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Professor Moritz Riede from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is one of 13 Green Future Fellows to receive landmark funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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As we near the end of the International Year of Quantum, we ask experimental physicist William Cutler to break it down for us...what exactly is quantum computing?

The brand new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies has welcomed its first 16-strong cohort.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have led a breakthrough study which has recorded the first observation of carbon-neutrino interactions; the findings open new frontiers in nuclear and particle physics.

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

Researchers from the University of Oxford have played a major role in one of the most precise studies yet of the Higgs boson — the mysterious particle that helps explain why everything in the universe has mass.

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away.

An international collaboration, including Professor Stephen Smartt FRS MRIA, has been recognised with an Into Change Award by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

UK scientists, including from the University of Oxford, have played a key role in solving a neutrino mystery that has challenged researchers for decades.

Scientists have developed a new material that converts motion into electricity (piezoelectricity) with greater efficiency and without using toxic lead – paving the way for a new generation of devices that we use in everyday life.

Professor Patrick Irwin has been awarded the David Bates Medal by the European Geosciences Union for 2026.