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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 2 February 2017

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bird beaks show how evolution shifts gear, getting to Proxima b, and have physicists made metallic hydrogen?

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0:00.0

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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

London to Glasgow from just 46 pounds each way.

0:20.5

Avanti West Coast.

0:22.0

Feel good travel.

0:23.8

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0:25.4

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0:26.5

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0:28.7

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.

0:45.3

Coming up, what will it take to launch the first mission to another star system?

0:49.9

Forget about the rockets, the space shuttle, all that stuff.

0:53.3

The craft itself will be tiny.

0:55.1

And a new paper claims to have created the elusive metallic hydrogen, but many physicists remain

1:01.6

skeptical. They can go ahead and try it. If they try it, they're either going to confirm it

1:07.1

or show that it didn't happen. Plus what thousands of bird beaks can teach us about evolution.

1:13.0

This is the Nature podcast for February 2nd, 2017.

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