Behind the scenes of Nature News and Views in 2024
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
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02:54 The death star moon and a win for the little guys
The shifting orbit of one of Saturn’s moons indicates that the satellite has a subsurface ocean, contradicting theories that its interior is entirely solid. The finding calls for a fresh take on what constitutes an ocean moon.
Nature Podcast: 14 February 2024
News and Views: Mimas’s surprise ocean prompts an update of the rule book for moons
07:05 Could red mud make green steel?
Millions of tonnes of ‘red mud’, a hazardous waste of aluminium production, are generated annually. A potentially sustainable process for treating this mud shows that it could become a source of iron for making steel.
Nature Podcast: 24 Jan 2024
News and Views: Iron extracted from hazardous waste of aluminium production
12:09 A hierarchy of failure
A design principle for buildings incorporates components that can control the propagation of failure by isolating parts of the structure as they fail — offering a way to prevent a partial collapse snowballing into complete destruction.
Nature podcast: 15 May 2024
Nature video: Controlled failure: The building designed to limit catastrophe
News and Views: Strategic links save buildings from total collapse
17:57 Programable enzyme for genpme editing
RNA-guided recombinase enzymes have been discovered that herald a new chapter for genome editing — enabling the insertion, inversion or deletion of long DNA sequences at user-specified genome positions.
News and Views: Programmable RNA-guided enzymes for next-generation genome editing
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| 0:35.3 | Hello, Noah Baker here and welcome to The Nature Podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | 2024 is drawing to a close and in this special episode we're going to take a look back at a couple of the papers which have made waves this year. |
| 0:45.8 | And to do so, we are joined by some editors that you may not have heard from much in the past from our news and views team. |
| 0:52.3 | We have Andy Mitchinson. Hello. |
| 0:55.3 | And Abby Klopper. |
| 0:55.7 | Hi. |
| 1:00.5 | To start with, of course, everybody knows what a News and Views is and they read them on a daily basis. |
| 1:04.8 | But just in case the listener doesn't, I would wonder if you could just fill us in quickly by what we mean when we say News and Views. |
| 1:06.4 | And then maybe after that, each of you could introduce yourself and tell us a bit more |
| 1:09.5 | about your focus here at nature. |
| 1:11.5 | Okay, so news and views is a section of nature where we commissioned scientists to describe some of |
| 1:18.2 | the best papers that have just been published in the scientific literature. |
| 1:21.6 | You give people the news and you give people some views. |
| 1:24.1 | That's absolutely right. And the views are really important here. |
| 1:26.8 | The key thing we're |
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