Nature Podcast

Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey

Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers

How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers

Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data

These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies' brains

Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant

These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate

Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing

How your brain chemistry rewards hard work

Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes

The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition

Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears

AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope

This episode of the Nature Podcast explores the impact of AI tools on scientific research. It questions whether AI's increasing role leads to a narrowing of scientific focus, even as it boosts individual researchers' productivity. A study of over 310,000 papers reveals that AI-augmented research correlates with more ci...

A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed

Science in 2026: what to expect this year