Physics World Weekly Podcast

Driving skills and innovation in the UK’s semiconductor industry 24.04.2025 33:52 ↓

This podcast features the director of Swansea’s Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials

Radiosurgery made easy: the role of the Gamma Knife in modern radiotherapy 17.04.2025 32:14 ↓

This podcast is sponsored by Elekta

Non-invasive pressure sensor could revolutionize how brain injuries are diagnosed 10.04.2025 26:28 ↓

 Panicos Kyriacou of UK-based Crainio is our podcast guest

William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics 04.04.2025 1:03:22 ↓

Laser-cooling expert looks to the future of quantum technologies

Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes 27.03.2025 32:15 ↓

Manu jumping and Majorana zero modes feature in this podcast

Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography 20.03.2025 55:00 ↓

Our podcast guest is the theoretical crypto-physicist Artur Ekert

Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease 13.03.2025 37:49 ↓

Our podcast guests are NPL’s Ileana Silvestre Patallo and Ruth McLauchlan of the NHS

New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer 06.03.2025 35:16 ↓

NPL’s Daniel Sarno and IIT Bombay’s Bhaskaran Muralidharan are our guests

Exploring CERN: Physics World visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab 27.02.2025 28:38 ↓

Margaret Harris reports back about LHC upgrades, antimatter advances and future colliders

Jim Gates updates his theorist’s bucket list and surveys the damage being done to US science and society 20.02.2025 47:06 ↓

The theoretical physicist and media personality is our podcast guest

Quantum superstars gather in Paris for the IYQ 2025 opening ceremony 13.02.2025 27:23 ↓

In this podcast Physics World’s Matin Durrani describes the gala event

How the changing environment affects solar-panel efficiency: the Indian perspective 06.02.2025 26:16 ↓

Climate scientist Sushovan Ghosh is our podcast guest

Mark Thomson looks to the future of CERN and particle physics 30.01.2025 38:50 ↓

CERN’s next director-general is our podcast guest

Why electrochemistry lies at the heart of modern technology 23.01.2025 35:17 ↓

Our podcast guest is Colm O’Dwyer, president of the Electrochemical Society

Ceryx Medical: company uses bioelectronics to coordinate the heart and lungs 16.01.2025 41:33 ↓

Biomedical engineer Stuart Plant and physicist Ashok Chauhan are our podcast guests    

Humanitarian engineering can improve cancer treatment in low- and middle-income countries 09.01.2025 48:08 ↓

The medical physicists Eric Ford and Afua Yorke are our podcast guests

International Year of Quantum Science and Technology: our celebrations begin with a look at quantum networks and sensors 02.01.2025 37:06 ↓

This podcast features quantum physicist Mete Atatüre of the University of Cambridge

The physics of ice cream: food scientist Douglas Goff talks about this remarkable material 26.12.2024 40:39 ↓

Our podcast guest is a leading expert on frozen desserts

Mikhail Lukin and Dolev Bluvstein explain how they used trapped atoms to create 48 logical qubits 19.12.2024 39:18 ↓

Meet two winners of the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year

Hartmut Neven talks about Google Quantum AI’s breakthrough in quantum error correction 19.12.2024 32:50 ↓

Meet a winner of the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year

Exploring this year’s best physics research in our Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2024 12.12.2024 28:24 ↓

Lively chat about antimatter, medical physics, quantum computing, lasers and more

How the UK Metamaterials Network supports scientific and commercial innovation 05.12.2024 27:54 ↓

Network leads Alastair Hibbins and Claire Dancer are our podcast guests

Astronomers can play an important role in explaining the causes and consequences of climate change, says astrophysicist 28.11.2024 36:44 ↓

This podcast also looks at the connections between clouds and global warming

Top tips for physics outreach from a prize winner, making graphene more sustainable 21.11.2024 34:53 ↓

This podcast features an advanced-materials expert and a prizewinning science communicator

Space travel: the health effects of space radiation and building a lunar GPS 14.11.2024 53:53 ↓

We chat to a radiation oncologist and two atomic-clock experts