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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Solar cooking, an ultrasound success story, and why some business models just don’t work out

Posted January 16, 2020 • 00:42:02

In this week's podcast, we take a look at solar cookers, hear from an ultrasound start-up and chat about some bad business models

Looking forward to a new decade of physics, listening to graphene-based headphones

Posted January 9, 2020 • 00:41:50

Tune in to the first weekly podcast of the 2020s

Event Horizon Telescope’s Shep Doeleman explains how to image a black hole

Posted December 19, 2019 • 00:30:59

In this week's podcast we marvel at our growing understanding of black holes

Five more of the best physics breakthroughs of 2019

Posted December 12, 2019 • 00:24:56

Physics World editors chat about some of the most exciting physics that we have covered this year

Five of the best physics breakthroughs of 2019

Posted December 5, 2019 • 00:25:00