Physics World Stories Podcast

Physics is full of captivating stories, from ongoing endeavours to explain the cosmos to ingenious innovations that shape the world around us. In the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester talks to the people behind some of the most intriguing and

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Autonomous cars: potential lifesavers but with new risks

Posted August 26, 2020 • 00:43:24

Studies suggest that human error is responsible for over 90% of the 1.25 million people who die each year globally due to car accidents. Therefore,...

Planet Nine: is it a planet, a primordial black hole, or something else entirely?

Posted July 17, 2020 • 00:42:24

Planet Nine is a hypothetical world in the far reaches of our solar system. Proposed in...

Working in medical physics: not your average career

Posted June 30, 2020 • 00:41:10

For certain fields of physics, it can be tough to explain how the research has a direct benefit to society. That is never the case with medical physics...

The mystery of missing marine plastic

Posted May 27, 2020 • 00:33:53

In the May 2020 issue of Physics World, science journalist Marric Stevens wrote about the problem of the

Doing physics in the time of COVID-19

Posted April 28, 2020 • 00:43:16

Across the world, personal and professional lives have been profoundly affected during the past few months – and scientists are no exception. In this...