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Physics programme highly commended in VC Awards 2026

Physics outreach programme, the Comprehensive Oxford Mathematics and Physics Online School (COMPOS), has been highly commended in the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2026.

Oana Bazavan and Sebastian Saner

Oxford physicists create new family of Schrödinger's cat states

Researchers generate cat-like superpositions built from highly nonclassical quantum components.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal

Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our Solar System may be magnetic.

Partners Day for the Oxford Superconductivity CDT

Superconductivity CDT Partners’ Day strengthens links with industry

Industry and research partners joined doctoral students and supervisors in Oxford for a day of talks, panel discussions and networking as part of the Superconductivity CDT Residential Week 2026.

Keith Tyson in front of painting artwork.

Keith Tyson supports prestigious professorship

Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson has donated £250,000 to fund the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy.

James Matthews in blue collared shirt smiling

Meet...James Matthews

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

AI-led weather forecasting systems for Africa

Dr Shruti Nath has been appointed Research Lead at the community-driven African research institute, AfriClimate AI. This partnership brings together expertise in AI weather forecasting, climate science, and operational meteorology.

Artist's illustration of the protocol created by AI (Google Gemini).

Quantum memory sharpens precision measurements

A new sensing technique developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London uses a quantum memory to sort light into precise temporal patterns, achieving record-breaking precision enhancement in optical frequency measurement.

Artist's impression of X-ray Magnetic Vector Chronoscopy

New X-ray technique ‘films’ magnetic waves in 3D

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Diamond Light Source, and ShanghaiTech University have developed an advanced X-ray method that, for the first time, enables scientists to observe the complete three-dimensional motion of magnetic waves.

Ramin Golestanian

Professor Ramin Golestanian elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Ramin Golestanian has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the development of the field of active matter.

Image of active nematic fluid (in detailed blue and red) with passive liquid substrate (in less detailed blue and red). Text between them with arrows says 'Frictional coupling'

New findings into fluid dynamics inside living matter

A new study reveals turbulent flows generated by living matter are 'filtered' out by neighbouring fluids, posing implications for how scientists measure forces in cells and tissues.

Professor Daniela Bortoletto in conversation with Mark Thomson, Director-General, CERN

In conversation: what's next for CERN

Head of Particle Physics, Professor Daniela Bortoletto, talks to Oxford alumnus Mark Thomson, CERN Director-General, about what is in store for CERN as it prepares for a major upgrade that will take 4 years.