Physics World Weekly Podcast

Physics World Weekly Podcast


Latest Episodes

Achieving success in research collaborations, celebrating the UN International Year of Glass
January 27, 2022

This podcast looks at glass in physics and how to create a research dream team

How the Web went global after arriving in Silicon Valley from CERN
January 20, 2022

In this podcast we talk about how physicists and entrepreneurs changed the world

The science and scientists of Don’t Look Up, low-cost optical technique is improving healthcare
January 13, 2022

In this podcast we chat about photoplethysmography and a controversial Hollywood film

Exploring Pluto’s changing atmosphere by chasing its shadow on Earth
January 06, 2022

In this podcast we meet two siblings who have devoted their careers to studying the dwarf planet

Meet the winners of the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year award
December 16, 2021

In this podcast we talk about the prizewinning entanglement of macroscopic drumheads

Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2021: a lively round-up of the year’s best physics results
December 09, 2021

In this podcast we chat about our eclectic shortlist

Cutting through the quantum hype, why the Stark effect should be renamed
December 02, 2021

We talk about the “German Physics” movement of the 1930s and the quantum-computing industry

Materials science conserves 500-year-old warship, new gravitational-wave discoveries by LIGO–Virgo
November 25, 2021

In this podcast we chat with the chief executive of the Mary Rose Trust and LIGO–Virgo physicists at Cardiff University

Clever aerodynamics makes owls silent hunters, why 2025 should be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
November 18, 2021

In this podcast we also chat about multiscale X-ray imaging and Pauli blocking

Quantum start-up targets single photons, perovskite pioneers bag Rank Prize
November 11, 2021

In this podcast we meet the chief executive of Nu Quantum and two award-winning researchers