13 January 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
\n \n\n \n \n11 January 2023
\n \n \n \nThree 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.
\n \n\n \n \n20 December 2022
\n \n \n \nIn 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.
\n \n\n \n \n19 December 2022
\n \n \n \nNuclear 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.
\n \n\n \n \n15 December 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n13 December 2022
\n \n \n \n\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.
\n \n\n \n \n9 December 2022
\n \n \n \nNew 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 November 2022
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n23 November 2022
\n \n \n \nUniversity 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).
\n \n\n \n \n23 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThis year\u2019s funding totals \u20ac636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were successful this year.
\n \n\n \n \n17 November 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n \n \n16 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAir 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.
\n \n\n \n \n11 November 2022
\n \n \n \nWe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n4 November 2022
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 November 2022
\n \n \n \nIn the run-up to COP27, Myles Allen, Department of Physics and Environmental Change Institute, discusses more than two decades of work on climate change.
\n \n\n \n \n28 October 2022
\n \n \n \nFollowing 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.
\n \n\n \n \n25 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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