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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 18 February 2016

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🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, making shipping greener, AAAS conference highlights and human genes in a Neanderthal.

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.6

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.9

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.9

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.2

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.2

It's on Prime.

0:35.4

This week, the environmental impacts of the monsters of the sea.

0:39.4

At the top end of the scale, we're talking about ships that are around 400 metres long.

0:45.4

And human genes in a Neanderthal genome suggest even earlier interbreeding than previously thought.

0:51.0

An early modern human population met an interpret with the ancestors of

0:56.7

this Neanderthal individual roughly 100,000 years ago. Plus the latest from the annual meeting

1:03.4

of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. This is the Nature podcast for February

1:07.9

18th, 2016. I'm Kerry Smith. And I'm Noah Baker.

1:14.4

The entrance hall of the International Maritime Organisation is like a mini port. All around the

1:20.4

edge of the hall are scale models of ships, four or five foot long versions of the enormous

1:25.4

vessels built to hold thousands of shipping containers

1:28.1

or bulk containers with fuel or grain.

1:31.1

I was at the IMO to meet spokesperson Lee Adamson.

1:34.7

These models are made usually by the ship builder at the time of the ship being built,

1:40.6

and they cost tens of thousands of pounds.

1:44.8

The real things can cost tens or even hundreds of millions.

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