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Batteries for electric vehicles, advances in radiotherapy, squid-inspired blankets

09 May 2019 Hamish Johnston

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Anna Demming reports back from an event at the Society of Chemical Industry in London that focused on developing a supply chain in the UK for manufacturing the batteries that will be needed to create fleets of electric vehicles.

Tami Freeman talks about her visit to the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology in Milan, where she discovered what medical physicists think will be the most important issue for training new colleagues ten years from now.

James Dacey is also on hand to explain how the skin of a squid has inspired a new type of space blanket.

  • This was edited 30th May 2019 to correct the name “Society of Chemical Industry”
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