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Your host, Sebastian Hassinger, interviews brilliant research scientists, software developers, engineers and others actively exploring the possibilities of our new quantum era. We will cover topics in quantum computing, networking and sensing, focusing on hardware, algorithms and general theory. The show aims for accessibility - Sebastian is not a physicist - and we'll try to provide context for the terminology and glimpses at the fascinating history of this new field as it evolves in real time.
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Learn about everyday wonders of science and technology! Wydea Wonders animated videos explain topics ranging from computer networking and digital music to airplanes and engines in an easy-to-understand, interesting way. For more information and additional content please visit www.wydea.com.
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Steven Harris describes technology affecting us today and tomorrow as well as problems and preparedness for what comes next. Mr. Harris especially looks at what other do not and that is disruptive technology and future disruptive or evolution events that fundamentally make a technology or infrastructure make a giant leap forward. Historic Examples would be Gutenberg, Bessemer, Fleming, Bell Labs and many more. Podcasts are always thorough and detailed and generally a nice long format. Harris ...
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Get your weekly burst of scientific illumination from The Debrief’s network of rebellious journalists as they warp through the latest breaking science and tech news from the world of tomorrow. Every Tuesday, join hosts Stephanie Gerk, Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, and MJ Banias as they roundup the latest science and tech stories from the pages of The Debrief. From far-future technology to space travel to strange physics that alters our perception of the universe, The Debrief Weekly Report is mea ...
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The STEMCAST is a semi-monthly podcast released on Mondays. It is hosted by us, Jess and Elisabeth. We talk about anything, and everything, affecting us on our journey through engineering! We also offer terrible advice to students, scientists, researchers, (etc.) and pretty much anyone that asks about school.
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The Prime Minister has confirmed controversial plans to roll out digital IDs, which will be available on people’s phones by the end of this Parliament. We speak to cybersecurity expert Alex Laurie, SVP at Ping Identity, about what the scheme means for personal data and online safety. Meanwhile, conservationists warn Britain is “shockingly underprep…
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Pierre Desjardins is the cofounder of C12, a Paris-based quantum computing hardware startup that specializes in carbon nanotube-based spin qubits. Notably, Pierre founded the company alongside his twin brother, Mathieu, making them the only twin-led deep-tech startups that we know of! Pierre’s journey is unconventional—he is a rare founder in quant…
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How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics (Princeton UP, 2025) reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the…
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By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Vanessa Warne demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind peo…
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Rachelle speaks to YouTuber Brandon B on the importance of the creator economy to the UK. A new cross-party forum to support the creator economy has been unveiled at the YouTube festival. This will act as a bridge between creators and Westminster. According to an impact report carried out by Oxford Economics, YouTube content creators contributed £2…
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We live in an age of increasing complexity--an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to destroy the world they helped build. Automation and digitization promise prosperity for some…
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An AI tool that’s already helped the UK government claw back almost half a billion pounds in fraud is set to be rolled out worldwide. The Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator identifies loopholes in policy to prevent them being exploited by fraudsters. Meanwhile, scientists have confirmed the Silverpit Crater off the coast of Yorkshire was formed by a…
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Health secretary Wes Streeting is urging pregnant women to ignore Donald Trump’s claims about a link between paracetamol and autism, calling them ‘dangerous’ and 'without evidence'. The comments have sparked outrage among scientists and campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic. To explain why paracetamol remains the NHS’s first-line choice for pai…
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Humanity's relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling question: What if there are objects in space that are so large and heavy that not even light can escape them? Almost 250 years later, in April 2019, scientists presented the first picture of a black hole. Profoundly inspi…
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It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era p…
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Flights at Heathrow have been disrupted by a major cyber attack. We speak to ESET’s Global Cybersecurity Advisor Jake Moore about the issues that took the boarding tech offline, throwing the airport into chaos. Also in this episode: Donald Trump says the Murdochs could be part of US team to stop TikTok being banned in the US. A Lib Dem proposal to …
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Dr. Eli Levenson-Falk joins Sebastian Hassinger, host of The New Quantum Era to discuss his group’s recent advances in quantum measurement and control, focusing on a new protocol that enables measurements more sensitive than the Ramsey limit. Published in Nature Communications in April 2025, this work demonstrates a coherence stabilized technique t…
