Physics World Weekly Podcast

Latest Episodes
Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes
Manu jumping and Majorana zero modes feature in this podcast
Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography
Our podcast guest is the theoretical crypto-physicist Artur Ekert
Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease
Our podcast guests are NPLs Ileana Silvestre Patallo and Ruth McLauchlan of the NHS
New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer
NPLs Daniel Sarno and IIT Bombays Bhaskaran Muralidharan are our guests
Exploring CERN: Physics World visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab
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
The theoretical physicist and media personality is our podcast guest
Quantum superstars gather in Paris for the IYQ 2025 opening ceremony
In this podcast Physics Worlds Matin Durrani describes the gala event
How the changing environment affects solar-panel efficiency: the Indian perspective
Climate scientist Sushovan Ghosh is our podcast guest
Mark Thomson looks to the future of CERN and particle physics
CERNs next director-general is our podcast guest
Helgoland: leading physicists to gather on the tiny island where quantum mechanics was born
100 years since Heisenberg made his mythical trip, a select group of quantum researchers will retrace his footsteps