Nature Podcast

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In this episode:

00:24 How babies share their gut microbes
Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome

05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattle
Science: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools

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00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments
Nature: Pedalino et al.
News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'

11:46 Research Highlights
Nature: Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking
Nature: Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans

14:11 How Trump’s second term has impacted research
Nature: US science after a year of Trump
Nature: US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year
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In this episode:

00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on Mars
Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

05:24 The genetics of dogs’ droopy ears
Nature: Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears

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In this episode:

00:47 AI can boost research productivity — at what cost?
Research article: Hao et al.

10:10 Research Highlights
Nature: Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
Nature: Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage

12:41 JWST images are full of red dots, what are they?
Nature: Rusakov et al.

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