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Physics World Weekly Podcast

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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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Physics World

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Latest episode

Oct 15, 2026

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Episodes

Driving skills and innovation in the UK’s semiconductor industry 24.04.2025

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

This podcast is sponsored by Elekta

Non-invasive pressure sensor could revolutionize how brain injuries are diagnosed 10.04.2025

 Panicos Kyriacou of UK-based Crainio is our podcast guest

William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics 04.04.2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

The theoretical physicist and media personality is our podcast guest

Quantum superstars gather in Paris for the IYQ 2025 opening ceremony 13.02.2025

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

Climate scientist Sushovan Ghosh is our podcast guest

Mark Thomson looks to the future of CERN and particle physics 30.01.2025

CERN’s next director-general is our podcast guest

Why electrochemistry lies at the heart of modern technology 23.01.2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How the UK Metamaterials Network supports scientific and commercial innovation 05.12.2024

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

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

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

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

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