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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 27 April 2017

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, the earliest Americans, 2D magnets, and the legacy of the Universe’s first ‘baby picture’.

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0:00.0

You might want to step back from your speaker or remove your headphones.

0:04.1

Yes! I can't. I just can't believe it.

0:08.2

Marks found out his 11.4 million pounds on Lotto.

0:12.2

This is just... I don't...

0:14.5

You know what? I've got tears in my eyes.

0:19.9

Yep, that's 11.4 million.

0:22.8

Lotto, will you be the next Christmas millionaire?

0:26.2

The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply.

0:28.5

Players must be 18 or over.

0:34.1

This week, the space mission that changed how we see the universe.

0:37.9

So I said to my new boss, well, you know, my thesis project didn't work, but we should try it in outer space.

0:42.8

And physicists cast doubt on a 50-year-old theorem about magnetism.

0:47.6

This is a very famous theorem that we would regard that as a law, right?

0:52.5

So which you cannot break.

0:53.8

Plus hints of the first humans in America.

0:56.5

This is the nature podcast for April the 27th, 2017.

1:00.3

I'm Kerry Smith.

1:01.3

And I'm Adam Levy. Immigration is a hot topic in America right now, and no, not just because of Donald Trump.

1:18.8

The archaeological community is interested in when the very first humans migrated into America.

1:25.0

Various bits of evidence point to Homo sapiens moving east from Siberia,

1:29.3

into Alaska and down into the rest of America around 14,000 or 15,000 years ago.

1:35.3

There are claims of archaeological or genetic evidence for even older movements of people,

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