Our Centre for Advanced Instrumentation recently hosted an event dedicated to celebrating and supporting women in STEM. Speakers from across the globe came to Durham to share inspirational stories from their impressive careers, showing how they came to be where they are today.

An international team of astronomers led by our world-class Physics department has reported the first detection of a rotating disc structure around a forming high-mass star outside of our Milky Way in another galaxy.

A new single-person meeting pod was opened for use in the Ogden Centre West (OCW) building.

In the last decade, the UK space industry has transformed into one of UK’s fastest growing industrial sectors.

A member of Durham Physics technical support staff has been announced as the winner of a prestigious ‘Technician Award’ for 2023 by the Institute of Physics.

We’re home to a new £10m supercomputer that will help scientists around the world investigate the mysteries of the Universe.

Dr Phil Gregory from the Quantum Light and Matter (QLM) research group has recently been awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and is now the recipient of the 2023 Institute of Physics Bates prize for outstanding research by an early career researcher.

The whole Condensed Matter Physics research section (CMP) in Physics at Durham came together for an Away Day at Ushaw House for training and development activities to strengthen our research capabilities and support career progression.

Our top-rated Physics department has made significant contributions to an innovative international project that's shedding new light on the mysteries of our universe.

Researchers in our top-rated Physics department are world-leading experts in their field.

We’re part of an international team of cosmologists who’ve discovered that observations of gravitational waves might reveal the true nature of dark matter.

Physics students’ success from across the region has been celebrated at the recent School Physicist of the Year (SPotY) awards.