<h2>00:46 The gifts that sparked a love of science</h2>Nature&nbsp;put a call out for readers to tell us about memorable presents that first got them interested in science, or mementos of their life in research. These include telescopes, yeast-themed wedding rings, and... cows’ eyes.Nature:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03897-6/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The gift that shaped my career in science</a><h2>08:12 “I am the Very Model of a Miniature Tyrannosaur”</h2>In the first of our annual festive songs celebrating the science of the past year, we tell the story of a diminutive dinosaur that turned out to be its own species.Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03642-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03561-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hotly debated dinosaur is not a tiny T. rex after all</a><h3></h3><h2>11:43 A very scientific quiz</h2>An all-star cast competes for the glory or being the winner of the&nbsp;Nature Podcast’s 2025 festive quiz.Nature:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03642-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species</a>Nature:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02456-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02103-x" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00446-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00776-y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00643-w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03203-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03708-y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magnetic fibres give this robot a soft grip</a>Nature:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01630-x" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03088-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Is this really the world's largest mirror? Researchers put it to the test</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01028-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02436-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Earth’s deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02857-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03060-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apocalypse then: how cataclysms shaped human societies</a>Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03446-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive</a><h2>25:21 “Hard the Hydrogel is Stuck”</h2>Our second festive song is an ode to a rubber duck that was stuck to a rock, thanks to a newly designed, super-adhesive hydrogel.Nature Podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02500-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test</a>Nature Video:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02485-y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why did researchers stick a duck to a rock? To show off their super glue</a><h2>28:42&nbsp;Nature’s 10</h2>Each year,&nbsp;Nature’s 10 highlights some of the people who have helped shape science over the past 12 months. We hear about a few of the people who made the 2025 list, including: a civil servant who stood up for evidence-based public-health policy; the science sleuth who revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universities; and the baby whose life was saved by the first personalized CRISPR therapy.Nature:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03848-1/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nature’s 10</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup" 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. 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