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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Marie Curie film struggles to portray the miracle of discovery, revealing the answers to our physics trivia quiz

Posted April 16, 2020 • 00:46:46

We also chat about using fluorescent tattoo ink in radiation therapy

Creating a carbon neutral world, a linac simulator for training medical physicists, avoiding blackouts in a solar super-storm

Posted April 9, 2020 • 00:42:40

In this episode we chat with science journalist Kate Ravilious and medical physicist Marco Carlone

Remembering Philip Anderson, meeting an extragalactic astronomer who advises the government

Posted April 2, 2020 • 00:40:51

In this episode we also chat about physicists who have done silly things

Doing physics in the pandemic, plasmas for food and agriculture, top career tips from leading physicists

Posted March 26, 2020 • 00:32:49

We chat about using plasmas to treat animal waste and coping with COVID-19 isolation

Physics joins the fight against the coronavirus, philosophical differences of physics and chemistry, escape to an exotic exoplanet

Posted March 19, 2020 • 00:41:41

This week’s podcast is a homemade affair