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Deaglan Bartlett

Meet...Deaglan Bartlett

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
9 June 2025
One of the Simons Observatory small aperture telescopes (SAT)

Commentary: Professor Alonso on unlocking secrets of the universe with the Simons Observatory

A consortium across six UK universities has been awarded an STFC Astronomy Large Award to fund their work analysing data from the Simons Observatory; Professor David Alonso explains how it could shed light on dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang.
2 June 2025
Professor Tony Bell FRS

Royal Society honours Professor Bell FRS

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.
28 August 2024
LZ’s outer photomultiplier tubes collect light from background particle interactions

New record in search for dark matter

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.
27 August 2024
Sparshita Dey

Meet...Sparshita Dey

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
14 December 2023
The Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

A new window on the cosmos

Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford comments in The Conversation.
3 July 2023
Dr Nick Bultinck, left, and Dr James Matthews, right

Royal Society University Research Fellows join Physics

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.
12 December 2022
Two males standing in front of a blackboard with equations written on it

Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.
25 October 2022
Aerial photograph of the current Simons Observatory site

Oxford role in search for origins of Universe

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.
17 October 2022
Dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, interpreted as due to our motion towards the hotspot. The horizontal dark stripe is emission from our Galaxy (Planck collaboration 2020).

'Lopsided' Universe could mean revision of standard cosmological model

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model
7 September 2022
The LZ central detector in the clean room at Sanford Lab after assembly, before beginning its journey underground

All systems go for dark matter detector LUX-ZEPLIN

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.
11 July 2022
Graphic to represent tracing movement of galaxies back in time.

Cutting-edge maths turns back time in our universe

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.
19 May 2022
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