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Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.

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

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

Professor Myles Allen has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his groundbreaking contributions to the quantitative understanding of climate change.

Brand new intel on mysterious planet GJ 1214 b has been gleaned thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Professor Manjit Dosanjh's pioneering work to apply physics to the medical domain is changing the field in cancer treatment; find out more about her here.

A startlingly beautiful image that has just been published was inspired by an algorithm proposed by theorists from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2018.

Department of Physics alumnus Dr David Hosking has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

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

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

Two papers published today in Nature Astronomy present the discovery of four of the most distant galaxies yet found.

Oxford astrophysicists have led a project in which the earliest stages of the Universe’s most powerful explosions are captured in detail for the first time.