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Designing better semiconductor chips: NP hard problems and forever chemicals
Like any major endeavour, designing and fabricating semiconductor chips requires compromise. As well as trade-offs between cost and performance, designers also consider carbon emissions and other en…
Published on 9 hours ago
Unlocking the potential of 2D materials: graphene and much more
This episode explores the scientific and technological significance of 2D materials such as graphene. My guest is Antonio Rossi, who is a researcher in 2D materials engineering at the Italian Instit…
Published on 1 week ago
Quantum steampunk: we explore the art and science
Earlier this year I met the Massachusetts-based steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum at the Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society. He was exhibiting a beautiful sculpture of a “quantum …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Quantum computing and AI join forces for particle physics
This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast explores how quantum computing and artificial intelligence can be combined to help physicists search for rare interactions in data from an upgraded L…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Astronauts could soon benefit from dissolvable eye insert
Spending time in space has a big impact on the human body and can cause a range of health issues. Many astronauts develop vision problems because microgravity causes body fluids to redistribute towa…
Published on 4 weeks ago
From quantum curiosity to quantum computers: the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circu…
Published on 1 month ago
The curious history of Nobel prizes: from lighthouses to gravitational waves
Next week, the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be revealed. In the run-up to the announcement I’m joined in this podcast by my colleague Matin Durrani, who has surveyed the last qua…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Imagining alien worlds: we explore the science and fiction of exoplanets
In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Many of these exoplanets are very unlike the eight planets of the solar…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Peer review in the age of artificial intelligence
It is Peer Review Week and the theme for 2025 is “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era”. This is not surprising given the rapid rise in the use and capabilities of artificial intelligence. However, …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Juno: the spacecraft that is revolutionizing our understanding of Jupiter
This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Scott Bolton, who is principal investigator on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. Launched in 2011, the mission has delivered important insight…
Published on 2 months ago