Physics World Stories Podcast

Physics World Stories Podcast


Latest Episodes

The science-fiction legacy of Satyajit Ray
August 16, 2022

Rays eclectic work is a treasure trove for scientists

The Higgs boson discovery revisited
July 04, 2022

Reflecting on that historic day, 10 years later

Fixing our bodies with glass
June 01, 2022

Bioglass can heal our bones while fending off harmful microbes

Cutting the carbon footprint of supercomputing in scientific research
May 04, 2022

More efficient coding and quantifying climate impacts are among the solutions

JET’s record result and the quest for fusion energy
April 04, 2022

Physics World Stories examines the recent breakthrough at the Joint European Torus experiment

Music from our material world
March 08, 2022

From spiderweb harmonies to a viral hit inspired by the COVID-19 spike protein

The James Webb Space Telescope launches astronomy into a new era
January 25, 2022

Now the mission has reached its destination, what lies ahead for the science programme?

Physics books that captured the imagination in 2021
December 22, 2021

Some of the years best popular-science books and a Stephen Hawking quiz

Sharing is caring: open hardware has global impact
November 24, 2021

High-spec microscope is helping malaria diagnosis in Tanzania

Searching for signs of alien technologies
October 20, 2021

Astronomers are looking for the technosignatures of advanced civilizations