100 episodes

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 you enjoy what you hear, then also check out our monthly podcast Physics World Stories, which takes a more in-depth look at a specific theme.

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    • 4.1 • 57 Ratings

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 you enjoy what you hear, then also check out our monthly podcast Physics World Stories, which takes a more in-depth look at a specific theme.

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

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

    Instrumentation scientist Lily Ellis-Gibbings and astrophysicist Alex McDaniel are our guests

    • 38 min
    Celebrating attosecond science, physics tournament focuses on fun

    Celebrating attosecond science, physics tournament focuses on fun

    We chat about ultrashort pulses and ultrasharp students in this podcast

    • 39 min
    Artificial intelligence: developing useful tools that scientists can trust

    Artificial intelligence: developing useful tools that scientists can trust

    Computer scientist Rick Stevens is our podcast guest

    • 26 min
    Social media: making it work for physics-related businesses

    Social media: making it work for physics-related businesses

    Our podcasts guests are Alex Peroff and Neil Spinner of Pine Research

    • 41 min
    Environmental sustainability: exploring the challenges for the medical physics community

    Environmental sustainability: exploring the challenges for the medical physics community

    Kari Tanderup and Rob Chuter explain how the profession is reducing its carbon footprint

    • 31 min
    Purpose-Led Publishing: Antonia Seymour outlines the role of not-for-profit publishers

    Purpose-Led Publishing: Antonia Seymour outlines the role of not-for-profit publishers

    We also explore what makes a good science podcast with a student of science communication

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5
57 Ratings

57 Ratings

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Love the podcast. Great information. Rock solid topics of discussion

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Audio quality is everything to a podcast

While the information is good, one would think that a physics podcast would pay attention more to the audio quality to convey the message. There are many times that critical information is garbled.

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Audio

Audio very poor quality

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