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The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of the Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors.

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948 - Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game

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Episodes

Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game

This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates

Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey

Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers

How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers

Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data

These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies' brains

Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant

These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate

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

How your brain chemistry rewards hard work

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

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

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

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

AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope

A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed

Science in 2026: what to expect this year

Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?

The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025

Nature's News & Views roundup of 2025

The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025

Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago

Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes

Audio long read: Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases — fixing them is about to get a lot easier

This is what lightning on Mars sounds like

Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes

‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer

Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last

Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species

Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years – this protein might be why

Audio long read: How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says

Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive

New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot

How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring

Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

Audio long read: Autism is on the rise — what’s really behind the increase?

How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain

Apocalypse then: how cataclysms shaped human societies

This AI tool predicts your risk of 1,000 diseases — by looking at your medical records

Detecting gravitational waves

Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves

Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back

Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz

Two ants, two species, one mother

Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI