Nature Podcast

In this episode:

00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacier
BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries

05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem
Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’

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In this episode:

00:46 A giant, ancient whale necropolis
Research article: Peng et al.
News & Views: A vast whale necropolis has been found

08:52 Research Highlights
Nature: 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-blocks
Research article: Mains et al.

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In this episode:

00:23 Fossil evidence that spinosaurs had an aquatic lifestyle
Science: Some spinosaurs cried salty tears to thrive in brackish waters

04:57 The explosive immune cells that kill in minutes
Nature: 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 rate
Research article: Liao et al.

08:55 Research Highlights
Nature: 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 answer
Nature: 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 matters
Nature: 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 results
Nature: Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

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