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Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he shares the story of oxDNA, the most successful and widely adopted coarse-grained model for DNA self-assembly.

The night of 11-12 December marks 100 years since Edward Appleton’s historic experiment in Oxford, using radio waves to investigate the layers of charged particles in the Earth’s ionosphere.

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

In a study published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the Quantum Magnetism group in the Department of Physics have developed an innovative approach to synthesise and study rare-earth magnetic materials.

The Department of Physics has been given the Athena Swan Gold award having held Athena Swan Silver since 2015. The Athena Swan Charter is a framework to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.

Dr Boon Kok Tan is a senior researcher in astrophysics of the Department of Physics. His ERC research project aims to advance ultra-sensitive instrumentation for microwave, millimetre (mm), sub-mm, and terahertz (THz) frequencies.

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the Multimodal Universe – a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset.

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the European Geosciences Union Jean Dominique Cassini Medal, the EGU’s highest award for recognition of achievement in the planetary sciences.

Climate change could be halted within a generation if the energy companies selling fossil fuels were required to dispose responsibly of the waste CO2 they generate, the climate scientist who led the first work on Net Zero has said.

Professor Michael Johnston has been awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize 2025 for his pioneering research on nanoscale semiconductors and devices across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Professor Philip Burrows has been re-elected Chair of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board at the collaboration's annual meeting that took place in Genoa in October.

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