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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Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2023: we explore this year’s best physics research

Posted December 7, 2023 • 00:35:25

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features a lively discussion about our

Why Alice & Bob are making cat qubits, IOP calls for action on net-zero target

Posted November 30, 2023 • 00:37:11

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast looks at two very different and very difficult challenges — how to build a quantum computer...

Celebrating the physics of the cosmos and 20 years of JCAP

Posted November 2, 2023 • 00:28:55

Some of the biggest mysteries of physics – including the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and the origin of the universe – are in the sights...

Attosecond pulses and quantum dots: exploring the physics behind this year’s Nobel prizes

Posted October 5, 2023 • 00:40:39

It has been a very exciting week in the world of physics. The winners of the

Body-based units of measurement offer advantages over standardized systems, speaking of Oppenheimer

Posted August 10, 2023 • 00:38:50

For millennia, humans have used units of measurement based on aspects of the human body. Familiar examples include the fathom (arm span) and the qubit...