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

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 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.

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.

An international team of astronomers have used data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) to make the largest, most accurate 3D map yet of the light emitted by excited hydrogen in the early universe.

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, TeamName, came out on top at this year’s UK and Ireland Preliminaries of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS.

As the Vera C Rubin Observatory issues its first live alerts of changes detected in the night sky, a UK innovation, Lasair, is allowing us to observe millions of astronomical events as they unfold.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a new way to make high-performance perovskite solar cells entirely without solvents.