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Since the 1960s, the Department of Physics has had the privilege of having its own in-house specialist photofabrication facility. The facility is now set to be retired; here we reflect on some 60 years of specialist expertise and custom outputs.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; he explains how the grant will help to transform laboratory astrophysics into a tool to investigate processes that cannot be easily captured by current theory and simulations.

The first ever Youth Quantum Summit (YQS) took place at the University of Oxford on 4 November.

Breakthrough Listen announce findings from the most sensitive search to date for ‘technosignatures’ – signs of intelligent life – beyond the Milky Way.

Researchers have discovered a new class of emergent magnetic monopoles in the quantum material known as hematite – the main component of rust. These elusive emergent particles could pave the way to greener and more powerful computing technologies.

Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics.

Professor Fabrizio Caola has been awarded a sought-after ERC Consolidator Grant; he talks about his quest to develop extremely sophisticated theoretical predictions to match the exquisite precision of the LHC data…

Researchers including Professor Achillefs Kapanidis from the Department of Physics, have reported advances towards a novel and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test that can return results within as little as 30 minutes.

Professor Amalia Coldea has been made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society for her pioneering studies of the electronic structure and the nematic and superconducting orders of iron-based superconductors.

Professor Radu Coldea has been made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions to the understanding of quantum magnetism and quantum phase transitions using both neutron and resonant x-ray scattering techniques.

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have helped to discover a spectacularly bright and unusual explosion in a galaxy 4.4 billion light-years away. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

Our columnist takes an alternative look at day-to-day life in the Department of Physics and this month, she puts a new spin on the idea of a games console...