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An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier.

Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have shown that terahertz light can induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal.

Professor David Lucas, a leading researcher in experimental quantum computing, has been appointed Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford.

Professor Ard Louis' latest paper in Nature Communications identifies an inbuilt Occam’s razor that helps explain why the deep neural networks (DNNs) that power modern AI are so effective at learning from data.

Dr Carly Howett speaks to Oxford Sparks in their first podcast of 2025

Professor Binney awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements in the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies.

Citizen science reveals that Jupiter’s colourful clouds are not made of ammonia ice

The St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP) was founded in 2014 and, to celebrate a decade of discussion and debate, HAPP published its 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume.

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he shares the story of oxDNA, the most successful and widely adopted coarse-grained model for DNA self-assembly.

The night of 11-12 December marks 100 years since Edward Appleton’s historic experiment in Oxford, using radio waves to investigate the layers of charged particles in the Earth’s ionosphere.

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

In a study published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the Quantum Magnetism group in the Department of Physics have developed an innovative approach to synthesise and study rare-earth magnetic materials.