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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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Linking silicon T centres with light offers a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing

Posted June 20, 2024 • 00:31:00

Today’s noisy quantum processors are prone to errors that can quickly knock a quantum calculation off course. As a result, quantum error correction...

The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: meet the 2024 laureates David Charbonneau and Sara Seager

Posted June 13, 2024 • 00:36:23

This episode features a wide-ranging interview with Sara Seager and

Teaching nuclear physics using data rather than models, recovering helium from party balloons

Posted June 6, 2024 • 00:39:06

What is the best way to teach nuclear physics? Is the discipline more difficult than particle physics? What does a nuclear physicist make of the film...

Baltimore bridge collapse: engineers explain how failures can be avoided

Posted May 30, 2024 • 00:45:29

Earlier this year, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US collapsed after being struck by a large container ship. Six people were killed in the disaster...

A passion for building instrumentation, and a hint of dark matter in dwarf galaxies

Posted May 23, 2024 • 00:38:25

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we chat with Lily...