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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Physics on the silver screen, fictional and real wormholes, a new parlour game

Posted November 14, 2019 • 00:41:59

Lively chat about the long and fruitful relationship between physicists and moviemakers

Fusion propulsion for interstellar travel, why ice is slippery, fireworks lit the fuse on science funding

Posted November 7, 2019 • 00:29:22

This week's podcast features a former television star who is a fusion entrepreneur

Kites that generate electricity, physics of spattered blood, origin of heavy elements

Posted October 31, 2019 • 00:39:23

We meet a physicist who wants to deliver green energy using kites, and more

Open-access publishing: challenges and opportunities

Posted October 24, 2019 • 00:40:13

This week's podcast celebrates International Open Access Week

Celebrating exoplanets, dogs in space, emotional geography for physicists

Posted October 17, 2019 • 00:41:55

Our weekly podcast ponders the chemical composition of distant planets