Emerging medical technologies, pentaquarks and borrowing heat from the Earth


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Mar 28 2019 37 mins   105
In the latest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Hamish Johnston is talking about the new pentaquark – an exotic hadron comprising five quarks – that’s been discovered by physicists working on the LHCb experiment at CERN. Later in the show, Anna Demming discusses her highlights from the recent event at the UK House of Parliament called “What next for digital healthcare technologies?” You can hear interviews with a number of guests including Paul Drayson, the former Labour politician and current chief executive officer of Sensyne Health. To close the podcast, James Dacey presents clips from his recent interview with Neil Lawson, a geoengineer involved in designing ground-source heat pumps. They discuss the underlying principles of these systems and the current outlook for the technology in the UK. If you enjoy what you hear you can subscribe via Apple podcasts, or your chosen podcast app.