The Nature salary and satisfaction survey reveals researchers' outlook, and NASA’s test of planetary defences.
**In this episode:**
00:45 Salary and satisfaction survey
Like all aspects of life, scientific careers have been impacted by the pandemic. To get an insight into how researchers are feeling, Nature has conducted a salary and satisfaction survey. We hear from some of the respondents.
*Careers Feature: *Stagnating salaries present hurdles to career satisfaction)
09:07 Research Highlights
The physics of a finger snap, and the surprisingly strong silk of jumping spiders.
*Research Highlight: *It’s a snap: the friction-based physics behind a common gesture)
*Research Highlight: *High-speed spinning yields some of the toughest spider silk ever found)
11:23 Briefing Chat
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, the plans to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, and how baby formula is changing to better resemble breast milk.
*Nature News: *NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in first planetary-defence test)
*Chemistry World: *The science of breast milk and baby formula)
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