Oxford University’s Kai Kornhuber and colleagues have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production.
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10 December 2019
Astronomer Suzanne Aigrain from the Physics Department at Oxford University has been awarded almost 2 million Euros from the European Research Council to develop novel data analysis techniques that are essential to find Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars.
2 December 2019
In order to successfully tackle climate change, Professor Tim Palmer from Oxford University and Professor Bjorn Stevens from the Max Planck Society argue that we must invest in an ambitious new multi-national modelling strategy to further our knowledge of climate science – they are calling for a climate change equivalent of CERN.
Bold initiatives are needed
25 November 2019
Noah Waterfield Price, a joint DPhil student between the University of Oxford and the Diamond Light source, was awarded the PANalytical Thesis Prize in Physical Crystallography on November 4th, 2019 at Milton Hill House near Abingdon. The Malvern PANalytical Thesis Prize in Physical Crystallography is awarded every year for the best use of techniques or methods of Physical Crystallography in a successfully examined thesis submitted in the previous 2 years.
22 November 2019
Scientists at Oxford University’s Physics Department have developed a new way to simulate quantum systems of many particles to allow for the investigation of the dynamic properties of quantum systems. It is based on a long-known alternative formulation of quantum mechanics which now has been empowered to allow the study of large quantum systems.
22 November 2019
A team of researchers from the Physics Department at Oxford University and their collaborators have developed a new method that allows extremely rapid detection of pathogenic viruses – in as little as one minute – which is significantly faster than existing diagnostic tests.
21 November 2019
The University of Oxford has received a grant of £1.2m to provide essential contributions to the DUNE experiment. This is part of the latest UK multi-million pound investment in the DUNE global science project that brings together the scientific communities of the UK and 31 countries from Asia, Europe and the Americas to build the world’s most advanced neutrino observatory. The DUNE project has the potential to lead to profound changes in our understanding of the universe.
21 November 2019
Astronomers at Oxford University’s Physics Department have been involved in the first-ever detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) by a ground-based high-energy telescope. The GRB, likely associated with the catastrophic explosion of a massive star, was first detected on January 14, 2019, by the orbiting Swift and Fermi satellites.
A major breakthrough
20 November 2019
The observed acceleration of the Hubble expansion rate has been attributed to a mysterious ‘dark energy’ which supposedly makes up about 70% of the universe.
20 November 2019
Observers from the ThunderKAT project, co-led by Professor Rob Fender at Oxford University and Professor Patrick Woudt at the University of Cape Town, have discovered the first of what promises to be a bumper harvest of variable and transient radio sources in images from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
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