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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 might span anything from quantum physics and astronomy through to materials science, environmental research and policy, and biomedical science and technology. Find out more about the stories in this podcast by visiting the Physics World website. If

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49:06

Nobel predictions, national firsts and the remarkable...

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2026/10/01

We chat about the Nobel Prize in Physics in this podcast

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31:57

Pathways to commercial and academic success in...

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2026/09/24

Nick Zacharopoulos, CEO of Aktina Medical, is our podcast guest

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22:59

Creating better batteries for electricity grids

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2026/09/17

The applied scientist Lin Ma is our podcast guest

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22:20

Porous material offers the benefits of graphene in 3D

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2026/09/10

Marco Caffio, the co-founder of iGii, is our podcast guest

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41:00

Gamma Knife radiosurgery brings precision treatment...

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2026/08/27

This podcast features Katharine Hunt of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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35:10

The Quantum Kid: childhood curiosity makes physics...

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2026/08/20

Our podcast guest makes science videos for young people

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47:13

Motivation is key to the public’s trust in science,...

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2026/08/14

Social scientists Shumaila Bhatti and Dara Wald are our podcast guests

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35:20

Building bridges between quantum and classical computing

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2026/08/06

Yonatan Cohen of Quantum Machines is our podcast guest

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35:31

How scholarly publishers are safeguarding trust in...

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2026/07/30

Antonia Seymour of IOP Publishing is our podcast guest

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40:08

Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could...

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2026/07/23

This podcast also explores the intersection of general relativity and quantum information

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38:25

Large physics models boost the performance of...

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2026/07/16

Aerodynamics expert David Wheater is our podcast guest

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19:31

Static electricity: mysteries lurk within this...

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2026/07/09

Soft-matter expert Scott Waitukaitis is our podcast guest

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29:24

Independent linac commissioning matters for radiotherapy

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2026/06/25

Our podcast guest is James Giltz of One Physics

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48:23

Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley share the 2026...

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2026/06/18

Pair are honoured for their work on supernovae and nucleosynthesis

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30:05

‘Galactic archaeologists’ share the 2026 Kavli Prize...

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2026/06/11

Laureate Amina Helmi and Per Barth Lilje of the prize committee are our guests

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30:18

Inside EPSRC: Charlotte Deane on funding the future...

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2026/06/04

The executive chair of the UK funding agency is our podcast guest

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25:37

Open data: the benefits and challenges of sharing a...

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2026/05/28

Laura Feetham-Walker of IOP Publishing is our podcast guest

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37:47

Thermodynamic computing: noise as a resource, not an...

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2026/05/21

Noise is the enemy of many computing paradigms. Conventional computers are power hungry because they must operate at energy levels well above those of electronic fluctuations in silicon. The problem is much more acute in quantum computing, where noise is a significant barrier to creating practical processors.But what if we could use noise as a computational resource? That is the idea behind thermodynamic computing – which is the focus of this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast. My guest

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36:05

Paul Howarth: IOP president highlights the need to...

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2026/05/14

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Paul Howarth, who became president of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in February.The IOP is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland. Representing 21,000 members, it supports physicists at all stages of their careers and seeks to make physics accessible to people from all backgrounds. With a PhD in nuclear physics, Howarth has had a long career in the nuclear sector working on the

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32:49

Near-oxymoronic requirements: the materials...

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2026/05/07

Nuclear fusion powers the Sun, and scientists and engineers have long been trying to harness the process to generate clean energy. While much progress has been made, the commercially-viable generation of fusion energy remains elusive.One important challenge is developing a range of specialized materials that can contain an extremely hot, radiation-emitting plasma in close proximity to ultracold superconducting magnets. Our guest this week is Jacob John of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, who

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