Physics World Weekly Podcast

Updated: 02 Oct 2025 • 204 episodes
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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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In this podcast we also make predictions for this year’s physics award

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Keith Cooper chats about has new book in this podcast

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Global survey of reviewers reveals a growing polarization about the use of AI

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PI Scott Bolton talks about the mission’s discoveries and endurance in this podcast

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This podcast explains what happens when 66,000 research papers are used as training data  

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This podcast explores a career in science writing and broadcasting

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