A study published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the maximum temperature of the hottest days is increasing at twice the rate of the maximum temperature of average summer days. The results highlight the need for urgent action by policy makers to adapt essential infrastructure to the impacts of climate change.
Nicholas Leach, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Predictability of Weather and Climate group, Department of Physics, writes about the Pacific Northwest heatwave of 2021 and what it says about the probability of extreme heatwave events.
Matthew Wright, DPhil student in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the Department of Physics, writes about the need to ensure the UK\u2019s energy system is prepared for and resilient to future weather extremes.
Professor Vlatko Vedral from the Department of Physics contributes to a podcast discussing the need for a theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity, and whether we are anywhere near achieving that goal.
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers of four of the most distant galaxies found to date \u2013 confirmed using key instruments developed by the instrument science team with Oxford physicists.
Chiara Marletto from the Department of Physics talks to The Conversation about constructor theory, a generalisation of the quantum theory of information.
Listen to Natalia Ares, a thermodynamics researcher in the Department of Engineering Science on the Great Mysteries of Physics podcast from The Conversation.
Professor Tim Palmer has today received the Royal Astronomical Society\u2019s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics for his outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather.
Three University of Oxford spinouts, including two from MPLS, have raised significant investment to scale their companies in vehicle automation, quantum computing and medical imaging respectively.
In November 2021, a team of graduate students from Oxford teamed up with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to turn the ideas of secondary school children into real experiments for launch to the International Space Station.
Nuclear fusion and the hope of a source of clean, abundant energy may still be decades away, but the latest breakthrough could speed up its development.
The University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years, as part of a multi-institutional agreement supporting cutting-edge research in the science of weather and climate prediction.
\u2018With ignition now achieved, not only has fusion energy been unlocked, but also a door has been opened to new science,\u2019 said Professor Gregori, Department of Physics.
New findings confirm that Webb has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe as an international team of astronomers, including scientists from Oxford, has today reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our Universe.
A brand-new world-class research facility, the National Thin-Film Cluster Facility (NTCF) for Advanced Functional Materials, hosted by the Department of Physics, was officially launched last week.
University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet\u2019s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
This year\u2019s funding totals \u20ac636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were successful this year.
Researchers from the Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite, which shed light on early solar system conditions and support the theory that meteorites catalysed the emergence of life on Earth.
Air pollutants in the form of tiny particles suspended in air kill around seven million people every year, but also have a buffering effect on climate change. By Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris and Philip Stier from the Department of Physics.
We have to stop fossil fuels from causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels, insists physicist and Professor of Geosystem Science Myles Allen, as he outlines an approach to reaching net zero by 2050.
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