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Researchers from the Department of Physics contribute to major advance in the search for dark matter and gravitational waves.

Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry have all been recognised for their work reporting the results from the measurement campaigns at Fermilab.

Professor Foster's latest book, Einstein: A Life in Science and Music, marries his two passions of particle physics and music and here he reflects on the role music played in Einstein's life.

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

Professor Philip Burrows has been appointed Chair of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee (SPC), following his selection by the CERN Council at its September 2025 meeting.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have led a breakthrough study which has recorded the first observation of carbon-neutrino interactions; the findings open new frontiers in nuclear and particle physics.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have played a major role in one of the most precise studies yet of the Higgs boson — the mysterious particle that helps explain why everything in the universe has mass.

UK scientists, including from the University of Oxford, have played a key role in solving a neutrino mystery that has challenged researchers for decades.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma 'fireballs' using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva, to study the stability of plasma jets emanating from blazars.

Professor Peter Norreys has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to fundamental studies of high energy density plasmas using high power petawatt-class lasers.

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.