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

The Department of Physics has held four events so far this year dedicated to increasing women’s participation with and engagement in science – physics in particular.

Pioneering weather and climate modeller, Professor Tim Palmer from the Department of Physics at Oxford, has been elected Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

A multi-institutional team will explore a new method for creating fusion power they hope could eventually be scaled to provide safe, clean, and abundant energy.

A study published today in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the maximum temperature of the hottest days is increasing at twice the rate of the maximum temperature of average summer days.

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.

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

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

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

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.