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Physics World Weekly Podcast

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…

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Gamma Knife radiosurgery brings precision treatment to benign brain conditions

This podcast features Katharine Hunt of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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The Quantum Kid: childhood curiosity makes physics more accessible

Our podcast guest makes science videos for young people

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Motivation is key to the public’s trust in science, study reveals

Social scientists Shumaila Bhatti and Dara Wald are our podcast guests

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Building bridges between quantum and classical computing

Yonatan Cohen of Quantum Machines is our podcast guest

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How scholarly publishers are safeguarding trust in science

Antonia Seymour of IOP Publishing is our podcast guest

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Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics

This podcast also explores the intersection of general relativity and quantum information

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Large physics models boost the performance of passenger cars

Aerodynamics expert David Wheater is our podcast guest

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Static electricity: mysteries lurk within this everyday phenomenon

Soft-matter expert Scott Waitukaitis is our podcast guest

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Independent linac commissioning matters for radiotherapy

Our podcast guest is James Giltz of One Physics

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Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley share the 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Pair are honoured for their work on supernovae and nucleosynthesis

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‘Galactic archaeologists’ share the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Laureate Amina Helmi and Per Barth Lilje of the prize committee are our guests

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Inside EPSRC: Charlotte Deane on funding the future of UK physics

The executive chair of the UK funding agency is our podcast guest

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