Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society\u2019s 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.
The Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university\u2019s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global \u2018net zero\u2019 \u2013 limiting greenhouse gases \u2013 in time to halt global warming.
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.
In an article from 'The Conversation', John Lynch in the Department of Physics discusses the necessary changes for bringing agriculture in line with a \u201cnet-zero\u201d world.
For the first time, researchers from Oxford\u2019s Departments of Physics and Materials have managed to image hybrid metal halide perovskites with atomic-scale resolution providing new insights into these wonder-materials.
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.
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.
Scientists from the Department of Physics have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test that detects and identifies viruses in less than five minutes.
Scientists, engineers and technicians from nine UK research organisations, including the University of Oxford, have embarked on a \u00a326M project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva.
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.
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.
Research led by Professor Subir Sarkar of the Department of Physics finds that evidence that the universe's expansion is speeding up is flimsier than previously thought.
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