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A random walk model for the evolution of the halo spin vector (2025)
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Hou, J., Luo, Z., & Lacey, C. G. (2025). A random walk model for the evolution of the halo spin vector. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1), 961-972. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf752

We follow the spin vector evolutions of well resolved dark matter haloes (containing more than 300 particles) in merger tree main branches from the Millennium and Millennium-II N-body simulations, from to . We find that there seems to be a characteri... Read More about A random walk model for the evolution of the halo spin vector.

Electronic structure calculations for muon spectroscopy (2025)
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Blundell, S. J., Bonacci, M., Bonfà, P., De Renzi, R., Huddart, B. M., Lancaster, T., Liborio, L. M., Onuorah, I. J., Pizzi, G., Pratt, F. L., & Wilkinson, J. M. (2025). Electronic structure calculations for muon spectroscopy. Electronic Structure, 7(2), Article 023001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075/adcb7c

Muon spectroscopy has become a leading tool for the investigation of local magnetic fields in condensed matter physics, finding applications in the study of superconductivity, magnetism, ionic diffusion in battery materials, and numerous other fields... Read More about Electronic structure calculations for muon spectroscopy.

PAC in DESI. I. Galaxy stellar mass function into the 106 M⊙ frontier (2025)
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Xu, K., Jing, Y. P., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Bose, S., Elbers, W., Wang, W., Wang, Y., Moore, S., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Dey, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. G. A., Gutierrez, G., …Zou, H. (2025). PAC in DESI. I. Galaxy stellar mass function into the 106 M⊙ frontier. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2), 1635-1667. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf782

The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis (2025)
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McAlpine, S., Jasche, J., Ata, M., Lavaux, G., Stiskalek, R., Frenk, C. S., & Jenkins, A. (2025). The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1), 716-745. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf767

We present the first results from the Manticore Project, dubbed Manticore-Local, a suite of Bayesian constrained simulations of the nearby Universe, generated by fitting a physical structure formation model to the 2M++ galaxy catalogue using the borg... Read More about The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis.

Hot leptogenesis (2025)
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Baker, M. J., Bhatnagar, A., Croon, D., & Turner, J. (2025). Hot leptogenesis. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025, Article 82. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282025%29082

We investigate a class of leptogenesis scenarios in which the sector containing the lightest right-handed neutrino establishes kinetic equilibrium at a temperature TN1 > TSM, where TSM is the temperature of the Standard Model sector. We study the reh... Read More about Hot leptogenesis.

The unabridged satellite luminosity function of Milky Way-like galaxies in ΛCDM: the contribution of ‘orphan’ satellites (2025)
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Santos-Santos, I. M. E., Frenk, C. S., Navarro, J. F., Cole, S., & Helly, J. (2025). The unabridged satellite luminosity function of Milky Way-like galaxies in ΛCDM: the contribution of ‘orphan’ satellites. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf749

We study the abundance, radial distribution, and orbits of luminous satellites in simulations of Milky Way-mass dark haloes in the cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. We follow the evolution of a halo from the Aquarius project and the formation of its... Read More about The unabridged satellite luminosity function of Milky Way-like galaxies in ΛCDM: the contribution of ‘orphan’ satellites.

Pressure-induced enhancement of polar distortions in a metal and implications for the Rashba spin splitting (2025)
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Ladbrook, E., Dey, U., Bristowe, N. C., Perry, R. S., Daisenberger, D., Warren, M. R., & Senn, M. S. (2025). Pressure-induced enhancement of polar distortions in a metal and implications for the Rashba spin splitting. Physical Review B, 111(20), Article 205110. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.205110

Polar metals are an intriguing class of materials that feature a polar crystal structure while also exhibiting metallic conductivity. The unique properties of polar metals challenge expectations, making way for the exploration of exotic phenomena suc... Read More about Pressure-induced enhancement of polar distortions in a metal and implications for the Rashba spin splitting.

