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The eLife Podcast, from eLife, the researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.

In this episode, how kangaroos alter their postures to store more energy in their Achilles tendons and boost movement efficiency, the moths...

This month, compelling evidence for why some species keep their eyes closed for sometimes several weeks after birth, scientists prove that t...

This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some...

In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supp...

What is the impact of an extra year at school on the brain? Also, how poison dart frogs come by their toxins, using movies to track the deve...

This month, how films are helping neuroscientists link brain activity patterns to specific thought processes, a breakthrough in managing opi...

Predicting how influenza viruses will evolve, how deserts decompose matter despite the dry, what worms are revealing about a gene linked to...

This month, signs that cancers communicate with the brain to alter mood, why antibodies are unreliable in research, evidence that social tra...

This month, Chris Smith hears how blood-thirsty bacteria sniff out wounds to trigger infections, how ants navigate at night, how male and fe...

This month, how human encroachment and conflict on nature drives emerging diseases, the role of "stigmergy" in guiding the nest-building fea...

This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieve...

This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, w...

In the eLife Podcast this month, signs that bees are oblivious to pesticides in nectar, sea anemone stinging strategies, a new means of cell...

This month, how an extinct marine mammal made its haemoglobin work in the cold, how does learning compassion change the shape of the human b...

This month join host Dr Chris Smith to hear how a nuclear power station provides the opportunity to test theories of the effects of global w...

This month we look at a method to raise the bar on the quality and trustworthiness of information shared over social media networks, how fis...

This month, the genetic variants inherited from millions of years back that protect from disease but can cause illnesses; also, signs that w...

Why are 90% of humans right handed and where did we get this from; genes for how - and where - hair grows; the intriguing timing behind how...

The ability to recreate dinosaurs inside computers means the true nature of the spinosaurus can now be uncovered, what the Afro Barometer re...

This month, what ultrasound scans are revealing about how primates learn to cry before birth, the new imaging technique highlighting brain s...

This month, what happens to the microbiomes of wild animals when they share cities with humans, how being crushed in a cancer makes metastat...

Signs that some vapes inflame the brain and other organs, how a whiff of CO2 puts mosquitoes into feeding mode, how long, at present rates,...

This month, diabetes and the body clock, the antibodies we raise to Covid-19 vaccines versus infection, dinosaurs armoured like tanks, baboo...

This month, the genes linked to human birth onset, signs hunter gatherers already had a taste for cereals before farming came along, how sun...

This month, the bones missing from Australopithecus sediba's backbone are uncovered, but what do they reveal about this ancient hominid's po...

This month, corals that can resist bleaching, signs that the human immune system went up a gear about 8000 years ago, documenting plant cell...

This month, mobile phones are an excellent proxy to test for Covid-19, stress and hair going grey, signs that junk food inflammes the immune...

This month, male baboons pay a high ageing price for climbing the social ladder, evidence for the reality of the widowhood effect whereby br...

This month: how hummingbirds hum, how elephants evolved anti-cancer genes so they can sustain big bodies, gorillas that grow up without thei...

This month: the first self-blinded study into microdosing psychedelics, using DNA analysis to understand what bacteria is in river water, an...

This month: how a dose of magnesium can improve long-term memory, scientists scrutinise the world's sourdough microbes, and evidence that we...

This month we hear about the animals that turn their dinner into solar panels, the first images of anti-nausea drug molecules engaging with...

This month we hear about an artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough for infertility, how ketamine can mimic some of the decision-making di...

This month on the eLife podcast, artificial intelligence reveals a better test for prostate cancer, is the brain stuffed with neuronal stem...

This month on the eLife Podcast we hear about why whale-watching boats are just too noisy, how oily fish combats heart failure, breakthrough...

This month on the eLife Podcast we look at how sugar takes away the pleasure of consuming and makes you eat more, we find out what lonelines...

This month we explore how genetic plasticity enables sparrows to live alongside us and fish to evolve rapidly to life in caves. We also hear...

This month, why screening at airports for Covid19 is unlikely to work, how flight forced bat viruses to become virulent, MRI scans of throat...

This month, new hearing tests to spot those likely to struggle with speech in noisy environments, how your DNA is at risk from hacking on a...

Have these paralysed patients helped to reveal the brain basis of why we gesticulate when we talk? Also, new insights into how the body cloc...

What accounts for the bomb-proof biology of the tardigrade? How do ants avoid traffic jams? Why thou shalt not abuse statistics in 2020, do...

This month, join Chris Smith to hear how sleep deprivation sends your endocannabinoids skyrocketing and triggers a tendency to binge, how ma...

This month, doctors doing U-turns: the medical practices without much evidence to prop them up, wind-tunnel experiments reveal how geese fly...

This month, the blind monkey that lacks a visual cortex but can still see, the bee-hunting wasps that use a gas cloud to keep harmful fungi...

This month, stunning fossil remains of a beetle that evolved to exploit ants and appeared rapidly after ants became social themselves, how i...

How the brain handles sensations from amputated body parts, evidence that government vaccination campaigns to target measles really work, th...

The shellfish that release insulin into the water to catch fish, brain activity patterns that predict future addictions, how to do gene driv...

Why one in five published papers that use cultured cells may be wrong, the frog that sings underwater without air, genes that make you live...

This month in the eLife Podcast, how scientists got oestrogen signalling all wrong in breast cancer, fungus-farming ants and their microbial...

In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the nerves with a taste for salt, why fur seal pups succumb to hookworms, the oldest fossilised flower...