30 June 2022
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\n \n \n \nThe Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK\u2019s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n7 June 2022
\n \n \n \nFive individuals and two teams from the University of Oxford have won prestigious prizes at this year\u2019s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Awards.
\n \n\n \n \n31 May 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research led by Professor Patrick Irwin in the Department of Physics suggests that a layer of haze that exists on both planets is behind the different hues of blue.
\n \n\n \n \n30 May 2022
\n \n \n \nAn international team of scientists, including Professor Rob Fender, Dr Ian Heywood and Dr Jakob van den Eijnden from the University of Oxford, have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds.
\n \n\n \n \n19 May 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 'Meat the Future' exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which draws on research from LEAP, an interdisciplinary programme involving MPLS zoologists, ecologists and physicists, has won 'Partnership of the Year', while Oxford's History of Science Museum won the 'Visitor Welcome Award'.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2022
\n \n \n \nIn all, eight scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All but one are from departments in MPLS Division.
\n \n\n \n \n26 April 2022
\n \n \n \nFour \u2018excellent research leaders\u2019 at Oxford, three of them from MPLS Division, have today been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to fund boundary-pushing research projects in Biology, Linguistics, Mathematics and Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n12 April 2022
\n \n \n \nSix institutions, including the University of Oxford, are leading efforts to deliver computational systems that will enable the world\u2019s largest radio telescope
\n \n\n \n \n8 April 2022
\n \n \n \nAn international collaboration of scientists has performed the most precise measurement of the W boson yet \u2013 asking questions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Myles Allen, University of Oxford and Hugh Helferty, Queen's University Ontario discuss whether Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine makes it harder to stop climate change.
\n \n\n \n \n31 March 2022
\n \n \n \nResearch recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Oxford-led scientists suggests that Mother Nature plays favourites and that she believes in the elegance of simplicity.
\n \n\n \n \n22 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe programme will establish a cross-disciplinary community of researchers in quantum computing and computer science, who will collaborate to address the global challenge of delivering quantum computing that is robust, reliable, and trustworthy.
\n \n\n \n \n21 March 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now published in Nature, involves a chaotic triple drama inside a giant disk of gas around a super massive black hole in a galaxy far, far away.
\n \n\n \n \n22 February 2022
\n \n \n \nUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome have announced a \u00a318 million investment for nine multidisciplinary research projects through the Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund. Two of these projects are co-led by academics in MPLS departments.
\n \n\n \n \n10 February 2022
\n \n \n \nScientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system\u2019s icy moons.
\n \n\n \n \n10 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.
\n \n\n \n \n18 January 2022
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n4 January 2022
\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.
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