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A new international study has strengthened evidence that the expansion of the universe is still accelerating, addressing recent claims that had called one of modern cosmology's most important discoveries into question.

Research led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai along with Professor Emeritus Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford, questions the widely accepted argument that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating.

Physicists at Oxford have developed a new approach in the search for a 'quantum spin liquid', a long-sought state of quantum matter resembling a magnetic liquid whose quantum properties mean it never freezes.

Oxford physicist Professor Shivaji Sondhi FRS has been elected to two distinguished American learned societies: the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Physics outreach programme, the Comprehensive Oxford Mathematics and Physics Online School (COMPOS), has been highly commended in the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2026.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has closed a £260 million Series C funding round — the largest ever raised by a quantum computing company in Europe.

Researchers generate cat-like superpositions built from highly nonclassical quantum components.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our Solar System may be magnetic.

Industry and research partners joined doctoral students and supervisors in Oxford for a day of talks, panel discussions and networking as part of the Superconductivity CDT Residential Week 2026.

Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson has donated £250,000 to fund the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy.

Dr Shruti Nath has been appointed Research Lead at the community-driven African research institute, AfriClimate AI. This partnership brings together expertise in AI weather forecasting, climate science, and operational meteorology.

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