Physics World Weekly Podcast

307 - Linking silicon T centres with light offers a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing

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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288 - Graphene-based materials show great promise for hydrogen transport and storage

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287 - MRI keeps proton beam therapy on target, new technique tracks bacteria motion

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286 - Start-up is sending its quantum magnetometer into space

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285 - The Magellanic Clouds: astronomers make the case for a name change

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284 - Award-winning technology allows a paralysed person to walk, new journal focuses on sustainability

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283 - Company uses quantum optics to generate sequences of truly random numbers

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282 - Paul Howarth: how we can get politicians to engage with nuclear power

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281 - Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2023: we explore this year’s best physics research

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280 - Why Alice & Bob are making cat qubits, IOP calls for action on net-zero target

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279 - Biomedical ethicist calls for rules governing human research in commercial spaceflight

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278 - New telecoms satellites will degrade our view of the cosmos

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277 - New director looks to the future of the UK’s national labs

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276 - Celebrating the physics of the cosmos and 20 years of JCAP

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275 - Pioneering the physics of adaptation, writing the history of quantum computing

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274 - Quantum algorithms make clever use of noisy hardware

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273 - Fusion industry has ambitious plans for 2035, rounding out this year’s Nobel prizes

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271 - Scanning the seabed with lasers could inform the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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268 - Quantum-safe cryptography: why we need it now

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