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

Findings from two separate research papers analysing ship tracks indicate that air pollution has a larger effect on climate than previously thought.

Big Data: ATLAS is recruiting schools and colleges now offering students the opportunity to work with research data direct from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Professor David Deutsch, Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics at Oxford, is one of four pioneering physicists to receive the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for work in quantum information.

The University of Oxford is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The University enjoyed a close relationship with the Queen throughout her reign and gives thanks for her 70 years of service to the nation.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have been able to demonstrate a network of two entangled optical atomic clocks and show how the entanglement between the remote clocks can be used to improve their measurement precision.

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.

An international team of researchers led by Professor JC Séamus Davis, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS as Philip Wetton Chair of Astrophysics.

A unique nationwide outreach initiative for sixth formers at state schools across the country has completed a successful year-long pilot and received funding to grow and run for another year.