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✨Thank you for following and supporting us for another year of transformational research and world-class teaching in the Department of Physics. Here’s to a new year of curiosity, collaboration and discovery. ✨
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
✨Thank you for following and supporting us for another year of transformational research and world-class teaching in the Department of Physics. Here’s to a new year of curiosity, collaboration and discovery. ✨
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
✨Thank you for following and supporting us for another year of transformational research and world-class teaching in the Department of Physics. Here’s to a new year of curiosity, collaboration and discovery. ✨
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
The Department of Physics is now closed until 5 January 2026.
The new Superconductivity CDT trains doctoral students to develop transformative technologies for Net Zero, healthcare, and quantum computing. Register now.: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/launching-superconductivity-cdt
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The new Superconductivity CDT trains doctoral students to develop transformative technologies for Net Zero, healthcare, and quantum computing. Register now.: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/launching-superconductivity-cdt
Join our Leverhulme-Peierls Fellows on February 7th for cutting-edge physics lectures. Register soon to secure your spot: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/saturday-morning-theoretical-physics-leverhulme-peierls-fellows-0
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Join our Leverhulme-Peierls Fellows on February 7th for cutting-edge physics lectures. Register soon to secure your spot: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/saturday-morning-theoretical-physics-leverhulme-peierls-fellows-0
Join our online session to explore the MSc in Quantum Technologies. Meet academics and ask questions. Register now to attend: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/masters-quantum-technologies-online-information-session-applicants
December 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join our online session to explore the MSc in Quantum Technologies. Meet academics and ask questions. Register now to attend: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/masters-quantum-technologies-online-information-session-applicants
Oxford researchers finally observed solar neutrinos interacting with carbon underground. Discover how these "ghost particles" transform matter.
More info: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-breakthrough-detecting-ghost-particles-sun
More info: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-breakthrough-detecting-ghost-particles-sun
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Oxford researchers finally observed solar neutrinos interacting with carbon underground. Discover how these "ghost particles" transform matter.
More info: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-breakthrough-detecting-ghost-particles-sun
More info: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-breakthrough-detecting-ghost-particles-sun
Quantum computing sounds mysterious, but it doesn’t have to be. Join physicist William Cutler as he demystifies this technology and its potential for medicine and security.
🎙️Listen to the podcast now: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/what-is-quantum-computing/
🎙️Listen to the podcast now: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/what-is-quantum-computing/
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Quantum computing sounds mysterious, but it doesn’t have to be. Join physicist William Cutler as he demystifies this technology and its potential for medicine and security.
🎙️Listen to the podcast now: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/what-is-quantum-computing/
🎙️Listen to the podcast now: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/what-is-quantum-computing/
Congratulations to Prof Moritz Riede, named among the first 13 Green Future Fellows by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Part of a £39m programme supporting innovative solutions to address the climate crisis.
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-riede-among-first-cohort-green-future-fellows
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-riede-among-first-cohort-green-future-fellows
December 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Congratulations to Prof Moritz Riede, named among the first 13 Green Future Fellows by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Part of a £39m programme supporting innovative solutions to address the climate crisis.
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-riede-among-first-cohort-green-future-fellows
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-riede-among-first-cohort-green-future-fellows
Below is just a selection of some books authored by our colleagues, alongside some suggested reading for those curious about physics. More about them, visit https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/books-holidays 📚
If you have any other physics related books to recommend, please write it below...📚
If you have any other physics related books to recommend, please write it below...📚
December 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Below is just a selection of some books authored by our colleagues, alongside some suggested reading for those curious about physics. More about them, visit https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/books-holidays 📚
If you have any other physics related books to recommend, please write it below...📚
If you have any other physics related books to recommend, please write it below...📚
Explore the Axion Dark-Matter Frontier! Join Prof. Lindley Winslow and Oxford experts on Jan 24 for our New Year Lecture. Attend in person or online. Register via bio by Jan 17! 🌌✨https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-new-year-lecture
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Explore the Axion Dark-Matter Frontier! Join Prof. Lindley Winslow and Oxford experts on Jan 24 for our New Year Lecture. Attend in person or online. Register via bio by Jan 17! 🌌✨https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-new-year-lecture
Oxford-led team ID'd one of the largest rotating structures reported: a 'razor-thin' string of galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away! 🌌 This unique dual motion helps explain how galaxies gain their spin.
Read more via link in bio.
Read more via link in bio.
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Oxford-led team ID'd one of the largest rotating structures reported: a 'razor-thin' string of galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away! 🌌 This unique dual motion helps explain how galaxies gain their spin.
Read more via link in bio.
Read more via link in bio.
Prof. Stephen Smartt & the ENGRAVE collaboration won the Danish Into Change Award for tracing the origins of the universe's heaviest elements—like gold & uranium—forged in neutron star mergers. The work built on the historic GW170817 discovery.
More via link in bio.
More via link in bio.
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Prof. Stephen Smartt & the ENGRAVE collaboration won the Danish Into Change Award for tracing the origins of the universe's heaviest elements—like gold & uranium—forged in neutron star mergers. The work built on the historic GW170817 discovery.
More via link in bio.
More via link in bio.
Oxford scientists created a new, non-toxic material (bismuth iodide-based) that converts motion into electricity (piezoelectricity) with high efficiency. It rivals lead-based PZT, paving the way for safer, self-powered sensors and flexible electronics. (246 characters). Link in bio for more.
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Oxford scientists created a new, non-toxic material (bismuth iodide-based) that converts motion into electricity (piezoelectricity) with high efficiency. It rivals lead-based PZT, paving the way for safer, self-powered sensors and flexible electronics. (246 characters). Link in bio for more.
