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Ultra-delayed material failure via shear banding after straining an amorphous material (2025)
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Lockwood, H. A., Carrington, E. S., & Fielding, S. M. (2025). Ultra-delayed material failure via shear banding after straining an amorphous material. Physical Review E, 112, Article 015404. https://doi.org/10.1103/b64y-61lt

We predict a phenomenon of catastrophic material failure arising suddenly within an amorphous material, with an extremely long delay time since the material was last deformed. By simulating a mesoscopic soft glassy rheology model in one dimension (1D... Read More about Ultra-delayed material failure via shear banding after straining an amorphous material.

Pressure-induced orbital reordering in Na₂CuF₄ (2025)
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Hiley, C. I., Crawford, C. A., Bull, C. L., Funnell, N. P., Dey, U., Bristowe, N. C., Walton, R. I., & Senn, M. S. (2025). Pressure-induced orbital reordering in Na₂CuF₄. Physical Review B, 112, Article 035126. https://doi.org/10.1103/m265-k2p4

The high-pressure behaviour of Na₂CuF₄ is explored by powder neutron diffraction and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. A first-order phase transition is observed to take place between 2.4–2.9 GPa, involving a reorientation of the Jahn-Tel... Read More about Pressure-induced orbital reordering in Na₂CuF₄.

The role of buffer gas in shaping the D1 line spectrum of potassium vapour (2025)
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Alqarni, S. A., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2025). The role of buffer gas in shaping the D1 line spectrum of potassium vapour. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 58, Article 135201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/adea01

In this study, we investigate the effect of buffer gas and magnetic field on the spectral line shapes of the potassium D1 transition using sealed vapour cells filled with varying amounts of neon as a buffer gas. Employing a dual-temperature control s... Read More about The role of buffer gas in shaping the D1 line spectrum of potassium vapour.

Element Nucleosynthetic Origins from Abundance Spatial Distributions beyond the Milky Way (2025)
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Li, Z., Krumholz, M. R., McLeod, A. F., Swinbank, A. M., Wisnioski, E., Mendel, J. T., Belfiore, F., Cresci, G., Venturi, G., & Kang, J.-L. (2025). Element Nucleosynthetic Origins from Abundance Spatial Distributions beyond the Milky Way. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 987(2), Article L28. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ade7fa

An element’s astrophysical origin should be reflected in the spatial distribution of its abundance, yielding measurably different spatial distributions for elements with different nucleosynthetic sites. However, most extragalactic multielement analys... Read More about Element Nucleosynthetic Origins from Abundance Spatial Distributions beyond the Milky Way.

Monopoles at future neutrino detectors (2025)
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Candela, P. M., Khoze, V. V., & Turner, J. (2025). Monopoles at future neutrino detectors. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(7), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282025%29034

We investigate the potential of future neutrino experiments, DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, to probe magnetic monopoles via Callan-Rubakov (CR) processes. We consider both relativistic and non-relativistic monopoles and focus on two primary detection sig... Read More about Monopoles at future neutrino detectors.

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nucleus Mrk 110 (2025)
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Wang, A., An, T., Kellermann, K. I., Feng, H., Bempong-Manful, E. K., Timmerman, R., & Guo, S. (2025). A Relativistic Jet in the Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nucleus Mrk 110. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 987(2), Article L26. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ade14a

We report the discovery of a relativistic jet in Mrk 110, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy historically classified as a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN). Very long baseline interferometry observations reveal intermittent jet activity during 20... Read More about A Relativistic Jet in the Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nucleus Mrk 110.

Galaxy assembly and evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: Galaxy clustering (2025)
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Fontanot, F., De Lucia, G., Xie, L., Hirschmann, M., Baugh, C., & Helly, J. C. (2025). Galaxy assembly and evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: Galaxy clustering. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699, Article A108. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452029

We present the results from the latest version of the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) theoretical model of galaxy formation coupled with merger trees extracted from the Planck Millennium Simulation (PMS). With respect to the Millennium Simulatio... Read More about Galaxy assembly and evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: Galaxy clustering.

