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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 9 February 2017

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, free-floating DNA in cancers, an ancient relative of molluscs and can the Arctic’s ice be regrown?

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0:00.0

Yes! I just can't believe it.

0:02.4

This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.

0:05.2

Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.

0:07.0

The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply.

0:08.8

Players must be 18 or over.

0:15.3

Coming up, how a slug-like fossil is shedding light on the mollusk family tree.

0:19.8

So it sort of ends this paleontological mystery.

0:22.3

And the Arctic is melting.

0:25.1

But is that the end of the story, Fayette's ice?

0:28.1

If we were able to reduce the temperatures, then the ice would come back.

0:32.3

Plus how free-floating DNA could impact how cancers evolve.

0:36.4

This is the Nature podcast for February 9th, 2017.

0:39.7

I'm Kerry Smith.

0:40.9

And I'm Adam Levy.

0:44.8

The Arctic is losing its sea ice and fast.

0:52.6

The ice has thinned and retreated,

0:54.7

leaving behind just a quarter of what was there only 30 years ago.

0:58.7

Adam takes a look at why that matters

1:00.3

and whether one day we might be able to grow it back.

1:06.5

Researcher Dirk Notts has a very personal relationship

1:10.0

with the ice at the top of the world.

1:13.8

I think as a kid I was just fascinated by anything adventurous.

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