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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Protecting self-driving cars from cosmic rays, size limits for wind farms

Posted July 29, 2021 • 00:44:12

This podcast also looks at the latest discovery in twistronics

The physics of Olympic sports, searching for continuous gravitational waves

Posted July 22, 2021 • 00:48:32

In this podcast we try out an Olympics-inspired quiz and talk to three astrophysicists who are searching for continuous gravitational waves

Talking about Hawking, Brazil’s new synchrotron light source

Posted July 15, 2021 • 00:40:22

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Metallic foams for face masks, why the UK needs an X-ray free electron laser

Posted July 8, 2021 • 00:49:46

An ion clock in space, a vanishing pacemaker and a LEGO microscope are also discussed

Physics tracks changes in English dialects, machine learning confused by COVID-19

Posted July 1, 2021 • 00:39:09

This podcast also looks back on an exciting week in astronomy