Topic: nature

Nature staff discuss an AI tool for assessing the effects of nine billion human genetic mutations, followed by research challenging assumptions about Bunsen burners and contamination near laboratory work areas. This episode is part of Nature Podcast’s Briefing Chat series and is available from the publisher on Acast.

Nature's Benjamin Thompson and Maren Hunsberger discuss research recognised by the 2026 Ig Nobel prizes, including a soil-health experiment, and examine an intriguing signal from a xenon-based dark-matter experiment. Published on 4 September 2026, this episode connects environmental measurement with particle-physics news.

Nature staff discuss evidence that young tyrannosaurs hunted from birth, the weapons used by ancient Egyptian princesses and London’s emerging role in artificial-intelligence safety.

Nature staff discuss the discovery of a four-carbon sugar molecule in interstellar space and a newly decoded formula that identifies a Maya mathematician.

This panel examines the growing need to account for nature and biodiversity in private-sector decisions. Researchers and business practitioners consider the challenges and opportunities involved, in the context of the IPBES assessment of biodiversity and business. The discussion brings perspectives from biodiversity science, management, financial disclosure, industrial leadership and water infrastructure to the relationship between ecosystems and commercial activity.

Codina Cotar discusses mathematical patterns associated with stochastic systems and anomalous diffusion, using entries in a science-and-art competition to explain the ideas. The conversation connects diffusion with familiar materials, quantum phenomena, movement and visual art, and examines how mathematical models inspire creative interpretations of nature.

Part three of Fimbulvinter continues the fictional exploration of people, nature and economic growth. Norwegian audio storytelling by Gaute Einevoll.

Hanna Nyborg Støstad discusses how evolution explains biological diversity and the unusual adaptations found in nature. Conversation in Norwegian.