Latest news and comment

The first images from the extraordinary NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory have been made public today.

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 recognising her work in revolutionising silicon detector technology and in supporting women in physics.

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.

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.

Professor Philip Burrows has been re-elected Chair of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board at the collaboration's annual meeting that took place in Genoa in October.

Professor Manjit Dosanjh comments on how physics has a key role to play in tackling the disparity in access to essential radiotherapy treatment and how advances will transform treatment in the future.

Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.

The latest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector located nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, narrow down the possibilities for a leading dark matter candidate.

The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.

An international team of scientists, led by the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening up a new frontier in laboratory astrophysics.

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

The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.