How To Build a Quantum Christmas 🎄Join us for a festive, interactive Christmas Lecture, suitable for ages 11+, no prior knowledge needed. Discover how these powerful machines are built! Fun demos & prizes included. Book now:
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/how-build-quantum-christmas
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/how-build-quantum-christmas
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How To Build a Quantum Christmas 🎄Join us for a festive, interactive Christmas Lecture, suitable for ages 11+, no prior knowledge needed. Discover how these powerful machines are built! Fun demos & prizes included. Book now:
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/how-build-quantum-christmas
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/how-build-quantum-christmas
Prof Patrick Irwin won the prestigious David Bates Medal from the EGU 2026, recognizing his exceptional contributions to planetary and solar system sciences. Irwin shared, "I am humbled to be joining such a list of laureates...I am absolutely thrilled and very thankful to my colleagues and the EGU."
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Prof Patrick Irwin won the prestigious David Bates Medal from the EGU 2026, recognizing his exceptional contributions to planetary and solar system sciences. Irwin shared, "I am humbled to be joining such a list of laureates...I am absolutely thrilled and very thankful to my colleagues and the EGU."
Oxford scientists have helped find evidence that the Higgs boson can decay into two muons (H→μμ) — a rare process seen at CERN’s LHC. This confirms how the Higgs field gives mass to lighter particles.
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ATLAS finds evidence for rare Higgs decay
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.
www.physics.ox.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Oxford scientists have helped find evidence that the Higgs boson can decay into two muons (H→μμ) — a rare process seen at CERN’s LHC. This confirms how the Higgs field gives mass to lighter particles.
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📚 GRADUATE OPEN DAYS | Interested in pursuing graduate study in physics? Register to join one of our Open Days! There will be opportunities to meet academics and current students across our many sub-departments.
Details and registration:https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/public-alumni-and-schools-events
Details and registration:https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/public-alumni-and-schools-events
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📚 GRADUATE OPEN DAYS | Interested in pursuing graduate study in physics? Register to join one of our Open Days! There will be opportunities to meet academics and current students across our many sub-departments.
Details and registration:https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/public-alumni-and-schools-events
Details and registration:https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/public-alumni-and-schools-events
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The 13th Oxford Energy Day poster competition was a great success, congratulations to the winners! Please visit www.energy.ox.ac.uk/events/event... to view the posters @oxengsci.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordphysics.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @inetoxford.bsky.social
13th Oxford Energy Day – Energy & Data: Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition | Oxford Energy
Oxford is addressing the major technical, social, economic and policy challenges of providing secure, affordable and sustainable energy for all. Work on different aspects of the energy challenge, whi...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The 13th Oxford Energy Day poster competition was a great success, congratulations to the winners! Please visit www.energy.ox.ac.uk/events/event... to view the posters @oxengsci.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordphysics.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @inetoxford.bsky.social
Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the German Physical Society’s 2026 Stern-Gerlach Medal for his pioneering work on light-based control of quantum materials, with which he has made ground-breaking contributions to the control of emergent phenomena in solid-state physics.
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the German Physical Society’s 2026 Stern-Gerlach Medal for his pioneering work on light-based control of quantum materials, with which he has made ground-breaking contributions to the control of emergent phenomena in solid-state physics.
Congratulations to the MicroBooNE team on their latest publication in Nature. Check out our video with Prof Kirsty Duffy explaining how their study went hunting for 'sterile' neutrinos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlkpz9Bqao
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Congratulations to the MicroBooNE team on their latest publication in Nature. Check out our video with Prof Kirsty Duffy explaining how their study went hunting for 'sterile' neutrinos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlkpz9Bqao
Interested in doing a PhD in astrophysics? Register to join our Open Day where you can meet supervisors, chat with students, and learn more about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/astrophysics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/astrophysics-graduate-open-day-2025
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Interested in doing a PhD in astrophysics? Register to join our Open Day where you can meet supervisors, chat with students, and learn more about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/astrophysics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/astrophysics-graduate-open-day-2025
Interested in doing a DPhil in particle physics, accelerator physics or particle theory? Register for our online Open Day to meet supervisors, chat with students, and learn more about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Interested in doing a DPhil in particle physics, accelerator physics or particle theory? Register for our online Open Day to meet supervisors, chat with students, and learn more about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/particle-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Interested in pursuing graduate study in atomic and laser physics? Register to join our Open Day where you can meet supervisors, chat with students, and ask questions about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/atomic-and-laser-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/atomic-and-laser-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Interested in pursuing graduate study in atomic and laser physics? Register to join our Open Day where you can meet supervisors, chat with students, and ask questions about research in our department.
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/atomic-and-laser-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Register: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/atomic-and-laser-physics-graduate-open-day-2025
Interested in graduate study in condensed matter physics? Register for our Open Day to meet supervisors and students. There will be time for questions and discussion.
Details and registration: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/condensed-matter-physics-cmp-graduate-open-day-2025
Details and registration: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/condensed-matter-physics-cmp-graduate-open-day-2025
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Interested in graduate study in condensed matter physics? Register for our Open Day to meet supervisors and students. There will be time for questions and discussion.
Details and registration: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/condensed-matter-physics-cmp-graduate-open-day-2025
Details and registration: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/condensed-matter-physics-cmp-graduate-open-day-2025
The Superconductivity CDT will be holding an in-person/online open day for any prospective DPhil applicants on 4 December 2025. An opportunity to meet potential supervisors, current members and visit labs. Link in bio or https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/superconductivity-cdt-oxford-open-day-2025
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Superconductivity CDT will be holding an in-person/online open day for any prospective DPhil applicants on 4 December 2025. An opportunity to meet potential supervisors, current members and visit labs. Link in bio or https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/superconductivity-cdt-oxford-open-day-2025