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Physics World Weekly Podcast
Physics World Weekly offers a unique insight into the latest news, breakthroughs and innovations from the global scientific community. Our award-winning journalists reveal what has captured their imaginations about the stories in the news this week, which might span anything from quantum physics and astronomy through to materials science, environmental research and policy, and biomedical science and technology. Find out more about the stories in this podcast by visiting the Physics World website. If you enjoy what you hear, then also check out our monthly podcast Physics World Stories, which t...
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Episodes
Inside ATLAS: Sara Alderweireldt explains how the CERN experiment homes in on new physics 10.07.2025 19:06
This podcast also looks at the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider
Making science careers more accessible to people with disabilities 03.07.2025 32:33
This podcast features Francesca Doddato, co-author of “Towards a fully inclusive environment for disabled people in STEMM”
Reversible computing could help solve AI’s looming energy crisis 26.06.2025 27:03
Hannah Earley of Vaire Computing is our podcast guest
Helgoland: leading scientists reflect on 100 years of quantum physics and look to the future 19.06.2025 37:07
This podcast comes from the birthplace of modern quantum mechanics
Exploring careers in healthcare for physicists and engineers 12.06.2025 25:32
Meet two early-career medical physicists in this podcast
Richard Bond and George Efstathiou: meet the astrophysicists who are shaping our understanding of the early universe 05.06.2025 55:03
Our podcast guests are the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy winners
Teaching quantum physics to everyone: pictures offer a new way of understanding 29.05.2025 35:27
We talk about a new way of describing quantum mechanics
A Martian aurora, how the universe fades away, Heisenberg on holiday, physics of fake coins 22.05.2025 42:23
Physics World editors talk about what’s new in physics
Quantum computing for artists, musicians and game designers 15.05.2025 32:44
James Wootton of Moth Quantum is our podcast guest
Molecular engineering and battery recycling: developing new technologies in quantum, medicine and energy 08.05.2025 35:31
Our podcast guests are Nadya Mason and Jeffrey Spangenberger
Ferenc Krausz explains how ultrashort laser pulses could help detect disease 01.05.2025 30:36
Nobel laureate also talks about science education for children displaced by war
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
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