Nature

Audio long read: Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype

Download the June 2026 long read podcast. Peptides — short chains of amino acids — have become huge online. The popularity of ...

Can scientists learn cells' language? Researchers aim to decode cellular conversations

Multicellular life depends on remarkable acts of cooperation. Every cell in the human body must sense what is happening ...
Scientific American

A scientist deciphered zebra finches’ vocabulary—and used it to talk back to them

Julie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress ...

How audiobooks can help your child with summer reading

Children are encouraged to read 15 to 30 minutes a day, but during the summer, that may get lost. A local nonprofit said ...

Would You Let A.I. Michael Caine Read You the ‘Odyssey’?

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets ...

AI Version of Michael Caine Narrates 'The Odyssey' Audiobook

A few weeks ahead of the debut of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," a new, entirely AI-generated audiobook version of ...

This week in science: Exoplanetary salt clouds, ancient families and laughter's origin

Hosts from NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about an exoplanet with pink, salty clouds, the surprising social structure of ancient human relatives and the origins of laughter.