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We caught up with George before the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to find out how data and technology shape his preparation and his split-second decisions on the track. Microsoft have revealed their newest AI datacentre in the US and say it’s the world’s most powerful. MI6 is launching a new dark web portal called Silent Courier to attract new recruits. Al…
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Google’s VP of Search, Robby Stein, joins us for an in-depth look at the future of search. Having first joined Google in 2007, Stein has since led teams at Instagram and Artifact, co-founded Yahoo-acquired startup Stamped, and returned last year to oversee Google Search. He’s now driving the company’s generative AI products, designed to help people…
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Britain and the US have struck a tech deal that could bring billions of pounds of investment to the UK. The “tech prosperity deal”, announced as Mr Trump arrived in the UK on Tuesday night, will see the UK and US cooperate in areas including artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear power. It comes alongside £31 billion of investment i…
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Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle – or perhaps the soya – that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, in 50 Plants that Changed the World (Bodleian…
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This is a cut-down preview of Brave New World, hosted Evgeny Lebedev. Evgeny is joined by Jim Poole, chairman, president and chief executive of Solace Life Sciences. They explore the evolution of the human brain, anxiety and how to deregulate the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped part of the brain that plays a central role, which Jim says ‘feeds on …
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Taking recent spectacular progress in AI fully into account, Mark Seligman's AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature (Anthem Press, 2025) explores prospects for artificial literary translation and composition, with frequent reference to the hyperconscious literary art of Vladimir Nabokov. The exploration balances reader-friend…
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In a post on X, Elon Musk has branded Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey a “craven coward”. Sir Ed accused the American billionaire of “inciting violence” with his appearance at the Unite the Kingdom protest on Saturday. And he called for the Tesla owner to be sanctioned over the remarks he made. The UK and the US have agreed a deal to boost the building …
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Assistant Professor Mohammad Mirhosseini (Caltech EE/APh) explains how his group built a mechanical quantum memory that stores microwave-photon quantum states far longer than typical superconducting qubits, and why that matters for hybrid quantum architectures. The discussion covers microwave photons, phonons, optomechanics, coherence versus lifeti…
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From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City’s ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the…
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In the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that argues code is "a universal force--swirling through disciplines, absorbing ideas, and connecting worlds" (Linda Liukas). In the digital world, code is the essential primary building block, the equivalent of the cell or DNA in the biol…
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This is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams for our green future. Should we make those dreams reality, or are they actually nightmares? For the rest of the episodes, visit the series page, and subscribe today (Apple, Spotify, RSS). In the 1970s,…
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Mice using mini steering wheels are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain makes decisions. Research from the International Brain Laboratory shows decision-making isn’t confined to just a handful of brain regions as once thought, it’s actually distributed much more widely. Suze Cooper spoke to Professor Alexandre Pouget from the University o…
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Inspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. Dedicated to anti-feminism, these communities have orchestrated online campaigns of misogynistic harassment, with some individuals going as far as committing violent terrorist attacks. Although the Manosphere has become a focus point of …
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After fifty years of debate, Dr Geraint Pratten from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham tells us how their research on recorded gravitational waves has confirmed Stephen Hawking’s most famous black hole theory. A drug for a rare disease that causes sudden vision loss is now available on the NHS. Jaguar Land Rover co…
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We run through Apple’s latest offerings, such as their thinnest iPhone ever, the iPhone 17 line-up and AirPod upgrades with Tech Editor, Alex Pell. Will we ever see a foldable phone? And why was the lack of AI announcements surprising? Patients with suspected dementia are taking part in a nationwide trial of a promising new blood test for Alzheimer…
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Nepal’s prime minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned as deadly anti-government protests against a social media ban and political corruption escalate. Microsoft have launched an ambient clinical AI assistant for the NHS. Apple have a brand new iPhone on the way… Also in this episode: -Have scientists found an atmosphere around an Earth-like exoplanet? …
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