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Nature is running a special on science journalism, to coincide with the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, taking place in London (if you’re going, I’ll see you there!) this week.
The articles are free for the next few weeks, and amongst them are three excellent essays. The first, by Toby Murcott, asks how science can [...]

A new science podcast to add to your iTunes subscriptions. Martin Archer and our own Greg Foot bring you the latest from the world of science in a pod packed full of quirky news and funky features.
The first pod has news on a possible cure for blindness, programmable matter and sex research. Plus how to [...]

This week the Nature podcast team discover a 35,000 year-old figurine with exaggerated breasts, look back to the origins of RNA, look forward to a new light source that could replace ugly fluorescent strip lights, and ask: is free will an illusion?

On this week’s Nature Podcast, Adam, Kerri, Charlotte and the gang look at climate change: Nicholas Stern tells how the recession could help curb global warming, Nature’s climate science editor is in the studio to talk about the latest research, and scientists imagine what the world would look like in the worst-case scenario of 1000ppm [...]

This week on the Nature Podcast, Kerri Smith and Adam Rutherford unzip nanotubes to make some graphene nanoribbons, challenge the idea that closely related species have similar cognitive abilities and hear about the world’s largest network of cosmic ray detectors in Argentina. All that, plus the weekly NewsChat, celebrating the life of John Maddox, former [...]