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Dr Robert J Ewart has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the seventh winner from the University of Oxford in recent years.

Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK.

Scientists from Oxford University are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments.

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

On Saturday 15 March, particle physicists from the Department of Physics were tasked with sharing their love of fundamental physics with the wider public for the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.

Through a series of interactive, carefully designed events, the access and outreach team reached almost 1,000 young people and some 900 members of the public in March.

Astrophysicists, in collaboration with the Oxford University Space and Astronomy Society, organised an eclipse viewing event outside the Said Business School in Oxford on Saturday 29 March

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first women to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society 80 years ago. Emeritus Professor Mike Glazer was one of her last PhD students; here, he reflects on his time with her and her remarkable legacy.

New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped the evolution of the Universe.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Bill Hayes; he passed away peacefully on 16 March aged 94.

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes are due to two stars coming together – rather than emissions from a single star.

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