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Chirality

Terahertz pulses induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal

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.
23 January 2025
Professor David Lucas

David Lucas appointed Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics

Professor David Lucas, a leading researcher in experimental quantum computing, has been appointed Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford.
16 January 2025
Professor Ard Louis

Commentary: Professor Louis on deep neural networks

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.
14 January 2025
Northern Lights

Why are we seeing the Northern Lights more often?

Dr Carly Howett speaks to Oxford Sparks in their first podcast of 2025
13 January 2025
Professor James Binney

Professor Binney awarded RAS Gold Medal

Professor Binney awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements in the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies.
10 January 2025
Image of Saturn and Jupiter

Citizen science reveals insight into Jupiter

Citizen science reveals that Jupiter’s colourful clouds are not made of ammonia ice
6 January 2025
Montage of images

Celebrating 10 years of HAPP

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.
6 January 2025
Professor Ard Louis

Commentary: Professor Louis on oxDNA and the magic of self-assembly

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.
12 December 2024
Lavina Snoek with two ponies

Meet...Lavina Snoek

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
11 December 2024
Edward Appleton

100 years since Appleton’s Oxford discovery of the ionosphere

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.
11 December 2024
Honeycomb lattice with a twist could pave the way to stabilize new quantum states

Breakthrough discovery in magnetic materials could unlock new quantum states

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.
5 December 2024
Athena Swan Gold

Athena Swan Gold for Physics

The Department of Physics has been given the Athena Swan Gold award having held Athena Swan Silver since 2015. The Athena Swan Charter is a framework to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.
4 December 2024
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