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Physics World Stories Podcast

Physics is full of captivating stories, from ongoing endeavours to explain the cosmos to ingenious i

Episodes

Total: 102

When pioneering musicians such as Kraftwerk and Brian Eno began experimenting with synthesizers and

A new film Space, Hope and Charity tells the story of Charity Woodrum, an astrophysicist whose chil

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently made history by selecting John McFall – an amputee, Paraly

Long-term listeners will know that the December episode of Physics World Stories is a celebration o

This month’s episode of the Physics World Stories podcast looks in depth at the science behind the

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is about to kick off in Qatar, with millions of football fans across the pl

Researchers in the United Kingdom are facing an uncertain future, due to a political spat about the

A small alien creature crash lands on Earth before striking up a rapport with a boy. Sound familiar

Everyone knew something big was coming. Students had camped outside CERN’s designated seminar hall

From windows and bottles, to optical fibres and solar cells, glass is an incredibly versatile mater

Science benefits enormously from supercomputing, which enables researchers to process vast amounts

One of longest-running physics jokes is that, despite numerous promising breakthroughs, practical n

From Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” concertos to the Beatles’ “Blackbird” – m

After decades in the making, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched on 25 December

In keeping with our festive tradition, the December episode of Physics World Stories is all about p

The open hardware movement advocates the sharing of designs for material objects. For the global sc

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast astronomers discuss the search for signs of ex

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast you will hear from scientists and software eng

Why lie on a beach when you could go to Chernobyl? In the past few years there has been a steady gr

You could be forgiven for thinking the themes in this month’s episode of Physics World Stories have