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

Researchers at the University of Oxford and the MicroBooNE collaboration have recently performed the first ever measurement of electron neutrino interactions on argon producing outgoing charged pions.

Oxford Sparks looks to explore and discover the scientific research happening at the University of Oxford, and in this episode, they ask the question, how do you detect a particle that emits no light - in other words, something invisible?

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

Dr Samuel Henry and DPhil students Ruben Hönscheid and Nathan Baudis joined the University of Oxford's Oxplore festival in Bradford and Warrington in July.

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.