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Nature Podcast

Backchat: January 2017

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Moonshots, frameworks, catapults – how best to name your science project? Plus, the implications for science of Trump’s first days in office, and the perils of trying to reproduce others’ work.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:11.1

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it, you're there.

0:16.7

Travel by train from London to Liverpool from just 25 pounds.

0:21.9

Avanti West Coast.

0:23.2

Feel good travel.

0:25.4

Exclusions and limitations apply.

0:28.0

Full terms and conditions can be founded at avantiwestcoastcoast.com. U.K. forward slash plan.

0:30.1

Yes! I just can't believe!

0:32.5

This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.

0:35.3

Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.

0:37.1

The National Lottery.

0:38.0

Rules and procedures apply.

0:38.9

Players must be 18 or over.

0:42.3

Hello and welcome back to Backchat.

0:44.7

If the Nature podcast is a bucket of alternative facts, then Backchat is an accusation of fake news.

0:50.6

I've assembled three of the best fact hunters from nature to chat this month about what's on their minds.

0:56.2

This month coming up, is your project a moonshot, a framework, a roadmap, or a pipe dream?

1:01.3

We'll be opening up Trump's Cabinet of Curiosities and stay tuned to hear what happened when scientists tried to replicate five very high-profile cancer papers.

1:10.7

I'm Kerry Smith and my three guests are

1:12.7

here in London, Richard Van Alden. Hello, I'm a news editor in the UK. And Heidi Ledford.

1:18.9

Hi, I'm a biomedical reporter now in the UK as well. And in Washington, D.C. Lauren Morello.

1:24.5

Hi, I am the US news editor and I have been editing a lot of stories about Donald

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