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Researchers from the department took part in the first ever physics summer roadshow for local schools reaching over 1,000 young people

The latest addition to the William Herschel Telescope will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour revealing how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.

New research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the ‘ultimate’, ‘bug-proof’ means of communication.

Members of the public were welcomed into the Department of Physics for behind-the-scenes lab tours of the research that impacts our lives.

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics have a new understanding of how the mysterious ‘absorbing aerosol’ can change the climate. The research, led by Andrew Williams and Professor Philip Stier, is published in today in Nature Climate Change.

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics has announced investment of £38 million (US $46.45 million) in the first close of an ongoing Series A funding round.

A new graduate scholarship has been established in the Department of Physics following a gift of £86,000 from alumnus Nick Greenwood.

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.

Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, particle physicists at CERN announced they had independently observed a new particle: the Higgs boson. Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role since.