Physics World Weekly Podcast
Physics World
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 takes a more in-depth look at a specific theme.
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311 - Zap Energy targets fusion power without magnets, Claudia de Rham on the beauty of gravityThu, 25 Jul 2024 - 0h
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310 - Diamond dust for MRI, 4D printing creates advanced devicesFri, 19 Jul 2024 - 0h
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309 - Precision medicine: meet two medical physicists who are making it possibleThu, 11 Jul 2024 - 0h
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308 - Shrinivas Kulkarni: 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy winner talks about his fascination with variable and transient objectsThu, 27 Jun 2024 - 0h
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307 - Linking silicon T centres with light offers a route to fault-tolerant quantum computingThu, 20 Jun 2024 - 0h
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306 - The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: meet the 2024 laureates David Charbonneau and Sara SeagerThu, 13 Jun 2024 - 0h
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305 - Teaching nuclear physics using data rather than models, recovering helium from party balloonsThu, 06 Jun 2024 - 0h
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304 - Baltimore bridge collapse: engineers explain how failures can be avoidedThu, 30 May 2024 - 0h
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303 - A passion for building instrumentation, and a hint of dark matter in dwarf galaxiesThu, 23 May 2024 - 0h
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302 - Celebrating attosecond science, physics tournament focuses on funThu, 16 May 2024 - 0h
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301 - Artificial intelligence: developing useful tools that scientists can trustThu, 09 May 2024 - 0h
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300 - Social media: making it work for physics-related businessesThu, 02 May 2024 - 0h
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299 - Environmental sustainability: exploring the challenges for the medical physics communityThu, 25 Apr 2024 - 0h
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298 - Purpose-Led Publishing: Antonia Seymour outlines the role of not-for-profit publishersThu, 18 Apr 2024 - 0h
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297 - Statistical physics provides powerful insights into the living worldThu, 11 Apr 2024 - 0h
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296 - Science centres inspire scientific literacy and diversity in STEMThu, 04 Apr 2024 - 0h
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295 - Superfluid helium: the quantum curiosity behind huge experiments like the LHCThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 0h
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294 - Frugal approach to computer modelling can reduce carbon emissionsThu, 21 Mar 2024 - 0h
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293 - Keith Burnett: IOP president says it is our duty to make physics more inclusiveFri, 15 Mar 2024 - 0h
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292 - Tackling climate change while improving human wellbeingThu, 07 Mar 2024 - 0h
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291 - Radiology societies call for critical evaluation of AI, building the UK’s quantum workforceThu, 29 Feb 2024 - 0h
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290 - Looking to the future of US particle physics: P5 member Abigail Vieregg is our guestThu, 22 Feb 2024 - 0h
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289 - Bionic jellyfish and more efficient windfarms: a conversation with John DabiriThu, 15 Feb 2024 - 0h
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288 - Graphene-based materials show great promise for hydrogen transport and storageThu, 08 Feb 2024 - 0h
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287 - MRI keeps proton beam therapy on target, new technique tracks bacteria motionThu, 01 Feb 2024 - 0h
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286 - Start-up is sending its quantum magnetometer into spaceThu, 25 Jan 2024 - 0h
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285 - The Magellanic Clouds: astronomers make the case for a name changeThu, 18 Jan 2024 - 0h
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284 - Award-winning technology allows a paralysed person to walk, new journal focuses on sustainabilityFri, 12 Jan 2024 - 0h
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283 - Company uses quantum optics to generate sequences of truly random numbersThu, 04 Jan 2024 - 0h
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282 - Paul Howarth: how we can get politicians to engage with nuclear powerThu, 14 Dec 2023 - 0h
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281 - Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2023: we explore this year’s best physics researchThu, 07 Dec 2023 - 0h
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280 - Why Alice & Bob are making cat qubits, IOP calls for action on net-zero targetThu, 30 Nov 2023 - 0h
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279 - Biomedical ethicist calls for rules governing human research in commercial spaceflightThu, 23 Nov 2023 - 0h
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278 - New telecoms satellites will degrade our view of the cosmosThu, 16 Nov 2023 - 0h
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277 - New director looks to the future of the UK’s national labsThu, 09 Nov 2023 - 0h
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276 - Celebrating the physics of the cosmos and 20 years of JCAPThu, 02 Nov 2023 - 0h
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275 - Pioneering the physics of adaptation, writing the history of quantum computingThu, 26 Oct 2023 - 0h
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274 - Quantum algorithms make clever use of noisy hardwareThu, 19 Oct 2023 - 0h
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273 - Fusion industry has ambitious plans for 2035, rounding out this year’s Nobel prizesThu, 12 Oct 2023 - 0h
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272 - Attosecond pulses and quantum dots: exploring the physics behind this year’s Nobel prizesThu, 05 Oct 2023 - 0h
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271 - Scanning the seabed with lasers could inform the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceThu, 28 Sep 2023 - 0h
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270 - Astrophysicist uses X-rays to explore the universe, heat pumps could prevent potholesThu, 21 Sep 2023 - 0h
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269 - Challenging the space industry’s attitudes towards diversity, the ‘wild boar paradox’ explainedThu, 14 Sep 2023 - 0h
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268 - Quantum-safe cryptography: why we need it nowThu, 07 Sep 2023 - 0h
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267 - Mathematics makes sense of the modern worldThu, 31 Aug 2023 - 0h
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266 - Metasurfaces simplify optical sensing systemsThu, 24 Aug 2023 - 0h
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265 - LK-99: meet a materials scientist who put the room-temperature superconductivity claim to the testThu, 17 Aug 2023 - 0h
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264 - Body-based units of measurement offer advantages over standardized systems, speaking of OppenheimerThu, 10 Aug 2023 - 0h
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263 - Award-winning company uses quantum sensors to develop a lightweight, wearable brain scannerThu, 03 Aug 2023 - 0h
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262 - Quantum science and technology thrives when industry and governments join forcesThu, 27 Jul 2023 - 0h
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