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Professor Brian Foster reflects on the life of Albert Einstein life and musical activities.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Rsearchers from the Department of Physics were involved with the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.

Oxford physicists have recreated the turbulence of Earth's atmosphere in a spinning laboratory tank, uncovering a new link between energy distribution and fluid density that could improve weather forecasting and understanding of other planets' climates

Dr Pablo Bilbao has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma.

Dr Joseph Bateman, a DPhil alumnus of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Medical Physics Group PhD Prize for his thesis on detector development for FLASH radiotherapy dosimetry.

In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Emeritus Professor Tim Palmer FRS considers quantum mechanics (QM) from a different perspective.

A high-profile UK delegation visited the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) specifically to engage with the Oxford-led SAPPHIRE project.

Professor Stephen Blundell reflects on the life and legacy of Nobel prize winner Sir Anthony Leggett who died on 8 March 2026.

The University of Oxford is a founding partner in an international consortium that will build the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) in Namibia.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.