Nature Podcast Transcripts
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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.
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Audio long read: How to stay smart in the age of AI — the science of critical thinking
October 19, 2026
Benjamin Thompson (0:02)
This is an audio long read from Nature. In this episode, How to Stay Smart in the Age of AI, The Science of Critical Thinking, written by Helen Pearson and read by me, Benjamin Thompson.
Earlier this year, education researcher Li Xiangyan realized that students could outsource all of their work for his university course to artificial intelligence. Yen, who teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, was using an agentic AI called Codex to set up an online course on a learning management…
- Audio long read: How to stay smart in the age of AI — the science of critical thinking
- Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears
- The world is closer to a major conservation target than scientists thought
- Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies
- Nobel Prizes 2026: brain switches, ‘ghost’ particle hunter, and 'the chemistry of life'
- ‘Learning about physics changed my life’: author Hernan Diaz on his new novel Ply
- These optical illusions are why butterflies are so hard to catch
- Briefing Chat: Why scientists made papyrus scrolls, then burnt them
- Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control
- Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
- Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex
- Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air
- Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close
- Briefing Chat: How 1,000 pairs of buried underpants helped measure soil health
- Audio long read: Could mending damaged DNA prolong life?
- Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science
- Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies
- Briefing Chat: New narcolepsy drug could unlock host of novel brain therapies
- A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star
- Briefing Chat: Anthropic rolls out new AI watermark — will it make a difference?
- The probiotic bacteria engineered to treat diabetes
- Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole-rats offer tantalizing hints
- Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick
- Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
- Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils
- What counts as a moon? Huge ‘exosatellite’ sparks debate
- Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space
- ‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule
- Briefing Chat: The 30 year-legacy of a science icon – Dolly the sheep
- Nukes in space? Orbital detector could sniff out warheads
- Togetherness: How co-operation built the world
- Audio long read: Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype
- Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech
- Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability
- Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm may get a boost from obesity drugs
- DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague
- Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone
- Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years
- Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments
- Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate
- Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers
- How to tame a toxic yet life-saving antifungal
- A new hydrogel can be directly injected into muscle to help it regenerate
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