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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Striving for diversity and inclusion in engineering, 100 years of ferroelectrics

Posted November 12, 2020 • 00:32:50

We also survey the state of the UK’s quantum industry in this week’s podcast

Making water on the Moon, radiotherapy for COVID-19, gear-changing particle colliders

Posted November 5, 2020 • 00:31:39

Lunar expert Hannah Sargeant is our guest this week

Celebrating Black physicists

Posted October 29, 2020 • 00:36:28

Two of the co-organizers of #BlackInPhysics week, Ashley Walker and Xandria Quichocho, talk about their journeys into physics and some of the barriers...

Room-temperature superconductor arrives at last, a dark-matter detector mystery

Posted October 22, 2020 • 00:36:22

Superconductor expert Ranga Dias and particle theorist Jayden Newstead are our guests this week

Pathways to scalable quantum technologies

Posted October 15, 2020 • 00:41:26

Jelena Vučković and Michelle Simmons talk about their careers and drive to create practical quantum devices