logo
episode-header-image
Dec 2022
34m 51s

The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2...

SPRINGER NATURE LIMITED
About this episode

01:07 “Artemis and Dart”

In the first of our festive songs, we celebrate some of the big space missions from this year: Artemis which aims to get people back to the moon, and DART which could help defend the Earth from meteor strikes.


03:51 Redacted Headline challenge

In this year’s festive game, our competitors work together to try and figure out some Nature Podcast headlines where all the words have been removed. Find out how they get on…


15:57 Research Highlights

Research Highlight: Why does fat return after dieting? The microbiome might have a hand

Research Highlight: Revealed: massive Maya structures built by vast labour forces


18:31 Nature’s 10

Every year, Nature’s 10 highlights some of the people who have shaped science. We hear about a few of the people who made the 2022 list.

Nature’s 10


30:40 “Fairytale of Omicron”

In our final song this year, we imagine ourselves in a wintry lab thinking on genetic data from the Omicron variant of coronavirus…


Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up next
Oct 8
How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring
00:48 The stereotypes hidden in Internet imagesStereotyped assumptions about women’s ages and their perceived job suitability are enhanced by Internet imagery, according to new research. A study of hundreds of thousands of online images shows that women appear younger than men. T ... Show More
35m 31s
Oct 1
Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop
00:50 How ancient viruses drive modern human developmentResearch suggests that ancient viral-DNA embedded in the human genome is playing a key role in early embryo development. Around 8% of our genome consists of endogenous retrovirus DNA — the remnants of ancient infections, but ... Show More
33m 43s
Sep 26
Audio long read: Autism is on the rise — what’s really behind the increase?
In April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism, and said he would soon be announcing a study to find the responsible agent. Although Kennedy said that environmental factors are the main cause of autism, research has shown that genetics pla ... Show More
25m 36s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2022
#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test
‘Get it Done’ is the theme for this year’s Climate Week in New York, with hundreds of events taking place across the city. Reporter James Dinneen is there, and brings us news about how to reduce the massive impact of the shipping industry on greenhouse gas emissions.  NASA’s DART ... Show More
30m 12s
Dec 2023
Science You Missed in 2023
On today’s episode: The plants have been screaming all this time and we haven’t been listening! A millenia-old mystery has been solved! Long COVID… what have scientists figured out about it so far? And the superstar of 2023 has made strides toward better outcomes for some of the ... Show More
1h 9m
Jan 2022
Les découvertes les plus épatantes de 2021
Eurêka ! Alors que le monde entier vit au ralenti sous la dictature des confinements à répétition, cela n'a pas empêché les scientifiques de tout bord de faire de belles découvertes. Nature, santé, espace, histoire... Sciences et Avenir a sélectionné les 10 découvertes les plus m ... Show More
18 m
Dec 2023
This Year's Top Science Stories, Wrapped
2023 was filled with scientific innovation, exploration and new discoveries. A few of the biggest threads we saw unraveling this year came from the James Webb Space Telescope, the changing climate and artificial intelligence. Today, host Regina G. Barber wraps up these three area ... Show More
8m 20s
Apr 2022
Solar Storm Triggers Radio Blackouts
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 51 *Solar storm triggers radio blackouts in Australia A severe X1.1 class solar flare erupting from the surface of the Sun has caused strong shortwave radio blackouts across Australia, the Western Pacific and eastern Asia over the Easter holidays. *Lin ... Show More
25m 50s
Aug 2022
#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
Droughts in many parts of Europe are the worst in 500 years. Even as temperatures begin to cool and some rain begins to fall, it may be a long time till we’re out of the woods. The team explores the impact the droughts are having on things like food production, energy and transpo ... Show More
32m 10s
Apr 2020
Toby Ord: What are the odds civilisation will survive the century?
This week we talk to the philosopher Toby Ord about the end of civilisation as we know it.Ok, it’s not all doom and gloom. As Toby says, he’s an optimistic person, but in his new book The Precipice (£25, Bloomsbury) he explains why we’re at a point in time where we, as a species, ... Show More
35m 35s