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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Why that massive black-hole merger is important, battling quantum decoherence on two fronts

Posted September 3, 2020 • 00:24:28

Gravitational-wave expert Laura Nuttall is our guest this week

A grasshopper's quantum leap, mentoring medical physicists, synchrotron is extremely brilliant

Posted August 27, 2020 • 00:38:31

Making the connection between Bell’s theorem and a hopping insect

Why LHCb is so good at discovering tetraquarks, medical sensors that are drawn on the skin

Posted August 20, 2020 • 00:34:17

We also chat about how to prevent the coffee-ring effect

The funny and sinister sides of machine learning, how to make nanoparticles by the tonne

Posted August 13, 2020 • 00:42:42

An artificial-intelligence blogger and a nanotech entrepreneur are our guests this week

Creating new technologies using 2D materials, supernova wreaked havoc on Earth, quantum go versus AI

Posted August 6, 2020 • 00:32:34

Deji Akinwande and Logan Chipkin are our guests this week