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Dr Robin Timmis from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a practical route to dramatically boosting the intensity of high-power laser light.

Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry have all been recognised for their work reporting the results from the measurement campaigns at Fermilab.

Professor Maria Vincenzi received a New Horizons in Physics Prize at this year's Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Los Angeles, in recognition of her work building and analysing some of the largest supernova datasets in modern cosmology.

New research from Curtin University and the University of Oxford has used a radio telescope that spans the Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes.

Professor Foster's latest book, Einstein: A Life in Science and Music, marries his two passions of particle physics and music and here he reflects on the role music played in Einstein's life.

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.

An international team led by Oxford physicist Dr Dumitru Călugăru has directly identified an 'obstructed atomic band' in a two-dimensional quantum material for the first time, opening new possibilities for understanding and designing quantum materials.

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.

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.