interview with a leading Iranian cosmologist on what it means to be a scientist and a Muslim in Iran. Look out for next week’s show which will feature both Nobel and Ig Nobel prize winners.

Last night we published a special one-off podcast on stem cells. Some of our listeners requested longer and more in depth podcasts to complement the weekly magazine show, the Nature Podcast, so this is in part a response to those requests. The show runs to an hour, and features interviews with authors from the Insight on stem cells, published in this week’s issue of Nature, but also a roundtable discussion and interviews from last week’s ESHRE conference in Prague. It’s presented by Gareth Mitchell in the Uk and Allan Coukell in Boston, BBC and NPR, respectively.

Have a listen and let us know what you think. We’ll be doing more of these one-off shows in the future, so feedback is always appreciated.

Last night we published a special one-off podcast on stem cells. Some of our listeners requested longer and more in depth podcasts to complement the weekly magazine show, the Nature Podcast, so this is in part a response to those requests. The show runs to an hour, and features interviews with authors from the Insight on stem cells, published in this week’s issue of Nature, but also a roundtable discussion and interviews from last week’s ESHRE conference in Prague. It’s presented by Gareth Mitchell in the Uk and Allan Coukell in Boston, BBC and NPR, respectively.

Have a listen and let us know what you think. We’ll be doing more of these one-off shows in the future, so feedback is always appreciated.

Here’s the latest launch from Web Publishing, the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for neuroscientists. The idea is to publish and highlight neuroscience content from Nature and other journals, but also to act as a central hub for all neuroscience and genomics researchers. It follows in the footsteps of the Signaling Gateway and the Cell Migration Gateway, and is a collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Research, set up by the philanthropist Paul Allen.

And crucially it serves as a front end to the Allen Brain Atlas–a free resource which provides maps of the expression of 20,000 genes in the mouse brain with detailed gene expression data available at the cellular level. That’s no small potatoes.

This is my first post to Nascent. Just to introduce, I’m Adam Rutherford, the editor for Web Publishing. I’ve been at Nature for ever, but have been on an extended leave for the last few months, initially making a TV program, and then on paternity leave for the birth of my daughter in April. I’m primarily responsible for podcasting here at Nature, and my interests include cricket and extended periods of sleep deprivation.

Here’s the latest launch from Web Publishing, the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for neuroscientists. The idea is to publish and highlight neuroscience content from Nature and other journals, but also to act as a central hub for all neuroscience and genomics researchers. It follows in the footsteps of the Signaling Gateway and the Cell Migration Gateway, and is a collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Research, set up by the philanthropist Paul Allen.

And crucially it serves as a front end to the Allen Brain Atlas–a free resource which provides maps of the expression of 20,000 genes in the mouse brain with detailed gene expression data available at the cellular level. That’s no small potatoes.

This is my first post to Nascent. Just to introduce, I’m Adam Rutherford, the editor for Web Publishing. I’ve been at Nature for ever, but have been on an extended leave for the last few months, initially making a TV program, and then on paternity leave for the birth of my daughter in April. I’m primarily responsible for podcasting here at Nature, and my interests include cricket and extended periods of sleep deprivation.