Nature.

In a experiment, I don't know yet.

Why is Blight so far?

Like, it sounds so simple.

They had no idea.

But now the data's people.

I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.

Nature. Nature.

Nature.

Hello and welcome to the Nature podcast.

This week, brain waves are making a splash and mapping the landscape of childhood cancers.

Plus, physicists find a fingerprint from the early universe.

This is the nature podcast for the 1st of March 2018.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Charmany Bundell.

First up, astronomers have found evidence of the universe's first stars from a period known

as the cosmic dawn. And the signal isn't quite what they expected. Here's Lizzie Gibney

with more. For the first few hundred million years of its existence, the universe was a dark place.

Only once electrons and protons had formed atoms of hydrogen, and hydrogen had clumped together,

could the first stars begin to shine.

So how can we study this long ago era?

Using a telescope to detect the very faint light from those first stars

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