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

Physicists from Cern's ATLAS experiment have been able to probe the Higgs coupling to b- and c-quarks simultaneously using direct Higgs decays – a huge improvement on previous measurements.

Department runs hands-on and interactive event for girls aged 12-14 years old

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper

Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition

Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

In a letter published in Physical Review Letters, Dr Berislav Buca claims: an egg can actually unscramble itself – if it is quantum.

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.

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.

It is with great sadness that we announce that emeritus colleague and former Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Professor David Andrews died on 1 March 2022.