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Image of participants at Physics: Lab to Life

Making a difference with physics

We open our doors, and our labs, to the public for the annual Physics: Lab to Life event
17 March 2023
The ~2m-diameter carbon fibre cylinder for the outer layer of the strip tracker

Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade

After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration.
16 March 2023
Charlie Garner

Meet...Charlie Garner

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 March 2023
Wendy Dang

Meet...Wendy Dang

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 March 2023
Cover of Collision: stories from the science of CERN

Putting the science into science fiction

Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN brings together 13 physicists from CERN, including Dr Daniel Cervenkov, with award-winning writers and authors
3 March 2023
The Oxonians, winners of this year's preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS

Oxford undergrads take top spot at PLANCKS 23

The Oxonians from the University of Oxford secured first place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS
2 March 2023
An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system.

New insights on binary star systems

Researchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and fascinating space phenomenon. The study has been published in Nature.
2 March 2023
Dr Alex Picksley

Dr Picksley awarded Culham Thesis Prize

Dr Alex Picksley from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.
2 March 2023
Dr Maria Mironova

ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova

Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award.
1 March 2023
Hannah Christensen, left, with colleagues

£1m Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for climate prediction

Professor Hannah Christensen has received a £1m Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for research that focuses on characterising and reducing uncertainty in weather forecasts and climate predictions
28 February 2023
Just some of the 64 antennae that make up MeerKAT in South Africa

New intel on radio pulsars

An international team of scientists has published the largest pulsar survey to date.
24 February 2023
Image of a galaxy taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

New Webb imagery pierces through the dust

New imagery from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument is revealing never-before-seen details into how young, newly forming stars influence the structure of the gas and dust of nearby galaxies, and therefore how they evolve over time.
16 February 2023
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