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Members of the public were welcomed into the Department of Physics for behind-the-scenes lab tours of the research that impacts our lives.

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics have a new understanding of how the mysterious ‘absorbing aerosol’ can change the climate. The research, led by Andrew Williams and Professor Philip Stier, is published in today in Nature Climate Change.

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics has announced investment of £38 million (US $46.45 million) in the first close of an ongoing Series A funding round.

A new graduate scholarship has been established in the Department of Physics following a gift of £86,000 from alumnus Nick Greenwood.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, particle physicists at CERN announced they had independently observed a new particle: the Higgs boson. Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role since.

A multi-institutional international team of researchers combined extensive satellite data with ground-level observations to show that the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was unique

Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire.

Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.