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Bradley Harsant

Meet...Bradley Harsant

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 July 2022
Professor Vlatko Vedral

Meet...Vlatko Vedral

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 July 2022
From left to right: Alan Walker, Ian Shipsey, Peter Higgs, Daniela Bortoletto

Higgs@10

Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, particle physicists at CERN announced they had independently observed a new particle: the Higgs boson. Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role since.
4 July 2022
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption

Physicists monitor 'unique' submarine volcano eruption

A multi-institutional international team of researchers combined extensive satellite data with ground-level observations to show that the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was unique
30 June 2022
Visit to Culham

Alumni donors visit national fusion lab

Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire.
23 June 2022
Professor Amalia Coldea

Commentary: Professor Coldea on the quantum world of iron-based superconductors

Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.
23 June 2022
Professor Alex Schekochihin

Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.
20 June 2022
Oxford's Modular InfraRed Molecules and Ices Sensor (MIRMIS)

Commentary: Professor Neil Bowles on Comet Interceptor

As the European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor mission moves from design phase to implementation, Professor Neil Bowles gives an insight into what it’s like to be part of an ambitious, global initiative.
9 June 2022
Comet Interceptor

Comet chaser mission one step closer to launch

A new European Space Agency science mission, proposed by the UK, to 3D-map a comet for the first time has reached a major milestone, moving from the design phase to implementation.
8 June 2022
Professor Laura Herz

Professor Herz recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award.
7 June 2022
Katja Klobas

Meet...Katja Klobas

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 June 2022
Professor Robert Taylor

Meet...Robert Taylor

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 June 2022
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