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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Exploring the science behind the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics, travelling 13,000 km to become a medical physicist

Posted October 7, 2021 • 00:41:00

In this podcast we speak to a spin-glass expert, a climate physicist and a medical physicist in training

Tackling the big questions in physics with Jim Al-Khalili, how a physicist worked out why dinosaurs went extinct

Posted September 30, 2021 • 00:39:15

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I chat with the physicist, author and broadcaster

How the US keeps its nuclear secrets and what it reveals, double anonymous peer review boosts inclusion

Posted September 23, 2021 • 00:40:22

In this podcast we meet a historian of nuclear weapons and a scholarly publishing expert

Probing the origins of the universe, using plasmonic tweezers to manipulate tiny objects

Posted September 16, 2021 • 00:45:13

In this podcast we meet a nanophotonics expert and a cosmologist

Pondering cosmic mysteries with Paul Davies, tandem solar cells could soon be on your roof

Posted September 9, 2021 • 00:52:34

In this podcast the conversation runs from quantum fundamentals to the practicalities to powering the future