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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How to time quantum tunnelling using atomic stopwatches, fitness trackers could help with breathing disorders

Posted July 30, 2020 • 00:41:04

Huge exoplanets and quantum dots also get a mention in this week’s podcast

A flat-Earth fight, an inconsistent Hubble constant, and carbon atoms at a graphene 'watering hole'

Posted July 23, 2020 • 00:44:36

Debates over the shape of the Earth and the rate of the universe's expansion have a very different feel

How a longhorn beetle could help keep you cool, the pros and cons of online conferences

Posted July 16, 2020 • 00:28:18

This week we chat about an insect-inspired reflector and a virtual meeting of medical physicists

David Leckrone on his 33 years with the Hubble Space Telescope mission, Twitter poster conference takes off

Posted July 9, 2020 • 00:50:53

How NASA corrected Hubble’s spherical aberration and other triumphs

The emotions of discovery, the quantum TV thriller Devs, nanosponges take on COVID-19

Posted July 2, 2020 • 00:48:05

We chat about Eureka moments and how quantum mechanics is portrayed on screen