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Artistic representation of the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star

JWST atmosphere reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 b

Dr Jake Taylor from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of a team of scientists led by the Université de Montréal to analyse data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system.
25 September 2023
Professor Peter Norreys

Professor Peter Norreys recognised by ANS

Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award.
19 September 2023
Professor John Cardy FRS

Professor John Cardy awarded Breakthrough Prize

Professor John Cardy, an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, has today been named as joint winner of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
14 September 2023
Sopie Paszynska

Meet...Sophie Paszynska

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
11 September 2023
Dr Dominika Gruszka

Dr Gruszka named Vallee Scholar

Dr Dominika Gruszka from the Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery has been named as one of six 2023 Vallee Scholars.
7 September 2023
Students standing outside RAL Space building with Raghu and Daisy

Inspiring the next generation of quantum physicists

Year 12 students get a taste for a career in quantum technologies
4 September 2023
An aerial view of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal in Chile's sparsely populated Atacama Desert

New insights into Neptune's dark spot

Astronomers, led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it.
24 August 2023
Professor Paolo Radaelli

Professor Radaelli recognised by IOP

Professor Paolo Radaelli has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ and the Italian Physical Society’s Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize.
23 August 2023
Beecroft building

Exciting new fellowship opportunities for theoretical physicists

We are looking for the most talented early-career theoretical physicists worldwide to join us here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in Oxford.
22 August 2023
A computed-aided design model of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft

Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon

A thermal imaging camera built by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will form an integral part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, scheduled to launch in 2024.
21 August 2023
The orange dots denote the phenotype robustness of different RNA secondary structure phenotypes for length 15 RNA strands versus the fraction f of the total space of sequences that map to that phenotype.  The maximum robustness curve (a fractal line) is exactly achieved by some of the RNA secondary structure phenotypes.

Number theory and evolutionary genetics

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics.
3 August 2023
Yuanmin Zhang

Meet...Yuanmin Zhang

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
2 August 2023
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