Physics World Weekly Podcast

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

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Precision medicine: meet two medical physicists who are making it possible

Posted July 11, 2024 • 00:49:23

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast explores how medical physicists are using exciting new technologies to make precision medicine...

Shrinivas Kulkarni: 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy winner talks about his fascination with variable and transient objects

Posted June 27, 2024 • 00:49:48

This episode features an in-depth conversation with Shrinivas Kulkarni, who won...

Linking silicon T centres with light offers a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing

Posted June 20, 2024 • 00:31:00

Today’s noisy quantum processors are prone to errors that can quickly knock a quantum calculation off course. As a result, quantum error correction...

The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: meet the 2024 laureates David Charbonneau and Sara Seager

Posted June 13, 2024 • 00:36:23

This episode features a wide-ranging interview with Sara Seager and

Teaching nuclear physics using data rather than models, recovering helium from party balloons

Posted June 6, 2024 • 00:39:06

What is the best way to teach nuclear physics? Is the discipline more difficult than particle physics? What does a nuclear physicist make of the film...