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The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.

New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), Intelligent Earth, will train almost 100 PhD students to develop and apply cutting-edge AI technologies to tackle urgent environmental crises.

A global team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars.

Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023.

Dr Jake Taylor from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of a team of scientists led by the Université de Montréal to analyse data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system.

Astronomers, led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it.

A thermal imaging camera built by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will form an integral part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, scheduled to launch in 2024.

Dr Katherine Shirley has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award for her planetary research work.

Professor Timothy Palmer has been awarded the World Meteorological Organization’s top award, the IMO prize, for his outstanding contribution to meteorology, and in particular, for developing probabilistic ensemble prediction methods for forecasting.

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 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.