Designing a nutritious and planet-friendly diet, and an AI that guides mathematicians.
In this episode:
00:46 Designing a healthy diet for the planet
Researchers are trying to develop diets that help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time providing nutrition. Some of these sustainable diets are now being tested to see if they work in local contexts without damaging livelihoods.
Feature: What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet
08:24 Research Highlights
How jellyfish get by without a centralised brain, and reading the runes within a medieval lead amulet.
Research Highlight: How jellyfish control their lives
Research Highlight: Neutron beam sheds light on medieval faith and superstition
10:32 The AI guiding mathematicians’ intuition
Finding relationships between two seemingly unrelated groups of objects is an important part of some branches of mathematics. To help speed up this process, a new AI has been developed, which points mathematicians towards potential relationships, allowing them to come up with new conjectures.
Research article: Davies et al.
News and Views: Artificial intelligence aids intuition in mathematical discovery
11:23 Briefing Chat
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, a pendant made from mammoth tusk, and developing lab-grown fish for food.
Nature News: Is this mammoth-ivory pendant Eurasia’s oldest surviving jewellery?
Nature Biotechnology: No bones, no scales, no eyeballs: appetite grows for cell-based seafood
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Audio long read: ‘Almost magical’ — chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core
Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages
Why bladder cancer cells that shed their Y chromosome become more aggressive
What IBM's result means for quantum computing
A brain circuit for infanticide, in mice
AI identifies gene interactions to speed up search for treatment targets
Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?
‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost
JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail
Nature's Take: Can Registered Reports help tackle publication bias?
‘Pangenome’ aims to capture the breadth of human diversity
Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up
Audio long read: Conquering Alzheimer’s — a look at the therapies of the future
How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
A smarter way to melt down plastics?
How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden
Octopuses hunt by 'tasting' with their suckers
Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form
Audio long read: What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting
Bacterial ‘syringes’ could inject drugs directly into human cells
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