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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

Physics in 2018

2018/1/23

Fortunately for scientific soothsayers, some developments in 2018 are entirely predictable, not lea

Book of the Year 2017

2017/12/13

Here at Physics World, we love talking about popular-science books. Indeed, we enjoy it so much tha

To say the past couple of years have been a whirlwind for scientists engaged in gravitational-wave

Illuminating a radio icon

2017/10/10

2017 marks a couple of important anniversaries for the astrophysics community at Jodrell Bank. Firs

“Writing the book has made me question my own feelings about the world,” says Saini. The engineer-t

In his quest to find out what makes good science comedy, Glester meets performers at the Green Man

Featured in the podcast is UK recording artist Hannah Peel, along with a track from her 2016 album

Today, in our “post-truth” era, these sorts of statements have become commonplace. A ty

Scientists are aware that many different animals appear sensitive to the Earth’s magnetic field lin

Just 40 light-years from Earth, TRAPPIST-1 is relatively small compared with the size of our Sun, w

As recently reported on this website, the app can be used with virtual reality (VR) headsets, enabl

The proposal comes from a group of researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK, who say they

Book of the Year 2016

2016/12/14

We love talking about great physics books. In fact, we could go on about them for hours. The sparkl

Doing physics by ear

2016/11/24

When not pondering the underlying principles of the physics universe, Sajjad is also a strong advoc

Fang and Weng were named in the Physics World Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2015 for their work on Weyl f

Still not even wrong

2016/9/23

Disillusioned by the charms of string theory, he began writing a book detailing the history and the

Robert Grosseteste was born sometime around the year 1170. By the time he died in 1253, he had gain

The collection is the largest and most diverse early repository of Native Californian music and spe

Out of this world cuisine

2016/6/28

g-ASTRONOMY is a collaboration between the Imperial College London astrophysicist Roberto Trotta an

The neutrino was first proposed in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli to explain a mysterious deficit of energy