18 December: Sleepy songbirds, sun damage, mega-masers, Nature's Newsmaker of the Year, and our seasonal gift suggestions: what to get the scientist who has everything.
Nature: 11 December 2008
10 Dec 2008 @ 11:46 am
11 December: Cognitive enhancing drugs, stormy weather on an extrasolar planet, ocean cleaning bacteria, science and the food crisis, and our weekly news round-up.
4 December 2008
3 Dec 2008 @ 01:00 am
4 December: Cancer stem cells and tumour development, predicting the size of tsunamis, spotting a supernova from 1572, the future of farming, and our weekly news chat.
Nature: 27 November 2008
26 Nov 2008 @ 01:00 am
27 November: Turtles in a half shell, water on Saturn's sixth moon, a new book about photosynthesis and news from this year's biggest neuro jamboree.
Nature: 20 November 2008
19 Nov 2008 @ 01:00 am
20 November: The woolly mammoth genome decoded, a 'proto-eye' of the kind predicted by Darwin, the controversial theory of group selection, and a tantalizing trace of dark matter.
Nature: 13 November 2008
12 Nov 2008 @ 01:00 am
13 November: Learning who to trust, how cooling bird brains slows down song, controlling quantum dots for computing, how entrepreneurs think, and a round-up of science news.
Nature: 6 November 2008
5 Nov 2008 @ 09:54 am
6 November: Individual genomes and personal genomics, lemmings threatened by climate change, how to find dark matter, and a news round-up with news editor Mark Peplow.
Nature: 30 October 2008
29 Oct 2008 @ 02:00 am
30 October: Ancient tsunamis, infected frogs, what economics can learn from physics, and a new book about the enigmatic Antikythera mechanism.
Podcast Extra: The Antikythera mechanism
29 Oct 2008 @ 02:00 am
Podcast Extra: We talk to the author of a new book that traces the 2000 year history of the world's first computer, from ancient Greece, via the bottom of the sea, to 3D X-ray analysis in the pages of Nature.
Nature: 23 October 2008
22 Oct 2008 @ 02:00 am
23 October: Feathered dinosaurs, X-ray producing sticky tape, the many faces of autism and oxygen-producing bacteria that aren't quite as ancient as we thought.
