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The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2022
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
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Podcast episode
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01:07 “Artemis and Dart”In the first of our festive songs, we celebrate some of the big space missions from this year: Artemis which aims to get people back to the moon, and DART which could help defend the Earth from meteor strikes. Head here for the lyrics.03:51 Redacted Headline challengeIn this year’s festive game, our competitors work together to try and figure out some Nature Podcast headlines where all the words have been removed. Find out how they get on…15:57 Research HighlightsResearch Highlight: Why does fat return after dieting? The microbiome might have a handResearch Highlight: Revealed: massive Maya structures built by vast labour forces18:31 Nature’s 10Every year, Nature’s 10 highlights some of the people who have shaped science. We hear about a few of the people who made the 2022 list.Nature’s 1030:40 “Fairytale of Omicron”In our final song this year, we imagine ourselves in a wintry lab thinking on genetic data from the Omicron variant of coronavirus… Head here for the lyrics.Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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