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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Recent Episodes

COP26 special: extreme heat, cloud mysteries and climate tipping points

Posted October 28, 2021 • 00:47:55

First episode in a two-part series on climate science and solutions

Donna Strickland on her life-changing Nobel prize, previewing #BlackInPhysics week, nuclear fusion in stars

Posted October 21, 2021 • 00:30:02

In this episode we also chat about how to avoid professional burnout

Why nuclear should be part of our net-zero-carbon future, green jobs for physicists, proton arc therapy

Posted October 14, 2021 • 00:34:42

This podcast looks at how physicists can create a greener world and an emerging cancer treatment

Exploring the science behind the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics, travelling 13,000 km to become a medical physicist

Posted October 7, 2021 • 00:41:00

In this podcast we speak to a spin-glass expert, a climate physicist and a medical physicist in training

Tackling the big questions in physics with Jim Al-Khalili, how a physicist worked out why dinosaurs went extinct

Posted September 30, 2021 • 00:39:15

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I chat with the physicist, author and broadcaster