In this episode:<h2>0:46 Borrowing tricks from cancer could help improve immunotherapy</h2>T cell based immunotherapies have revolutionised the treatment of certain types of cancer. However these therapies — which involved taking someone’s own T cells and reprogramming them to kill cancer cells — have struggled to treat solid tumours, which put up multiple defences. To overcome these, a team has taken mutations found in cancer cells that help them thrive and put them into therapeutic T cells. Their results show these powered-up cells are more efficient at targeting solid tumours, but don’t turn cancerous themselves.Research article: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07018-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Garcia et al.</a><h2>11:39 Research Highlights</h2>How researchers solved a submerged-sprinkler problem named after Richard Feynman, and what climate change is doing to high-altitude environmental records in Switzerland.Research Highlight: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00246-x" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The mystery of Feynman’s sprinkler is solved at last</a>Research Highlight: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00244-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A glacier’s ‘memory’ is fading because of climate change</a><h2>14:28 What might the car batteries of the future look like?</h2>As electric cars become ever more popular around the world, manufacturers are looking to improve the batteries that power them. While conventional lithium-ion batteries have dominated the electric vehicle market for decades, researchers are developing alternatives that have better performance and safety — we run though some of these options and discuss their pros and cons.News Feature: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00325-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The new car batteries that could power the electric vehicle revolution</a><h2>25:32 Briefing Chat</h2>How a baby’s-eye view of the world helps an AI learn language, and how the recovery of sea otter populations in California slowed rates of coastal erosion.Nature News:<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00288-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes</a>News: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00217-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How do otters protect salt marshes from erosion? Shellfishly</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup?utm_source=podcast-organic&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=briefing-signup&utm_content=shownotes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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