This week on the pod: 🦴 Ancient structures hidden beneath the Amazon’s canopy 🦑 Tiny fossils represent the earliest-known squid ancestor go.nature.com/4xeowRc
Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 July 2026
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This week on the pod: 🌝 The discovery of a moon-like object in a distant star system 🧬 A discovery of a new type of rare transmissible cancer go.nature.com/4b2NlH1
What counts as a moon? Huge ‘exosatellite’ sparks debate
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 July 2026
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This week on the pod: 🐀 The secret scent behind a naked mole-rat's rule 🎲 The psychology behind a brand-new board game: the behaviour of beginners go.nature.com/4wKBohE
‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 July 2026
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This week on the pod: ☢️ A neutron detector could sniff out a secret space nuke 🌎 How Indigenous knowledge in the Amazon could disappear go.nature.com/4yhgWXk
Nukes in space? Orbital detector could sniff out warheads
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 July 2026
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This week on the pod: 🏥 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs 🌌 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they should go.nature.com/4xLZIRj
Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 June 2026
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This week on the pod: ☠️ Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks ⚙️ A prototype atom interferometer go.nature.com/3SNB2b2
DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 June 2026
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This week on the pod: 🐳 A giant, ancient whale necropolis 🌱 Turning plant material into chemical building-blocks go.nature.com/4dZHlRe
Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 June 2026
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This week on the pod: 🧑🔬 Meet the AI scientists designed to accelerate research 📱 Using LiDAR to look around corners go.nature.com/3RcDnvJ
AI ‘scientists’ promise to accelerate research — how do they work?
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 20 May 2026
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This week on the pod: 🟥 Is red-light therapy all hype? 📈 The complex story of global obesity rates go.nature.com/3PicTbu
Red-light therapy is all the rage — does it work?
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 May 2026
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This week on the pod: 🧠 Probing the unconscious brain’s processing ability go.nature.com/49dBzIQ
Anaesthetized brains can still process podcasts
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 May 2026
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This week on the pod: 🥐 How eating can boost the immune system ☢️ The pressing need to plan for future nuclear disasters go.nature.com/48YH9Pa
Immunity gets a boost from a surprising place — breakfast
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 April 2026
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This week on the pod: 🤖 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros 🍎 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big G go.nature.com/4vK8v5f
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 April 2026
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This week on the pod: 💊 A massive trial assessing the outcomes of ‘off label’ cancer treatment 🧬 10,000 years of western Eurasian evolution go.nature.com/4vwKzlL
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 April 2026
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ICYMI our correspondent Alexandra Witze told the Nature Podcast what it was like to be at NASA's Mission Control during the historic Moon fly-by go.nature.com/42169Bp
Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 April 2026
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This week on the pod: ✈️ Collecting contrails at 30,000 feet 🃏 Fakery in science go.nature.com/4sj37Dy
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 April 2026
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This week on the pod: 🦟 Why insects aren’t massive 🧬 CRISPR creates CAR-T cancer therapy inside mice go.nature.com/4t2WLsp
Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 March 2026
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This week, the team are discussing the age old question - are scientists funny? go.nature.com/4sYDDMq
Briefing Chat: Are scientists funny? The evidence is in — and it's no joke
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 20 March 2025
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This week on the pod: 🌸 How plants make a crucial malaria drug go.nature.com/4bn6cf2
Botanical mystery solved: how plants make a crucial malaria drug
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 March 2026
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This week on the pod: 🐟 Unravelling the genetics of an asexual fish that should be extinct 🌠 How a superluminous supernova got so bright go.nature.com/4b7PGkt
This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 March 2026
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This week on the pod: 🫀 A magnetic seal to stop clots forming in the heart 💎 Making hexagonal diamond www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4 March 2026
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This week on the pod: 👟 The science of squeaky shoes 🧠 Evidence of hippocampal neurogenesis go.nature.com/46ta38W
How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 February 2026
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This week on the pod: 🧊 This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years 💉 An mRNA vaccine for triple-negative breast cancer go.nature.com/4rZDhVk
This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 February 2026
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This week on the pod: 🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains 🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion go.nature.com/3MAKJag
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 February 2026
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This week on the pod: 💪 These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate 📄 The open-source AI that performs scientific literature reviews go.nature.com/4bC7i8O
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4th February 2026
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This week on the pod: ✅ Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding ⛈️ How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts go.nature.com/4q7CGiZ
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 28 January 2026
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This week on the pod: 🐱 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments 🇺🇸 How Trump’s second term has impacted research go.nature.com/3YMMvHV
The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 January 2026
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This week on the pod: 🍋 The exoplanet shaped like a lemon ⛵ The origin of an ancient boat go.nature.com/4pt8sXq
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 07 January 2026
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It's the 2025 festive special! 🌲 ❄️ Listen for memorable science-themed gifts, games, seasonal songs, and Nature's 10 go.nature.com/3L3oM2O
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 December 2025
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This week on the pod: 🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire 🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease go.nature.com/44Zl68U
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 December 2025
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This week on the pod: 🌌 How satellite mega-constellations could ruin space-based astronomy 🖥️ The negative consequences of video call glitches go.nature.com/4ovr5cE
Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 03 December 2025
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