Best Computing Made Easy Podcasts (2025)

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Exploring careers in healthcare for physicists and engineers 25:32

3d ago25:32

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In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we explore the career opportunities open to physicists and engineers looking to work within healthcare – as medical physicists or clinical engineers. Physics World’s Tami Freeman is in conversation with two early-career physicists working in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). They are Rachel …

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Richard Bond and George Efstathiou: meet the astrophysicists who are shaping our understanding of the early universe 55:03

10d ago55:03

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features George Efstathiou and Richard Bond, who share the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, “for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Their predictions have been verified by an armada of ground-, balloon- and sp…

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Teaching quantum physics to everyone: pictures offer a new way of understanding 35:27

17d ago35:27

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Quantum science is enjoying a renaissance as nascent quantum computers emerge from the lab and quantum sensors are being used for practical applications. As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of quantum physics. To explore how quantum physics can be taught to the masses,…

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A Martian aurora, how the universe fades away, Heisenberg on holiday, physics of fake coins 42:23

24d ago42:23

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In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I look at what’s new in the world of physics with the help of my colleagues Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani. We begin on Mars, where NASA’s Perseverance Rover has made the first observation of an aurora from the surface of the Red Planet. Next, we look deep into the future of the universe and po…

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Quantum computing for artists, musicians and game designers 32:44

1M ago32:44

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Many creative industries rely on cutting-edge digital technologies, so it is not surprising that this sector could easily become an early adopter of quantum computing. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I am in conversation with James Wootton, who is chief scientific officer at Moth Quantum. Based in the UK and Switzerland, the com…

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Molecular engineering and battery recycling: developing new technologies in quantum, medicine and energy 35:31

1M ago35:31

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast comes from the Chicago metropolitan area – a scientific powerhouse that is home to two US national labs and some of the country’s leading universities. Physics World’s Margaret Harris was there recently and met Nadya Mason. She is dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University…

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Ferenc Krausz explains how ultrashort laser pulses could help detect disease 30:36

1M ago30:36

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz. He is director of the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor at LMU Munich, both in Germany, and CEO and scientific director of the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting in Budapest, Hungary. In a conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman …

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Driving skills and innovation in the UK’s semiconductor industry 33:52

2M ago33:52

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the materials scientist Paul Meredith, who is director of the Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM) at the UK’s Swansea University. In a conversation with Physics World’s Matin Durrani, Meredith talks about the importance of semiconductors in a hi-tech economy and why it is c…

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Radiosurgery made easy: the role of the Gamma Knife in modern radiotherapy 32:14

2M ago32:14

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This podcast features Alonso Gutierrez, who is chief of medical physics at the Miami Cancer Institute in the US. In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman, Gutierrez talks about his experience using Elekta’s Leksell Gamma Knife for radiosurgery in a busy radiotherapy department. This podcast is sponsored by Elekta.…

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Non-invasive pressure sensor could revolutionize how brain injuries are diagnosed 26:28

2M ago26:28

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Panicos Kyriacou, who is chief scientist at the UK-based start-up Crainio. The company has developed a non-invasive way of using light to measure the pressure inside the skull. Knowing this intracranial pressure is crucial when diagnosing traumatic brain injury, which a lea…

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William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics 1:03:22

2M ago1:03:22

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Margaret Harris, Phillips talks about his long-time fascination with quantum physics – which began with an undergrad…

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Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes 32:15

3M ago32:15

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Global Physics Summit (GPS) in Anaheim California, where I rubbed shoulders with 15,0000 fellow physicists. The best part of being there was chatting with lots of different people, and in this podcast I share two of those conversations. First up is Chetan Nayak, who is a senior researcher at Microsoft’s…

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Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography 55:00

3M ago55:00

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When physicists got their first insights into the quantum world more than a century ago, they found it puzzling to say the least. But gradually, and through clever theoretical and experimental work, a consistent quantum theory emerged. Two physicists that who played crucial roles in this evolution were Albert Einstein and John Bell. In this episode…

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Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease 37:49

3M ago37:49

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Ileana Silvestre Patallo, a medical physicist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and Ruth McLauchlan, consultant radiotherapy physicist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman, Patallo and McLauchlan explain how ionizi…

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New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer 35:16

3M ago35:16

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In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we explore how computational physics is being used to develop new quantum materials; and we look at how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer. Our first guest is Bhaskaran Muralidharan, who leads the Computational Nanoelectronics & Quantum Transport Group at the Indian Institute of Technology …

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Exploring CERN: Physics World visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab 28:38

4M ago28:38

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In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, online editor Margaret Harris chats about her recent trip to CERN. There, she caught up with physicists working on some of the lab’s most exciting experiments and heard from CERN’s current and future leaders. Founded in Geneva in 1954, today CERN is most famous for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

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Jim Gates updates his theorist’s bucket list and surveys the damage being done to US science and society 47:06

4M ago47:06

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with the theoretical physicist Jim Gates who is at the University of Maryland and Brown University – both in the US. He updates his theorist’s bucket list, which he first shared with Physics World back in 2014. This is a list of breakthroughs in physics that Gates would like to …

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Exploring careers in healthcare for physicists and engineers 25:32

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Richard Bond and George Efstathiou: meet the astrophysicists who are shaping our understanding of the early universe 55:03

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Teaching quantum physics to everyone: pictures offer a new way of understanding 35:27

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A Martian aurora, how the universe fades away, Heisenberg on holiday, physics of fake coins 42:23

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Quantum computing for artists, musicians and game designers 32:44

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Molecular engineering and battery recycling: developing new technologies in quantum, medicine and energy 35:31

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Ferenc Krausz explains how ultrashort laser pulses could help detect disease 30:36

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Driving skills and innovation in the UK’s semiconductor industry 33:52

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Radiosurgery made easy: the role of the Gamma Knife in modern radiotherapy 32:14

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Non-invasive pressure sensor could revolutionize how brain injuries are diagnosed 26:28

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William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics 1:03:22

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Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes 32:15

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Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography 55:00

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Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease 37:49

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New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer 35:16

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Exploring CERN: Physics World visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab 28:38

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