This week, the effects of extreme weather on our ability to grow food.

If you aggregate all of it together, it's quite a lot of agricultural production that we're losing.

And 80 years ago, physicists predicted hydrogen could be a metal. Have they now created it?

So what we have found is a new phase of hydrogen

that appears to be sort of the onset to this very elusive, long-sought-after metallic phase.

Plus, what you can look forward to in science this year.

This is the Nature Podcast for January 7th, 2016.

Happy New Year. I'm Adam Levy. And I'm Kerry Smith.

As always, at the beginning of the show, first show of the new year, 2016, brave reporter,

Lizzie Gibney is here to try and predict what's going to happen. Hi, Lizzie. I'm here with my

crystal ball. Excellent. Glad you brought it with you. Now,

you also brought it with you last year, we should say, and we thought it might be fun to just look

at 2015's predictions and just see how right you were so that we know how much to trust you

in your upcoming predictions for 2016. Oh dear. I'm not sure how good my record's going to be,

but let's see. Well, you know, it was a whole year ago that we did this.

But your predictions for 2015 were as follows, dwarf planet hunt.

Now, we did visit series.

Yes, we visited series.

We now know what its bright spot is made of.

And also we went to Pluto and got some absolutely stunning pictures from that. But I guess that was maybe a little bit of an

easier prediction, wasn't it? It was on NASA's calendar for quite some time. They do plan their

schedules pretty far ahead. Now, you also predicted, and again, this is a little bit of a cheat,

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