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A cutting-edge instrument developed by scientists at the University of Oxford has passed critical tests and gained a powerful adaptive optics system.
From The Conversation: Mars InSight: why we’ll be listening to the landing of the Perseverance rover
Earth sciences Physics Research The Conversation
15 February 2021
Ben Fernando (Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics) writes about using the Insight mission to detect seismic signals during the landing of Perseverance - the first time that anyone has tried using a spacecraft on the surface of another planet to detect another spacecraft arriving.
Science Blog: From rust to riches? Computing goes green...or is that brown?
Computer science Physics Research
3 February 2021
Professor Paolo Radaelli from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working with Diamond Light Source, has been leading research into silicon alternatives and his group’s surprising findings are published in Nature on 4th February.
Science Blog: Listening for a space craft to land on Mars
Physics Research
21 January 2021
University physicists believe that, for the first time, they might be able to ‘hear’ a spacecraft land on Mars, when Perseverance arrives at Earth’s ‘near’ neighbour in about a month’s time around 18 February.
Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: exciting science awaits
Funding Physics Research
13 January 2021
Oxford’s Department of Physics is playing a key role in three of the seven quantum projects supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives highest accolade from Royal Astronomical Society
Award Physics
11 January 2021
Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s highest honour, the Gold Medal 2021. The medal recognises her extraordinary achievements and has been awarded not only for her personal research but also for her contributions to the field of astronomy generally.
$10 million gift for new Nanoscience Institute in Oxford
Biomedical engineering Chemistry Engineering Funding Materials science Medical science Physics
7 December 2020
A new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation.
Oxford Net Zero launches to tackle global carbon emissions
Climate change Earth sciences Physics Plant sciences Zoology
17 November 2020
The Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global ‘net zero’ – limiting greenhouse gases – in time to halt global warming.
The European Space Agency formally adopts Ariel, the exoplanet explorer
Physics Research
12 November 2020
More than 50 institutes from 17 countries, including the University of Oxford, have been working over the past five years to develop the science goals and design the instrumentation which will enable Ariel to survey a diverse sample of around 1000 planets outside our own solar system.
Global food system emissions alone threaten warming beyond 1.5°C – but we can act now to stop it
Climate change Physics The Conversation
6 November 2020
In an article from 'The Conversation', John Lynch in the Department of Physics discusses the necessary changes for bringing agriculture in line with a “net-zero” world.
Understanding the superpowers of perovskites
Materials science Physics Research
2 November 2020
For the first time, researchers from Oxford’s Departments of Physics and Materials have managed to image hybrid metal halide perovskites with atomic-scale resolution providing new insights into these wonder-materials.
Institute of Physics awards for MPLS researchers
Award Chemistry Physics
30 October 2020
Three MPLS academics and researchers have been awarded 2020 IOP Medals for their contributions to Physics - two in the Department of Physics and one in the Department of Chemistry.
Large tides may have been a key factor in the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods
Earth sciences Physics Research
26 October 2020
Pioneering research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian - Devonian periods (420 million years ago - 380 million years ago), suggests that large tides may have been a key environmental factor in the evolution of bony fish and early tetrapods, the first vertebrate land-dwellers.
Oxford scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19
COVID-19 Physics Research
15 October 2020
Scientists from the Department of Physics have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test that detects and identifies viruses in less than five minutes.
Large Hadron Collider enters new phase with Oxford playing key role
Physics Research
11 September 2020
Scientists, engineers and technicians from nine UK research organisations, including the University of Oxford, have embarked on a £26M project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva.
Prestigious European Awards for MPLS researchers
Chemistry Funding Materials science Physics
8 September 2020
Five researchers from MPLS Division have been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants to fund cutting-edge projects.
Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future
Climate change Physics Research
13 August 2020
Scientists from the Department of Physics at Oxford University have discovered that the influence of circulation changes on shaping ocean warming will diminish in the future.
MPLS researchers awarded 2020 Royal Society Research Fellowships
Award Chemistry Maths Physics Plant sciences
12 August 2020
Oxford scientists at CERN help take one step closer to understanding the Higgs boson
Physics Research
4 August 2020
New results have been announced by particle physicists at CERN, including a team led by Oxford scientists, that will move them closer to understanding the basic forces that shape our universe.
MPLS success in Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards 2020
Award Chemistry Computer science Innovation and Enterprise Physics
28 July 2020
The Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards celebrate research-led innovation that is having societal or economic impact.