This week on the pod: 🐒 Complete sequencing of ape genomes ⚛️ How to make a competitive laser-plasma accelerator go.nature.com/3FXx3Td

This week on the pod: 🥔 A potato pangenome 📄 The top cited twenty-first century research papers go.nature.com/3Er1IYy

In our latest episode of What's In A Name - we look at how ideas can be lost in translation when physicists try to name the unknown go.nature.com/4jfW9eA

This week on the pod: 🟩 A brand new colour 🐷 Pig liver transplants 🍗 A chunk of lab-grown chicken go.nature.com/3S8gTc8

This week on the pod: 🎣 How fishing activity altered the migration pattern of Herring 🧠 How might AI companions affect users' mental health? go.nature.com/3YxE1Vj

We're examining recent developments at the US NSF, which has seen significant numbers of research grants terminated We also discuss Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2026, which calls for disproportionately large cuts to federal science funding go.nature.com/4dpD6MY

This week on the pod 🔊 🚚 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road trip ⚫ The mathematics of a near-miss between black holes go.nature.com/4dicwoV

This week on the pod 🔊 🦟 Treating mosquitoes for malaria 🧬 The genetics that can lead to pregnancy loss go.nature.com/4krThLR

This week on the pod: 📝 Was a boom in papers driven by AI? 🔎 Lenses that give humans infrared vision 🌎 Does the Earth's core have a leak? go.nature.com/43OWWOf

Audio long read 🔊 Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky go.nature.com/3ZM5Auz

This week on the pod 🔊 🧬 Iron’s role in mice sex determination 🎣 The role of small-scale fishers in sustainability go.nature.com/4e8ODAJ

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan go.nature.com/4kxy4R7

This week on the pod 🔊 ✨ The tiny moths that use the stars to navigate 👤 How humans expanded their habitats before migrating out of Africa go.nature.com/3G314kH

This week on the pod 🔊 🖥️ Is AI-research being co-opted to keep track of people? 🌌 The first images from the world’s largest digital camera go.nature.com/4eicopM

This week on the pod: 🐝 Why animals evolve to be imperfect mimics go.nature.com/3Gr2A0b

This week on the pod 🔊 🦠 The past 35,000 years of disease 🐳 Using whale poo to study toxic algae in the Arctic go.nature.com/4lk33QY

This week on the pod: 🦈 The ancient mega-predator with a ‘stealth mode’ 💤 ‘Leaky’ mitochondria could be the root cause of sleep 📄 The secret messages used to trick peer-review AI go.nature.com/3Ueu24v

How can we make scientific literature free of errors? Our new series figures it out 🔊 go.nature.com/46hI8tj

This week on the pod: 🟨 How hot can solid gold get? ☢️ Researchers warn about the threat of nuclear war go.nature.com/3IJoQTV

This week on the pod 🔊 🌊 The deepest ecosystem ever discovered 🦠 How infections could awaken dormant cancer go.nature.com/3JbfRef