Nature Podcast: 23 April 2015

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Nature Podcast: 23 April 2015

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Apr 22, 2015

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The Nature Podcast brings you the best stories from the world of science each week. We cover everything from astronomy to zoology, highlighting the most exciting research from each issue of Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and providing in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors.

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Nature Podcast: 7 May 2015: This week, brain-inspired computers, scientists soldiering on past retirement age, and the origins of complex cells deduced from deep-sea samples. by Nature Podcast
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Nature Extra: Futures: Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Geoff Marsh reads you his favourite from January, The Descent of Man, by Christoph Weber. by Nature Podcast
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Nature Podcast: 23 April 2015: This week, a new treatment for Ebola, the making of the Tibetan plateau, and could bees be addicted to pesticides? by Nature Podcast
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