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The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025
Nature put a call out for readers to tell us about memorable presents that first got them interested in science, or mementos of their life in research. These include telescopes, yeast-themed wedding rings, and... cows’ eyes.
Nature: The gift that shaped my career in science
In the first of our annual festive songs celebrating the science of the past year, we tell the story of a diminutive dinosaur that turned out to be its own species.
Nature Podcast: Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
Nature Video: Hotly debated dinosaur is not a tiny T. rex after all
An all-star cast competes for the glory or being the winner of the Nature Podcast’s 2025 festive quiz.
Nature: Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
Nature: This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started
Nature Podcast: 3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry
Nature Video: ‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves
Nature Podcast: Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin
Nature Video: Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass
Nature Podcast: Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop
Nature Video: Magnetic fibres give this robot a soft grip
Nature: These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut
Nature Video: Is this really the world's largest mirror? Researchers put it to the test
Nature Podcast: World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery
Nature Podcast: Earth’s deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea
Nature Podcast: Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz
Nature Podcast: Apocalypse then: how cataclysms shaped human societies
Nature Podcast: Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive
Our second festive song is an ode to a rubber duck that was stuck to a rock, thanks to a newly designed, super-adhesive hydrogel.
Nature Podcast: Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test
Nature Video: Why did researchers stick a duck to a rock? To show off their super glue
Each year, Nature’s 10 highlights some of the people who have helped shape science over the past 12 months. We hear about a few of the people who made the 2025 list, including: a civil servant who stood up for evidence-based public-health policy; the science sleuth who revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universities; and the baby whose life was saved by the first personalized CRISPR therapy.
Nature: Nature’s 10
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