FQxI Podcast

FQxI May 13, 2026 Podcast Episode 13.05.2026 ↓

Is Life Quantum? Meeting the Winners of FQxI's US$53,000 Competition. And Did the Evolution of Human Cognition Require Gravitational Waves?

FQxI December 31, 2025 Podcast Episode 31.12.2025 ↓

The Year in Physics Review 2025

FQxI October 31, 2025 Podcast Episode 31.10.2025 ↓

Poltergeist and Primordial Black Holes: Cosmologist Bernard Carr on Physics and the Paranormal

FQxI October 3, 2025 Podcast Episode 03.10.2025 ↓

FQxI's Essay Competition Asks How Quantum is Life? Plus Plant Intelligence, Physicists Surveyed on Controversial Opinions & Should Journals Pay Peer Reviewers?

FQxI June 1, 2025 Podcast Episode 01.06.2025 ↓

Dark Energy Bombshell? Cosmic Results from DESI and ACT & Rethinking Gatekeeping in Science Publishing

FQxI February 18, 2025 Podcast Episode 18.02.2025 ↓

The Origin of Life, Assembly Theory & the Problems with Peer Review

FQxI December 31, 2024 Podcast Episode 31.12.2024 ↓

The Year in Physics Review 2024

FQxI February 17, 2024 Podcast Episode 17.02.2024 ↓

The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch

FQxI December 31, 2023 Podcast Episode 31.12.2023 ↓

The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 3

FQxI December 29, 2023 Podcast Episode 29.12.2023 ↓

The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 2

FQxI December 28, 2023 Podcast Episode 28.12.2023 ↓

The Year in Physics Review 2023: Part 1

FQxI December 24, 2023 Podcast Episode 24.12.2023 ↓

Is there a Theory of Everything? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 6

FQxI April 7, 2023 Podcast Episode 07.04.2023 ↓

What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5

FQxI April 3, 2023 Podcast Episode 03.04.2023 ↓

Does Objective Reality Exist? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 4

FQxI March 25, 2023 Podcast Episode 25.03.2023 ↓

Is There a Multiverse? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 3

FQxI March 17, 2023 Podcast Episode 17.03.2023 ↓

Is Our Universe Fine-Tuned For Life? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 2

FQxI March 16, 2023 Podcast Episode 16.03.2023 ↓

Is Science Becoming Less Disruptive?

FQxI March 8, 2023 Podcast Episode 08.03.2023 ↓

Is Time an Illusion? Great Mysteries in Physics Part 1

FQxI December 31, 2022 Podcast Episode 31.12.2022 ↓

The Year in Physics Review Part 3: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.

FQxI December 30, 2022 Podcast Episode 30.12.2022 ↓

The Year in Physics Review Part 2: Continuing our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.

FQxI December 28, 2022 Podcast Episode 28.12.2022 ↓

The Year in Physics Review Part 1: Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. We start with a discussion about whether a wormhole really was created in a quantum computer, in the lab?

FQxI August 20, 2022 Podcast Episode 20.08.2022 ↓

Testing Time: Quantum physicists Fabrizio Piacentini and Laura Knoll discuss their recent experiment testing the predictions of Constructor Theory, a new meta-framework of physics that may encompass all other theories. The new framework could solve the mystery of why time marches in only one direction, even though the microscopic laws of physics are reversible. With Logan Chipkin

FQxI June 30, 2022 Podcast Episode 30.06.2022 ↓

Happy Higgs-versary! Particle physicist Kevin Black tells Zeeya Merali about the LHC's new quest. Also, time-travel at the LHC, an update on the W Boson tests with Frank Wilczek; Catalina Curceanu on testing the origin of consciousness; & Queensland physicists are building quantum clocks.

FQxI June 27, 2022 Podcast Episode 27.06.2022 ↓

The End of Everything: Astrophysicist Katie Mack on her book describing ways to destroy the universe, & on hints of new physics at the LHC; a quantum engine that heats & cools simultaneously; how the thermodynamic gradient may have driven the evolution of intelligence through culture; & the UK's physics of life network.

FQxI June 21, 2022 Podcast Episode 21.06.2022 ↓

'Quantum dots' can teach us about thermodynamics in the nanorealm.