Galaxy Zoo CEERS: Bar Fractions Up to z ∼ 4.0 (2025)
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Géron, T., Smethurst, R. J., Dickinson, H., Fortson, L. F., Garland, I. L., Kruk, S., Lintott, C., Makechemu, J. S., Mantha, K. B., Masters, K. L., O’Ryan, D., Roberts, H., Simmons, B. D., Walmsley, M., Calabrò, A., Chiba, R., Costantin, L., Drout, M. R., Fragkoudi, F., Guo, Y., …Pacucci, F. (2025). Galaxy Zoo CEERS: Bar Fractions Up to z ∼ 4.0. The Astrophysical Journal, 987, Article 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add7d0

We study the evolution of the bar fraction in disk galaxies between 0.5 < z < 4.0 using multiband colored images from JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). These images were classified by citizen scientists in a new phase of the... Read More about Galaxy Zoo CEERS: Bar Fractions Up to z ∼ 4.0.

Counterion-Mediated Luminophore Dimerization (2025)
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Carter, A. G., Saha, P. K., Sikder, A., Aguilar, J. A., Monkman, A. P., Avestro, A.-J., Etherington, M. K., & McGonigal, P. R. (online). Counterion-Mediated Luminophore Dimerization. Angewandte Chemie, Article e202505433. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505433

Emissive organic salts have long been integral to the discovery of fluorescence phenomena and functional luminescent dyes. Typically, one component of the salt acts as the photoactive unit (luminophore) and its nonemissive counterion is selected to i... Read More about Counterion-Mediated Luminophore Dimerization.

Counterion‐Mediated Luminophore Dimerization (2025)
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Carter, A. G., Saha, P. K., Sikder, A., Aguilar, J. A., Monkman, A. P., Avestro, A., Etherington, M. K., & McGonigal, P. R. (online). Counterion‐Mediated Luminophore Dimerization. Angewandte Chemie, e202505433. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202505433

Emissive organic salts have long been integral to the discovery of fluorescence phenomena and functional luminescent dyes. Typically, one component of the salt acts as the photoactive unit (luminophore) and its nonemissive counterion is selected to i... Read More about Counterion‐Mediated Luminophore Dimerization.

The Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Properties on the Morphology of Their Central Galaxies from Weak Lensing (2025)
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Liu, Z., Xu, K., Zhang, J., Wang, W., & Liu, C. (2025). The Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Properties on the Morphology of Their Central Galaxies from Weak Lensing. The Astrophysical Journal, 987(4), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add883

Xu & Jing reported a monotonic relationship between the host halo mass Mh and the morphology of massive central galaxies, characterized by the Sérsic index n, at fixed stellar mass, suggesting that morphology could serve as a good secondary proxy for... Read More about The Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Properties on the Morphology of Their Central Galaxies from Weak Lensing.

Scintillation correction on the VLT using tomographic wavefront sensing (2025)
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Hartley, K. E., Haguenauer, P., Wilson, R. W., Morris, T. J., & Osborn, J. (2025). Scintillation correction on the VLT using tomographic wavefront sensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(1), 359-366. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1010

The development of adaptive optics (AO) to correct the effects of optical turbulence has made ground-based telescopes increasingly competitive with those in space. However, AO cannot correct for atmospheric scintillation noise, which severely limits... Read More about Scintillation correction on the VLT using tomographic wavefront sensing.

Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions of Faint Photometric Satellites around Spectroscopic Central Galaxies from DESI Year-1 Bright Galaxy Survey (2025)
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Wang, W., Yang, X., Jing, Y., Ross, A. J., Siudek, M., Moustakas, J., Moore, S. G., Cole, S., Frenk, C., Yu, J., Koposov, S. E., Han, J., Tan, Z., Xu, K., Gu, Y., Wang, Y., Gnedin, O. Y., Aguilar, J. N., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., …Zou, H. (2025). Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions of Faint Photometric Satellites around Spectroscopic Central Galaxies from DESI Year-1 Bright Galaxy Survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 986(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add5df

We measure the luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) of photometric satellite galaxies around spectroscopically identified isolated central galaxies (ICGs). The photometric satellites are from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (D... Read More about Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions of Faint Photometric Satellites around Spectroscopic Central Galaxies from DESI Year-1 Bright Galaxy Survey.

