Nature Podcast

Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.

00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophy
Nature: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

06:42 Humans and chimps share a laugh
Nature: Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled

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In this episode:

00:46 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs
Research article: Knolle et al.

Correction: The story about medical AI-data privacy incorrectly stated that the number of individuals at high risk of a membership inference attack increases as training-dataset size grows. It should have stated that the increase in risk occurs when the AI model increases in capacity and size.

11:31 Research Highlights
Nature: A long-lived butterfly’s secret to graceful ageing
Nature: It slices! It dices! Sashimi-Bot handles seafood with ease

13:57 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they should
Research article: Labini & Galoppo

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Nature staff discuss preliminary data on the effects of GLP-1 drugs on male fertility plus a two-year trial of a brain-computer interface.

00:18 Brain-computer interface makes a life-changing impact
Nature: At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back

05:39 The possible benefits of obesity drugs on testosterone
Nature: The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality

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In this episode:

00:45 Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks
Research article: Macleod et al.

12:33 Research Highlights
Nature: Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools
Nature: Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria

14:52 A prototype atom interferometer
Research article: Baynham et al.

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In this episode:

00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacier
BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries

05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem
Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’

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