Nature Middle East Podcast
1) Episode # 33 - Strike
Sedeer El-Showk unpacks workplace skills and discusses with MIT researcher Ahmad Alabdulkareem a skill ecosystem that could help individuals plan better career paths. Sarah Hiddleston looks at a Syria...Show More
2) 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 million record of changing climate and water.
3) Episode # 31 - Science Highlights
A roundup of some of Nature Middle East's most exciting stories and the latest research in the region.
4) 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 diseases.
5) 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.
6) 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 issues at the intersection of science, technology,...Show More
7) Episode # 27 - Best of the month
We look back at some of this month's most exciting stories.
8) Special edition: Space and beyond
In this episode, we talk astronauts, observatories and nationalism in the Arab Middle East.
9) 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 them.
10) 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 natural cycles.