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This week on the pod:

🎇 A coronal mass ejection from a distant star
🧬 The rare genetic variants that might increase the risk of ADHD
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Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 12 November 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This week on the pod:

🦖 The debate around Nanotyrannus
💊 A less invasive way to prevent breast cancer

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Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 05 November 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week on the pod:

🐋 How bowhead whales live so long
🐍 An antivenom against a broad range of snakebites

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Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years — this protein might be why
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 October 2025
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October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This week on the pod:

🍔 How hunger, hormones and aggression interact in mouse brains
🎓 What generative AI could mean for higher education

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Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 October 2025
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October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week on the pod:

💉 A multi-variant avian flu vaccine that could enhance pandemic preparedness

& research highlights and more

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New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 October 2025
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October 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This week on the pod:

🖥️ The stereotypes hidden in Internet images
💫 Astronomers name their favourite exoplanet

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How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025
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October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It's the 900th episode of the Nature Podcast! 🎉

This week: Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025
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October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This week on the pod:

🦠 How ancient viruses drive modern human development
🧬 How heat can fuel DNA computers
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Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025
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October 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This week on the pod:

🧠 New insights into tick-borne encephalitis
🔬 How might cancelled NIH grants affect the future of US science?
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How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 September 2025
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September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week on the pod:

🩺 The AI tool that predicts disease risk
🖥️ Give an AI a task and it may cheat for you

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This AI tool predicts your risk of 1,000 diseases — by looking at your medical records
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 7 September 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week on the pod:

🐜 The ant queen that can produce two different species
🌉 How to keep bridges standing
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Two ants, two species, one mother
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 September 2025
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September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This week on the pod:

🇫🇷 How the 18th-Century 'Great Fear’ spread across rural France
⚛️ The quantum interpretation quiz

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Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 27 August 2025
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August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This week on the pod 🔊

💡 Electrochemical fusion
🍫 Microbial taste of chocolate
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Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 August 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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☀️ Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
🍎 Quantum gravity goes to the lab
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Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 13 August 2025
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August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🦆 Researchers develop a new glue and test it on a rubber duck
🦠 The diversity of microbes within living trees

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Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 06 August 2025
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August 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🌊 The deepest ecosystem ever discovered
🦠 How infections could awaken dormant cancer

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Earth's deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 30 July 2025
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July 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This week on the Nature Podcast 🔊

🟨 How hot can solid gold get?
☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war

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Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 July 2025
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July 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This week on the pod:

🟨 How hot can solid gold get?
☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war

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Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 July 2025
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July 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
How can we make scientific literature free of errors? Our new series figures it out 🔊

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AI, bounties and culture change, how scientists are taking on errors
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21/07/25
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July 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This week on the pod:

🦈 The ancient mega-predator with a ‘stealth mode’
💤 ‘Leaky’ mitochondria could be the root cause of sleep
📄 The secret messages used to trick peer-review AI
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‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 16 July 2025
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July 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This week on the pod 🔊

🦠 The past 35,000 years of disease
🐳 Using whale poo to study toxic algae in the Arctic
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Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 09 July 2025
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July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This week on the pod:

🐝 Why animals evolve to be imperfect mimics

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3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025
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July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This week on the pod 🔊

🖥️ Is AI-research being co-opted to keep track of people?
🌌 The first images from the world’s largest digital camera

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Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 June 2025
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June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This week on the pod 🔊

✨ The tiny moths that use the stars to navigate
👤 How humans expanded their habitats before migrating out of Africa

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Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 June 2025
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June 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM