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How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
2026-1-28 | 24 min.
In this episode:

00:46 Why completing difficult tasks feels rewarding
Nature: Touponse et al.

11:34 Research Highlights
Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
Nature: Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings

13:43 How extreme weather events could threaten malaria elimination efforts
Nature: Touponse et al.

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Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
2026-1-26 | 18 min.
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Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
2026-1-23 | 12 min.
In this episode:

00:24 How babies share their gut microbes
Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome

05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattle
Science: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools

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The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
2026-1-21 | 26 min.
00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments
Nature: Pedalino et al.
News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'

11:46 Research Highlights
Nature: Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking
Nature: Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans

14:11 How Trump’s second term has impacted research
Nature: US science after a year of Trump
Nature: US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year
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Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
2026-1-16 | 10 min.
In this episode:

00:40 The rock samples destined to remain on Mars
Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

05:24 The genetics of dogs’ droopy ears
Nature: Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears

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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 the Nature journal. We meet the scientists behind the results and provide in-depth analysis from Nature's journalists and editors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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