Nature Podcast

This week on the pod: 🌵 How extreme climatic events threaten cacti 🏥 Testing a new way to define obesity go.nature.com/4iNPyce

This week on the pod 🔊 🗣️ How Celtic and Germanic languages spread across Europe 🧠 Why part of the brain may not be controlling emotions in the way researchers thought go.nature.com/4eblA0A

This week, the team discussed the emerging field of pet longevity — plus, a researcher decides not to care about their student reviews. Are they wrong? go.nature.com/3WEMYOo

This week on the pod 🔊 🏖️ A failed desert expedition to find human tools reveals what humans needed to thrive 🛰️ Could satellites help cool Earth? go.nature.com/48qINIx

This week on the pod: 🧂 How salt marshes could protect coastal regions from super-storms 💀 Putting a face to the Denisovans go.nature.com/4i0pY4H

Although worries are growing about AI's potential to blunt reasoning skills, research has uncovered ways to keep the brain sharp go.nature.com/47Z4VJY

This week on the pod 🔊 🌳 The world may have more conservation areas than previously thought 🟫 Giant study expands list of brown fat’s health benefits go.nature.com/4yFawjL

It was the Nobel Prizes this week! Join the team for a roundup of the 2026 science prizes go.nature.com/4zoQWJ7

This week on the pod 🔊 ▪️ Investigating the day-to-day impacts of Financial Abuse ▪️ How opposing forces in the Earth's core alter how the planet spins go.nature.com/4jkZbB7

Latest from the pod 🔊 🧠 Human brain-organoids transplanted into mice missing their cortex 📃 The AI tool that lets researchers talk to papers go.nature.com/4reJ75X

This week on the pod: 🌊 The world’s oceans reach a record temperature 👓 How mitochondrial injections could treat vision loss go.nature.com/4y4Spnj

This week on the pod: 🌟 The star that could reveal a black hole’s spin 💀 Commercial exoskeletons are hitting the market — what now? go.nature.com/4xcyUJw

Are you ready for the eclipse today? Find out what scientists hope to learn 🌚 go.nature.com/4wVUcL5

The team discuss some of the most intriguing science news from this week: 🧬 Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? go.nature.com/3RR7hGw

This week on the pod: 🦴 Ancient structures hidden beneath the Amazon’s canopy 🦑 Tiny fossils represent the earliest-known squid ancestor go.nature.com/4pNBWRu

This week on the pod: 🌝 The discovery of a moon-like object in a distant star system 🧬 A discovery of a new type of rare transmissible cancer go.nature.com/4fvYmC6

This week on the pod: 🐀 The secret scent behind a naked mole-rat's rule 🎲 The psychology behind a brand-new board game: the behaviour of beginners go.nature.com/3Rfvx4A

This week on the pod: ☢️ A neutron detector could sniff out a secret space nuke 🌎 How Indigenous knowledge in the Amazon could disappear go.nature.com/4aKOKlj

This week on the pod: 🏥 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs 🌌 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they should go.nature.com/43PDpg5

This week on the pod: ☠️ Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks ⚙️ A prototype atom interferometer go.nature.com/4uKDooK