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Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.
00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophyNature: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
06:42 Humans and chimps share a laughNature: Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled
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In this episode:
00:46 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIsResearch article: Knolle et al.
Correction: The story about medical AI-data privacy incorrectly stated that the number of individuals at high risk of a membership inference attack increases as training-dataset size grows. It should have stated that the increase in risk occurs when the AI model increases in capacity and size.
11:31 Research HighlightsNature: A long-lived butterfly’s secret to graceful ageing
Nature: It slices! It dices! Sashimi-Bot handles seafood with ease
13:57 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they shouldResearch article: Labini & Galoppo
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Nature staff discuss preliminary data on the effects of GLP-1 drugs on male fertility plus a two-year trial of a brain-computer interface.
00:18 Brain-computer interface makes a life-changing impactNature: At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back
05:39 The possible benefits of obesity drugs on testosteroneNature: The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality
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In this episode:
00:45 Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaksResearch article: Macleod et al.
12:33 Research HighlightsNature: Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools
Nature: Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria
14:52 A prototype atom interferometerResearch article: Baynham et al.
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In this episode:
00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacierBBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries
05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystemNature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
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In this episode:
00:46 A giant, ancient whale necropolisResearch article: Peng et al.
News & Views: A vast whale necropolis has been found
08:52 Research HighlightsNature: Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents
Nature: Earliest signs of vision recorded in ancient sea-floor tracks
11:11 Turning plant material into chemical building-blocksResearch article: Mains et al.
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In this episode:
00:23 Fossil evidence that spinosaurs had an aquatic lifestyleScience: Some spinosaurs cried salty tears to thrive in brackish waters
04:57 The explosive immune cells that kill in minutesNature: Bang! Exploding immune cells splatter potent toxins everywhere
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In this episode:
00:57 How your smartphone’s camera could measure your heart rateResearch article: Liao et al.
08:55 Research HighlightsNature: A star gone rogue tears through the Galaxy
Nature: Gold keeps glittering courtesy of surface chemistry
11:04 Should you try something new in a restaurant? Maths has the answerNature: Feynman solved the ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics
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In this episode:
00:21 When witnesses identify suspects from police line-ups, confidence mattersNature: Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony
07:15 Registered Reports: how this ‘double peer review’ process could benefit scientists and their resultsNature: Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
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On 17 May the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an ongoing Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Centred on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the outbreak has seen mounting numbers of suspected cases and deaths linked to the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus.
In this podcast we hear what's currently known about the outbreak and the efforts of clinicians, researchers and public health officials to halt its progress.
Nature: Ebola outbreak is a global health emergency: what happens next
Nature: Race begins to trial Ebola drugs amid current outbreak
Nature: Ebola outbreak spirals out of control: how might it have started?
Nature: Will this Ebola outbreak be the biggest yet?
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In this episode:
00:46 Meet the AI scientists designed to accelerate researchResearch article: Ghareeb et al.
Research article: Gottweis et al.
Nature: Teams of AI agents boost speed of research
Editorial: Why AI cannot do good science without humans
Nature: Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll
13:25 Research HighlightsNature: Dried to survive: desiccated tardigrades tolerate high heat
Nature: Pristine Antarctic ice records the Solar System’s travels
15:35 Using LiDAR to look around cornersResearch article: Somasundaram et al.
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In this episode:
00:34 What questions remain about the hantavirus outbreak?Nature: Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads
Nature: There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaks
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In this episode:
00:42 Is red-light therapy all hype?Disclaimer: The opinions and assertions expressed herein by Juanita Anders are those of the speaker and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences or the Department of War.
Nature: The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works
10:52 Research HighlightsNature: Trafficked pangolins can be traced to their source by DNA — even to a specific forest
Nature: A wispy wrapper for a chilly, Pluto-like world
13:11 The complex story of global obesity ratesResearch article: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration
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Although scientists have long been able to gather DNA from water and soil, it's only recently that they've started to see the air as a source of genetic information.
Airborne DNA is already being used to monitor individual species, but researchers hope its abundance could have multiple uses, including judging the success of conservation efforts or attacks with biological weapons.
However, there remains much to understand, such as how far DNA travels in the air, and the ethics involved in the potential identification of a person's genetic information.
This is an audio version of our Feature: The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
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00:31 The science of attention spans
Nature Feature: Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says
04:54 Data centres in space?Nature News Explainer: AI data hubs in space: when will they take flight?
Nature Comment: Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions
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In this episode:
00:42 Probing the unconscious brain’s processing abilityResearch Article: Katlowitz et al.
Nature: Even the unconscious brain can learn — and predict what you’ll say next
12:32 Research HighlightsNature: An electrifying test to find a good coffee
Nature: Forest pests hit trees hard as temperatures rise
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In this episode:
00:27 How a parasite unveiled a mitochondrial secretNature: Mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved
06:13 The extinct cephalopods that could have been enormousNature: Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues
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In this episode:
00:45 How eating can boost the immune systemResearch Article: Kumar et al.
08:28 Research HighlightsNature: Cosmic-ray detection heralds era of mega-observatories for neutrinos
Nature: Little ants groom big ones in a desert spa
10:53 The pressing need to plan for future nuclear disastersWorld View: Forty years after Chornobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them
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In this episode of Nature hits the books, we speak with Nature's Helen Pearson whose book Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works looks at the history of using evidence, rather than opinion, in decision making.
The book traces the course of the movement in various disciplines, such as the rise of evidence-based medicine in the 90s, looking at the rebels who led the charge, the barriers they faced, and why the use of evidence is crucial at a time when misinformation is rife.
Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works Helen Pearson Princeton University Press (in the press)
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In this episode:
00:45 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the prosResearch Article: Dürr et al.
News and Views: Robot can beat elite players at table tennis
Video: This robot can beat you at table tennis
14:13 Research HighlightsNature: Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust
Nature: Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll
16:21 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big GNature: How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength
Research Article: Schlamminger et al.
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