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Making spaceflight accessible to people with physical disabilities
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently made history by selecting John McFall – an amputee, Paralympic sprinter and medical scientist – among its la…
3 years, 2 months ago
Robin Ince and the joy of popular-science books
Long-term listeners will know that the December episode of Physics World Stories is a celebration of the year’s best popular-science writing. This ye…
3 years, 4 months ago
Quantum technology gathers pace
This month’s episode of the Physics World Stories podcast looks in depth at the science behind the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics and the technologies …
3 years, 5 months ago
Is the 2022 FIFA World Cup really carbon neutral?
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is about to kick off in Qatar, with millions of football fans across the planet set to be gripped by sporting drama. But in t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Trouble on the Horizon for UK-based researchers
Researchers in the United Kingdom are facing an uncertain future, due to a political spat about the UK’s participation in Horizon Europe – Europe’s f…
3 years, 7 months ago
The science-fiction legacy of Satyajit Ray
A small alien creature crash lands on Earth before striking up a rapport with a boy. Sound familiar? Two decades before ET was released, Indian direc…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Higgs boson discovery revisited
Everyone knew something big was coming. Students had camped outside CERN’s designated seminar hall overnight in the hope of grabbing one of the few …
3 years, 9 months ago
Fixing our bodies with glass
From windows and bottles, to optical fibres and solar cells, glass is an incredibly versatile material that underpins many technologies. In the June …
3 years, 10 months ago
Cutting the carbon footprint of supercomputing in scientific research
Science benefits enormously from supercomputing, which enables researchers to process vast amounts of data and conduct complex simulations. But these…
3 years, 11 months ago
JET’s record result and the quest for fusion energy
One of longest-running physics jokes is that, despite numerous promising breakthroughs, practical nuclear fusion will forever be 30 years away. Earli…
4 years ago