A new analysis led by Oxford physicists and published in the journal 'Science' has shown that the devastating Hunga Tonga\u2013Hunga Ha\u02bbapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded.
In the run-up to COP27, Myles Allen, Department of Physics and Environmental Change Institute, discusses more than two decades of work on climate change.
Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, near-surface seismic waves have been recorded for the first time on a planet other than Earth. The data, analysed by an international team involving University of Oxford researchers, has revealed valuable new information about the structure of the Martian crust.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced this week that they have awarded more than \u00a320 million for UK theoretical physics. The investment will benefit the Particle Theory group in the Department of Physics as well as the Mathematical Physics group in the Mathematical Institute.
The 2022 Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit will focus on growth and investment, as it returns to Oxford University\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School. The event is in partnership with Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and aims to deliver on decarbonised transport in the UK, and beyond.
Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
The prize recognises outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics and Professor Davis is awarded the prize for his innovative applications of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy to complex quantum states of matter.
Research led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
A group of researchers based at Oxford University\u2019s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analysing satellite data to more accurately quantify the effect of human aerosol emissions on climate change. The results are published today in the journal Nature.
An international team of researchers, led by Professor JC S\u00e9amus Davis from the Department of Physics, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity.
Stellar astrophysicist Professor Smartt joins the Department of Physics from his alma mater Queen\u2019s University Belfast and takes over from Professor Roger Davies, who has held the Wetton Chair since its creation in 2002.
The partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
Oxford Physics is part of the international team analysing data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has captured the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.
Following the award of three European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to MPLS academics in April 2022, a fourth award has subsequently been made to Professor Jarvis in the Department of Physics.
Each year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. This year eight Oxford University researchers, six of them from MPLS Division, have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville\u2019s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. Awarded biennially, this award recognises outstanding ideas and achievements in research around the science, engineering, technology, and commercialisation of renewable energy.
A multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford\u2019s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in \u00a36 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.
New research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the \u2018ultimate\u2019, \u2018bug-proof\u2019 means of communication.
Eleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
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