10 February 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers studying giant Amazonian waterlilies grown at the University's Botanic Garden have unravelled the engineering enigma behind the largest floating leaves in nature.
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\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, who has been appointed CBE in the New Year Honours 2022 for services to climate change attribution, prediction and net zero.
\n \n\n \n \n29 November 2021
\n \n \n \nSix scientists from the Department of Physics have been recognised by the Institute of Physics in this year\u2019s IOP awards along with a seventh physicist from Oxford\u2019s Department of Education. Two academics have also be made Honorary Fellows, the highest accolade presented by the IOP.
\n \n\n \n \n25 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division pays tribute to the extraordinary Sir Martin Wood FRS who died on 23 November 2021. Read the obituary by Professor Steve Blundell, Professor Robert Taylor and Professor Ian Shipsey on the Physics website.
\n \n\n \n \n18 November 2021
\n \n \n \nQuantum Dice's founders include the Department of Physics\u2019 Ramy Aboushelbaya and Marko Mayr; the company is developing the world\u2019s first compact source-device independent quantum random number generator set to play a key role in the cybersecurity market.
\n \n\n \n \n26 October 2021
\n \n \n \n\u2018There is no way we are going to be able to ban the entire world from using fossil fuels in time to meet our climate goals,\u2019 warns Professor Myles Allen, the Oxford expert credited with first demonstrating, 15 years ago, the need for \u2018Net-Zero\u2019 carbon dioxide emissions to stop global warming.
\n \n\n \n \n18 October 2021
\n \n \n \nSix young academics from across the University of Oxford have today been given Philip Leverhulme prizes \u2013 the largest number awarded to researchers of any university.
\n \n\n \n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nRecent research (joint between the University of Oxford, Rockefeller University, and Princeton University) has found that the way tardigrades coordinate their 'walking' motion mirrors the stepping patterns of larger panarthropods such as stick insects and spiders.
\n \n\n \n \n23 September 2021
\n \n \n \nAn article by Dr Steve Smith, executive director of the Oxford Net Zero Initiative and the CO2RE hub, which is focussed on greenhouse gas removal.
\n \n\n \n \n8 September 2021
\n \n \n \nFive of the new Fellows are from MPLS Division. The Fellowships have been created by UKRI to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
\n \n\n \n \n9 August 2021
\n \n \n \nLeading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC\u2019s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures.
\n \n\n \n \n29 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA Science Blog interview with Philip Stier, now at the forefront of climate science as a leading researcher into clouds.
\n \n\n \n \n16 June 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Department of Physics is delighted to have received a significant philanthropic donation from the Binks Trust, which will be used to enhance its solar energy research over the next few years.
\n \n\n \n \n11 June 2021
\n \n \n \nScientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that classical nova explosions are accompanied by the ejection of jets of oppositely-directed hot gas and plasma, and that this persists for years following the nova eruption. Previously, such jets had only been encountered emanating from very different systems such as black holes or newly collapsing stars.
\n \n\n \n \n10 June 2021
\n \n \n \nOxford University scientists will play a leading role in a new mission to study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, our neighbouring planet, helping determine whether it was once habitable \u2013 and why Earth became the only known planet that can sustain life.
\n \n\n \n \n8 June 2021
\n \n \n \nPhysicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again. An extraordinarily precise measurement made by Oxford researchers using the LHCb experiment at CERN has provided the first evidence that charm mesons can change into their antiparticle and back again.
\n \n\n \n \n14 May 2021
\n \n \n \nTo date, astronomers have identified more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life. Now, new research is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life.
\n \n\n \n \n13 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNature-based solutions (NbS) can contribute to the fight against climate change up to the end of our century, according to new Oxford research in Nature. The analysis suggests that, to limit global temperature rise, we must slash emissions and increase NbS investment to protect, manage and restore ecosystems and land for the future.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2021
\n \n \n \nBen 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.
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