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Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters

Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group.

Oxford University spin-out, Quantum Dice, has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Business Start-up Award 2021.

A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in

In a milestone for high energy density physics, a new beamline at the European X-Ray Laser (XFEL), was officially opened yesterday, 31 August 2021.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory

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Researchers at the Department of Physics have today published a paper reviewing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for understanding "extreme physics" – the physics of matter at extremely high temperatures and densities.

An international collaboration has conducted experiments that captured for the first time a physical mechanism thought to be responsible for generating and sustaining astrophysical magnetic fields.