The MillenniumTNG project: impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies (2025)
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Hernández-Aguayo, C., Springel, V., Bose, S., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Barrera, M., Ferlito, F., Pakmor, R., White, S. D. M., Hernquist, L., Delgado, A. M., Kannan, R., & Hadzhiyska, B. (2025). The MillenniumTNG project: impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(4), 3642-3660. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf864

We discuss the cold dark matter plus massive neutrinos simulations of the MillenniumTNG project, which aim to improve understanding of how well ongoing and future large-scale galaxy surveys will measure neutrino masses. Our largest simulations, on a... Read More about The MillenniumTNG project: impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies.

Potential-driven Metal Cycling: JADES Census of Gas-phase Metallicity for Galaxies at 1 < z < 7 (2025)
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Jia, C., Wang, E., Lyu, C., Ma, C., Song, J., Chen, Y., Wang, K., Yu, H., Chen, Z., Wang, J., Wang, Y., & Kong, X. (2025). Potential-driven Metal Cycling: JADES Census of Gas-phase Metallicity for Galaxies at 1 < z < 7. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 986(2), Article L24. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/addfd9

The gravitational potential is established as a critical determinant of gas-phase metallicity (12+log(O/H)) in low-redshift galaxies, whereas its influence remains unconfirmed at high redshifts. We investigate the correlation between gas-phase metall... Read More about Potential-driven Metal Cycling: JADES Census of Gas-phase Metallicity for Galaxies at 1 < z < 7.

Ecological citizen science in schools: a case study of impact on pupils’ connection to nature and knowledge of UK mammals (2025)
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Mason, S. S., Hill, R. A., Whittingham, M. J., Coghill, L., & Stephens, P. A. (online). Ecological citizen science in schools: a case study of impact on pupils’ connection to nature and knowledge of UK mammals. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2025.2515617

Being connected to nature can have many benefits for children, including improved well-being, and more positive attitudes towards the environment. Ecological recording, as part of a citizen science project, may offer new opportunities for children to... Read More about Ecological citizen science in schools: a case study of impact on pupils’ connection to nature and knowledge of UK mammals.

The Compton-thick AGN population and the N H distribution of low-mass AGN in our cosmic backyard (2025)
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Annuar, A., Alexander, D. M., Gandhi, P., Lansbury, G. B., Rosli, M. N., Stern, D., Asmus, D., Ballantyne, D. R., Baloković, M., Bauer, F. E., Boorman, P. G., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Chen, C. T. J., Del Moro, A., Farrah, D., Harrison, F. A., Koss, M. J., Lanz, L., Marchesi, S., …Zappacosta, L. (2025). The Compton-thick AGN population and the N H distribution of low-mass AGN in our cosmic backyard. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(4), 3827-3849. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf956

We present a census of the Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nucleus (AGN) population and the column density () distribution of AGN in our cosmic backyard using a mid-infrared selected AGN sample within 15 Mpc. The column densities are measured from... Read More about The Compton-thick AGN population and the N H distribution of low-mass AGN in our cosmic backyard.

Structural chemistry of the n = 3 Dion–Jacobson phases: controlling polarity and band gap † (2025)
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Ali, A., Cascos, V., Pritchard, F. G., Verlet, J. R. R., Sutherland, N. R., Woolley, J., Lloyd-Hughes, J., Avdeev, M., Beeby, A., Clark, S. J., & McCabe, E. E. (online). Structural chemistry of the n = 3 Dion–Jacobson phases: controlling polarity and band gap †. Journal of Materials Chemistry A: materials for energy and sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ta02587g

The Dion–Jacobson phases are increasingly gaining attention for their photoactivity and potential applications as photocatalysts and sensors, in addition to their polar structures. The structure – composition – property relationships for the n = 3 ph... Read More about Structural chemistry of the n = 3 Dion–Jacobson phases: controlling polarity and band gap †.

Virtually structured illumination for terahertz super-resolution imaging (2025)
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Fleming, J., Downes, L., Girkin, J., & Weatherill, K. (2025). Virtually structured illumination for terahertz super-resolution imaging. Optics Express, 33(12), 26509-26516. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.563675

We demonstrate far-field super-resolution imaging in the terahertz (THz) frequency band by using a structured illumination via the virtually structured detection (VSD) method. Leveraging our previously reported high-speed, high-sensitivity atomic-bas... Read More about Virtually structured illumination for terahertz super-resolution imaging.