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Podcast title	Nature Podcast
Website URL	http://www.nature.com/nature/p...
Description	Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data.
Updated	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:20:11 +0000
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Category	Science & Medicine
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1. Nature: 18 March 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 27.74Mb) Description: 18 March: Quantum behaviour in a visible object, how modern forensic techniques are helping criminal law suits, the sinister side of male pregnancy in pipefish, and we ask: are we alone in the universe?
2. Nature: 11 March 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 10.66Mb) Description: 11 March: Half-male, half-female chickens challenge ideas about sex determination, Einstein's theory of relativity tested beyond our Solar System, and behind the scenes at the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment.
3. Nature: 4 February 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 13.96Mb) Description: 4 February: How our body's own cells could cause sepsis after trauma, the risks of enriching uranium using lasers, new fossil helps piece together dinosaur evolution, and genome sequencing on a massive scale in China.
4. Nature: 25 February 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.66Mb) Description: 25 February: Electric currents enable marine bacteria to wire together, how our brains respond to social inequality, an exoplanet losing its atmosphere, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
5. Nature: 18 February 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.67Mb) Description: 18 February: How to redesign the ribosome to make designer proteins, feedback from the first seismologist on the scene of the Haiti quake, and the incredible diversity between South African genomes.
6. Nature: 11 February 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 12.19Mb) Description: 11 February: First genome of ancient human sequenced from hair, how to weigh a really heavy atom, the future of climate change research and the IPCC, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
7. Nature: 4 February 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 10.56Mb) Description: 4 February: Quantum mechanical processes involved in plant photosynthesis, decay could be biasing fossil records, how to fix the internet, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
8. Nature: 28 January 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.38Mb) Description: 28 January: Engineered bacteria produce better biofuels, functional brain cells created from skin cells, fossils from Northern China reveal colour of dinosaur feathers, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
9. Nature: 21 January 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 12.58Mb) Description: 21 January: How mammals got to Madagascar, synthetic biologists synchronize bacterial clocks, Asian emissions polluting atmosphere above western North America, the holes in climate research, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
10. Nature: 14 January 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 14.97Mb) Description: 14 January: Canada in need of polar research policy, the evolution of the human and chimp Y chromosomes, stress increases variation in a population, a two-decade-old galactic conundrum solved, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
11. Nature: 7 January 2010 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 5.78Mb) Description: 7 January: A set of fossil footprints push back the date of the first four-legged creatures, we ask where science will be ten years from now, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
12. Nature: 24 December 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 12.29Mb) Description: 24 December: Calculating the velocity of climate change, how to pick the right genomes to sequence, a look back at cancer genomics in 2009 and a round up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
13. Nature: 17 December 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.24Mb) Description: 17 December: Sequencing of the giant panda genome provides clues to its diet, a waterworld orbiting a nearby star, how wars follow power laws, earthquake risks from geothermal energy.
14. Nature: 10 December 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 13.13Mb) Description: 10 December: Why female birds glam up when sharing childcare, the rapid refilling of the Mediterranean basin, why the probability of species extinction is constant, how modifying fear responses could help treat anxiety disorders and a round up of the best of the rest of Nature.
15. Nature: 3 December 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 12.18Mb) Description: 3 December: A huge exploding star, fighting climate change with technology, the secrets of an important plant hormone, and how the brain rewires with learning.
16. Nature: 26 November 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.59Mb) Description: 26 November: New spintronic device paves way for future information processing, the role of a 'bone' protein pair in the menopause, how we hear with our skin, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
17. Nature: 19 November 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 31.42Mb) Description: 19 November: Why paleontologists should predict instead of just describe, how to factor environmental goods into the economy, the cultural context of Darwin's theories and a round-up of other highlights from Nature.
18. Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 11.53Mb) Description: We measure our economies in terms of trade, production and services - but one vital component is missing: the environment. Pavan Sukhdev is the study leader for a UN-run program on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, and he wants to see these resources accounted for. Kerri Smith talks to him.
19. Nature: 12 November 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 9.37Mb) Description: 12 November: How a language gene behaves in humans and chimps, determining orbiting planets from a star's lithium levels, the run up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
20. Nature: 5 November 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 8.51Mb) Description: 5 November: Scientists take a closer look at a star first spotted in 1680, how unrelated animals lend a helping hand, a 'Pleistocene Park' in the Netherlands, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
21. Nature: 29 October 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 10.06Mb) Description: 29 October: A new type of communication between brain cells is confirmed, a theory about how the Earth became watery, questioning whether the speed of light is constant, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.
22. Nature: 22 October 2009 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 13.37Mb) Description: 22 October: The effects of sleep deprivation on memory, 250 years of London's Kew Gardens, watching evolution in the lab, and climate change in the Himalayas.
23. Nature Insight: Metalloproteins http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 9.37Mb) Description: Proteins that use metals to help them function are called metalloproteins. Join us as we learn how they choose their metal partners, what they use these metals for, and how studying them can help us explain everything from human diseases to the origin of life.
24. Nature Extra: Simon Singh http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 12.43Mb) Description: Simon Singh: Science writer Simon Singh talks to Nature about his legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association and how UK libel laws affect science journalism.
25. Nature Extra: Ian McEwan http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 6.29Mb) Description: Ian McEwan: Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan often takes inspiration from science for his emotion-laden novels. He spoke at an event at University College London last week and Charlotte Stoddart chatted to him afterwards about emotion, literature and the brain.
26. Nature Extra: Nicholas Stern http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 5.49Mb) Description: Nicholas Stern: The author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change explains how the recession could help curb global warming and calls for 'the greatest collaboration the world has ever seen' to reduce global CO2 emissions.
27. Nature Extra: John Maddox http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 3.71Mb) Description: John Maddox: Senior editor Henry Gee remembers John Maddox, famed former Nature editor who died on April 12th 2009.
28. Nature Extra: Paul Bettany http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nat... download (audio/mpeg, 5.76Mb) Description: Paul Bettany: In this exclusive interview for Nature, Bettany talks about playing Darwin in the forthcoming film 'Creation'.