Deep Photometric Observations of Ultrafaint Milky Way Satellites Centaurus I and Eridanus IV (2025)
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Casey, Q. O., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Sand, D. J., Pace, A. B., Crnojević, D., Doliva-Dolinsky, A., Cerny, W., Heiger, M. E., Riley, A. H., Ji, A. P., Limberg, G., Marin, L., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., Medina, G. E., Li, T. S., Campana, S. N., Chaturvedi, A., Sakowska, J. D., Zenteno, A., Carballo-Bello, J. A., …Bom, C. R. (2025). Deep Photometric Observations of Ultrafaint Milky Way Satellites Centaurus I and Eridanus IV. The Astrophysical Journal, 984(2), Article 148. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc67e

We present deep Magellan+Megacam imaging of Centaurus I (Cen I) and Eridanus IV (Eri IV), two recently discovered Milky Way ultrafaint satellites. Our data reach ∼2–3 mag deeper than the discovery data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey.... Read More about Deep Photometric Observations of Ultrafaint Milky Way Satellites Centaurus I and Eridanus IV.

Axion bounds from quantum technology (2025)
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Bauer, M., Chakraborti, S., & Rostagni, G. (2025). Axion bounds from quantum technology. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025, Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282025%29023

A consistent treatment of the quantum field theory of an axion-like particle (ALP) interacting with Standard Model fields requires to account for renormalisation group running and matching to the low-energy theory. Quantum sensor experiments designed... Read More about Axion bounds from quantum technology.

FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure (2025)
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McCarthy, I. G., Amon, A., Schaye, J., Schaan, E., Angulo, R. E., Salcido, J., Schaller, M., Bigwood, L., Elbers, W., Kugel, R., Helly, J. C., Forouhar Moreno, V. J., Frenk, C. S., McGibbon, R. J., Ondaro-Mallea, L., & van Daalen, M. P. (2025). FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf731

Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on Mpc scales, potentially biasing the values of cosmological parameters inferred... Read More about FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure.

Filamin C dimerisation is regulated by HSPB7 (2025)
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Wang, Z., Cao, G., Collier, M. P., Qiu, X., Broadway-Stringer, S., Šaman, D., Ng, J. Z. Y., Sen, N., Azad, A. J., Hooper, C., Zimmermann, J., McDonough, M. A., Brem, J., Rabe, P., Song, H., Alderson, T. R., Schofield, C. J., Bolla, J. R., Djinovic-Carugo, K., Fürst, D. O., …Benesch, J. L. P. (2025). Filamin C dimerisation is regulated by HSPB7. Nature Communications, 16, Article 4090. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58889-x

The biomechanical properties and responses of tissues underpin a variety important of physiological functions and pathologies. In striated muscle, the actin-binding protein filamin C (FLNC) is a key protein whose variants causative for a wide range o... Read More about Filamin C dimerisation is regulated by HSPB7.

Euclid: I. Overview of the Euclid mission (2025)
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Euclid Collaboration, Mellier, Y., Abdurro’uf, Acevedo Barroso, J. A., Achúcarro, A., Adamek, J., Adam, R., Addison, G. E., Aghanim, N., Aguena, M., Ajani, V., Akrami, Y., Al-Bahlawan, A., Alavi, A., Albuquerque, I. S., Alestas, G., Alguero, G., Allaoui, A., Allen, S. W., Allevato, V., …Zumalacarregui, M. (2025). Euclid: I. Overview of the Euclid mission. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 697, Article A1. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450810

The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients,
dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Euclid is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 programme... Read More about Euclid: I. Overview of the Euclid mission.

Dynamics of a helical vortex ring interacting with a vortex line (2025)
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Bai, W.-K., Yang, X., Zhu, H., Gardiner, S. A., Liu, W.-M., & Yang, T. (2025). Dynamics of a helical vortex ring interacting with a vortex line. Communications Physics, 8(1), Article 183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02109-x

Helical vortex rings are intriguing flow phenomena observed in both classical and quantum fluids, playing a crucial role in the examination of turbulence. Despite significant research dedicated to understanding their dynamics, studies on the interact... Read More about Dynamics of a helical vortex ring interacting with a vortex line.

Multifunctional benzonitrile derivatives with TADF and mechanofluorochromic properties and their application in OLEDs † (2025)
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Maggiore, A., Qu, Y., Clavier, G., Colella, M., Danos, A., Monkman, A., Guillot, R., Pugliese, M., Prontera, C. T., Giannuzzi, R., Mariano, F., Carallo, S., Accorsi, G., Maiorano, V., Audebert, P., Metivier, R., & Miomandre, F. (online). Multifunctional benzonitrile derivatives with TADF and mechanofluorochromic properties and their application in OLEDs †. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tc04347b

In this study, we explore the solid-state photophysical properties of four donor–acceptor–donor′ (D–A–D′) fluorinated benzonitrile compounds, featuring combinations of phenoxazine and carbazole donor units. We have previously shown that these compoun... Read More about Multifunctional benzonitrile derivatives with TADF and mechanofluorochromic properties and their application in OLEDs †.

