Nature Middle East Podcast
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Nature Middle East Podcast
Nature Middle East is a one-stop ganglion for those interested in research and science news in the region. It’s published by Nature Research, part of Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading global research publishers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode # 33 - Strike
Sedeer El-Showk unpacks workplace skills and discusses with MIT researcher Ahmad Alabdulkareem a skill ecosystem that could help individuals plan bett...
Episode # 32 - First spark
Who sparked the first flame? In this episode, we look at the latest study linking Neanderthals to starting fires, and separately, at Africa’s two mill...
Episode # 31 - Science Highlights
A roundup of some of Nature Middle East's most exciting stories and the latest research in the region.
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Episode #30 - The history inside our genomes
We chat with a top Arab scientist about how she scrutinizes ancient human genomes to reconstruct history and sift the evidence for a catalogue of dise...
Episode # 29 - The stories bones tell
A single human finger bone fossil and some animal remains give insights ancient into Arabia and puts the peninsula on the human evolution map.
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Episode # 28 - Hybrid Creatures
Straddling fantasy and reality, art and science, the Arab films at this year's Imagine Science film festival of Abu Dhabi continue to meditate on the...
Episode # 27 - Best of the month
We look back at some of this month's most exciting stories.
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Special edition: Space and beyond
In this episode, we talk astronauts, observatories and nationalism in the Arab Middle East.
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Special Edition: Mangrove warriors
In this episode, we look at coastal mangroves – trees and shrubs that trap carbon and are highly adapted to salt water – and the people protecting the...
Episode # 26 - Loss of night
In this episode, we talk about how artificial city lights and rapidly increasing sky glow are robbing us of night time and disturbing the Earth's natu...
Episode # 25 - Ancient African DNA
This new study gives us a glimpse into how sub-Saharan Africans lived and moved across the continent some 8,000 years ago.
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Episode # 24 - Willing to die
The militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and those who fight against it have something in common: they're both willing t...
Episode # 23 - Remote Reefs
How scientists are using satellites to track connections and communication between Red Sea reefs -- some of the most complex marine ecosystems on the...
Episode # 22 - Space Archaeology Special
Nature Middle East interviews renowned space archaeologist Sarah Parcak.
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Episode # 21 - Underwater fairy circles
Nature Middle East talks to one of the scientists behind a new research into underwater "fairy circles" found in meadows of sea grass; these can provi...
Episode # 20 - House of Wisdom
Two stories from our blog: the origins of domestic cats and the peculiar mudding behavior of Egyptian vultures.
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Episode #19 - Pumping drugs
Nature Middle East talks to the scientists behind a new 'hybrid' drug system that can, one day, control epilepsy, among other brain disorders.
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Episode # 18 - The oldest humans on Earth
A discovery, a hundred kilometres west of Marakkech, holds the secrets of how our oldest ancestors lived.
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Episode # 16 - Ancient Secrets
Nature Middle East takes a look at the many secrets of ancient Egypt that archaeology has unlocked recently, from insights into pharaonic funerary and...
Episode # 15 - Underwater cancer therapy
Inspired by the chemical dynamic resulting from volcanic eruptions in deep oceans, scientists get creative clustering nano particles - with great pote...
Episode # 14 - Iron Age Arabia
Ancient Arabia is under-excavated, and archaeologists know little about the peninsula's iron era. Nature Middle East talks to two scientists who're tr...
Episode # 13 - Keeping up with droughts
In Jordan, engineers are mapping droughts for better management and to predict future episodes in a country that is famously water scarce. Listen to k...