Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers

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NATURE PODCAST 27 February 2026 Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news. By Benjamin Thompson, Nick Petrić Howe & Miryam Naddaf Benjamin Thompson Nick Petrić Howe Miryam Naddaf Subscribe You have full access to this article via your institution. Download the Nature Briefing podcast 27 February 2026In this episode:00:15 How Pokémon inspired fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrityNature: Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped scienceSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.Never miss an episode. Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music or your favourite podcast app. An RSS feed for the Nature Podcast is available too. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00674-x Related Articles Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool AI takes on popular Minecraft game in machine-learning contest The life aquatic: this board game lets you dip into marine ecology Subjects Latest on: Biodiversity Evolution Education Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science News 27 FEB 26 Evidence alone won’t save biodiversity: the golden apple snail reveals an implementation gap Correspondence 24 FEB 26 Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor Article 18 FEB 26 Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science News 27 FEB 26 Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate Article 25 FEB 26 Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade Article 25 FEB 26 Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science News 27 FEB 26 Smartphones are a double-edged tool in classrooms Correspondence 17 FEB 26 ‘I was nearly arrested’: escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad Career Q&A 13 FEB 26