Efficient search for extremely metal-poor galaxies in the local universe using convolutional neural networks (2025)
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Cheng, T.-Y., & Cooke, R. J. (2025). Efficient search for extremely metal-poor galaxies in the local universe using convolutional neural networks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1), 128-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf690

Nearby extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPs) allow us to study primitive galaxy formation and evolution in greater detail than is possible at high redshift. This work promotes the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to efficiently search for X... Read More about Efficient search for extremely metal-poor galaxies in the local universe using convolutional neural networks.

Precise Predictions for Event Shapes in Diphoton Production at the LHC (2025)
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Buccioni, F., Chen, X., Feng, W. J., Gehrmann, T., Huss, A., & Marcoli, M. (2025). Precise Predictions for Event Shapes in Diphoton Production at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 134(17), Article 171901. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.171901

Photon pair production is an important benchmark process at the LHC, entering Higgs boson studies and new physics searches. It has been measured to high accuracy, allowing for detailed studies of event shapes in diphoton final states. To enable preci... Read More about Precise Predictions for Event Shapes in Diphoton Production at the LHC.

On the impulse approximation in electron Compton scattering (2025)
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Mendis, B. G. (2025). On the impulse approximation in electron Compton scattering. Ultramicroscopy, 273, Article 114153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2025.114153

Electronic structure measurement via Compton scattering requires the impulse approximation to be satisfied. This states that the inelastic collision time is short, so that the ‘secondary’ electron ejected out of the atom is effectively free of the cr... Read More about On the impulse approximation in electron Compton scattering.

Bridging the gap: OPTICAM reveals the hidden spin of the WZ Sge star GOTO 065054.49+593624.51 (2025)
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Castro Segura, N., Irving, Z. A., Vincentelli, F. M., Altamirano, D., Tampo, Y., Knigge, C., Pelisoli, I., Coppejans, D. L., Rawat, N., Castro, A., Sahu, A., Santisteban, J. V. H., Kimura, M., Veresvarska, M., Michel, R., Scaringi, S., & Najera, M. R. (2025). Bridging the gap: OPTICAM reveals the hidden spin of the WZ Sge star GOTO 065054.49+593624.51. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 541(1), L28-L34. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf038

WZ Sge stars are highly evolved accreting white dwarf systems (AWDs) exhibiting remarkably large amplitude outbursts (also known as superoutbursts), typically followed by short rebrightenings/echo outbursts. These systems have some of the lowest mass... Read More about Bridging the gap: OPTICAM reveals the hidden spin of the WZ Sge star GOTO 065054.49+593624.51.

Local mapping of the nanoscale viscoelastic properties of fluid membranes by AFM nanorheology (2025)
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Trewby, W., Tavakol, M., & Voïtchovsky, K. (2025). Local mapping of the nanoscale viscoelastic properties of fluid membranes by AFM nanorheology. Nature Communications, 16, Article 3842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59260-w

Biological membranes are intrinsically dynamic entities that continually adapt their biophysical properties and molecular organisation to support cellular function. Current microscopy techniques can derive high-resolution structural information of la... Read More about Local mapping of the nanoscale viscoelastic properties of fluid membranes by AFM nanorheology.

Biomimetic polypropylene-carbon intra-ply hybrid 3d woven composite with enhanced impact resistance (2025)
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Weatherburn, A., Montgomery, C., Scott, G., Ralph, C., Girkin, J., McGarrigle, C., McIlhagger, A., Archer, E., & Szyniszewski, S. (2025). Biomimetic polypropylene-carbon intra-ply hybrid 3d woven composite with enhanced impact resistance. Composite Structures, 366, Article 119177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2025.119177

In this study, a nacre-inspired carbon-polypropylene 3D woven composite is developed. The biomimetic ’brick-and-mortar’ design is implemented by interlacing softer polypropylene yarns with brittle carbon fibres. This novel composite was benchmarked a... Read More about Biomimetic polypropylene-carbon intra-ply hybrid 3d woven composite with enhanced impact resistance.