Podcast Episodes

Non-invasive pressure sensor could revolutionize how brain injuries are diagnosed

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Panicos Kyriacou, who is chief scientist at the UK-based start-up Crainio. The company has developed a non-invasive way of…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

In a wide-rangin…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Global Physics Summit (GPS) in Anaheim California, where I rubbed shoulders with 15,0000 fellow physicists. The best part of being there was chatting wi…

Published on 5 months ago

Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography

When physicists got their first insights into the quantum world more than a century ago, they found it puzzling to say the least. But gradually, and through clever theoretical and experimental work,…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Ileana Silvestre Patallo, a medical physicist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and Ruth McLauchlan, consultant radiotherapy physici…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we explore how computational physics is being used to develop new quantum materials; and we look at how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer.…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Exploring CERN: <em>Physics World</em> visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, online editor Margaret Harris chats about her recent trip to CERN. There, she caught up with physicists working on some of the lab’s most excitin…

Published on 6 months ago

Jim Gates updates his theorist’s bucket list and surveys the damage being done to US science and society

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with the theoretical physicist Jim Gates who is at the University of Maryland and Brown University – both in the US.

He updates…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Quantum superstars gather in Paris for the IYQ 2025 opening ceremony

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – or IYQ.

UNESCO kicked-off IYQ on 4–5 Februa…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

How the changing environment affects solar-panel efficiency: the Indian perspective

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast looks at how climate and environmental change affect the efficiency of solar panels. Our guest is the climate scientist Sushovan Ghosh, who is lead a…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago