October 3, 2025
MP3 FILE / 101 MINUTES / 252 MB
FQxI's Essay Competition Asks How Quantum is Life? Plus Plant Intelligence, Physicists Surveyed on Controversial Opinions & Should Journals Pay Peer Reviewers?
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How Quantum is Life? And the Roots of Plant Intelligence
MP3 FILE / 45 MINUTES / 118 MB
Quantum physicist Catalina Curceanu talks tips for the FQxI essay competition on quantum biology, and discusses her research on biophotons, and how they may allow plants to communicate
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A Copenhagen Survey of Physicists' Opinions
MP3 FILE / 45 MINUTES / 118 MB
Cosmologists Niayesh Afshordi & Alice Chen return for Part 2 of their chat about their survey of what physicists really think about the big bang, black holes, dark matter, quantum gravity, quantum theory, the multiverse and fine tuning
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Experimenting with Peer Review: Paying Reviewers and Using AI for Reviews
MP3 FILE / 45 MINUTES / 118 MB
The science journals Critical Care Medicine and Biology Open and the science platform Research Hub have been testing how paying reviewers affects the science publishing process. Research Hub has also been using AI reviewers. Reporter Geoff Marsh found out more.
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