24 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.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nResearch led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA group of researchers based at Oxford University\u2019s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analysing satellite data to more accurately quantify the effect of human aerosol emissions on climate change. The results are published today in the journal Nature.
\n \n\n \n \n7 September 2022
\n \n \n \nAn international team of researchers, led by Professor JC S\u00e9amus Davis from the Department of Physics, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity.
\n \n\n \n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nStellar astrophysicist Professor Smartt joins the Department of Physics from his alma mater Queen\u2019s University Belfast and takes over from Professor Roger Davies, who has held the Wetton Chair since its creation in 2002.
\n \n\n \n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nA summit today at Oxford University\u2019s Blavatnik School of Government will explore and map how innovation can help the world to net zero, faster.
\n \n\n \n \n26 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
\n \n\n \n \n26 August 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford Physics is part of the international team analysing data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has captured the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.
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