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Type Ia supernova visible as a blue dot at the centre of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image

New study confirms universe's expansion is still accelerating

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.
11 June 2026
Artist's impression of a Type Ia supernova (based on observations of SN2014J).

Analysis of supernova data questions evidence for cosmic acceleration

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.
11 June 2026
Witness spins above and below the quantum spin liquid interact by propagation of spinons within it.

Quantum spin liquid elementary particles witnessed for the first time at Oxford

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.
10 June 2026
Professor Shivaji Sondhi

Professor Sondhi elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Sciences and Letters

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.
10 June 2026
COMPOS team

Physics programme highly commended in VC Awards 2026

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

OQC raises £260 million in largest European quantum funding round

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.
9 June 2026
Oana Bazavan and Sebastian Saner

Oxford physicists create new family of Schrödinger's cat states

Researchers generate cat-like superpositions built from highly nonclassical quantum components.
3 June 2026
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal

Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets

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.
2 June 2026
Partners Day for the Oxford Superconductivity CDT

Superconductivity CDT Partners’ Day strengthens links with industry

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.
2 June 2026
Keith Tyson in front of painting artwork.

Keith Tyson supports prestigious professorship

Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson has donated £250,000 to fund the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy.
2 June 2026
AfriClimate AI logo with image of african continent overlaid by leaves. Text below title reads 'AI for a climate-resilient Africa'

AI-led weather forecasting systems for Africa

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.
1 June 2026
James Matthews in blue collared shirt smiling

Meet...James Matthews

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
1 June 2026
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