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Giant Light Emission Enhancement in Strain-Engineered InSe/MS2 (M = Mo or W) van der Waals Heterostructures (2025)
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Blundo, E., Tuzi, F., Cuccu, M., Fiorentin, M. R., Pettinari, G., Patra, A., Cianci, S., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Felici, M., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Patanè, A., Palummo, M., & Polimeni, A. (2025). Giant Light Emission Enhancement in Strain-Engineered InSe/MS2 (M = Mo or W) van der Waals Heterostructures. Nano Letters, 25(9), 3375-3382. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04252

Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures (HSs) offer unlimited possibilities for playing with layer number, order, and twist angle. The realization of high-performance optoelectronic devices, however, requires the achievement of specific band alignments... Read More about Giant Light Emission Enhancement in Strain-Engineered InSe/MS2 (M = Mo or W) van der Waals Heterostructures.

The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at 2.4  ≲  z ≲ 3.0 from UVCANDELS (2025)
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Wang, X., Teplitz, H. I., Smith, B. M., Windhorst, R. A., Rafelski, M., Mehta, V., Alavi, A., Ji, Z., Brammer, G., Colbert, J., Grogin, N., Hathi, N. P., Koekemoer, A. M., Prichard, L., Scarlata, C., Sunnquist, B., Haro, P. A., Conselice, C., Gawiser, E., Guo, Y., …the UVCANDELS team. (2025). The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at 2.4  ≲  z ≲ 3.0 from UVCANDELS. The Astrophysical Journal, 980(1), Article 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada4ab

The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS)survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program, allocated in total 164 orbits of primary Wide-Field Camera 3 Ultraviol... Read More about The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at 2.4  ≲  z ≲ 3.0 from UVCANDELS.

A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis (2025)
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Weilhard, A., Popov, I., Kohlrausch, E. C., Aliev, G. N., Blankenship, L. S., Norman, L. T., Ghaderzadeh, S., Smith, L., Isaacs, M., O'Shea, J., Lanterna, A. E., Theis, W., Morgan, D., Hutchings, G. J., Besley, E., Khlobystov, A. N., & Alves Fernandes, J. (2025). A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis. Chemical Science, 16(11), 4851-4859. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc08253b

The efforts to increase the active surface area of catalysts led to reduction of metal particle size, down to single metal atoms. This results in increasing importance of support-metal interactions. We demonstrate the mechanisms through which the sup... Read More about A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis.

The impact of CLEANing on strong gravitational lens modelling (2025)
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Maresca, J., & Dye, S. (2025). The impact of CLEANing on strong gravitational lens modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(3), 2708-2725. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf161

We present a comparison of image and uv-plane galaxy-galaxy strong lensing modelling results for simulated ALMA observations with different antenna configurations and on-source integration times. Image-plane modelling is carried out via use of the CL... Read More about The impact of CLEANing on strong gravitational lens modelling.

Black holes in multimetric gravity. II. Hairy solutions and linear stability of the non- and partially proportional branches (2025)
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Wood, K., Saffin, P. M., & Avgoustidis, A. (2025). Black holes in multimetric gravity. II. Hairy solutions and linear stability of the non- and partially proportional branches. Physical Review D, 111(2), Article 024057. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.024057

Owing to our work in part I of this series of papers, it is understood that the analytically known black hole solutions in the theory of ghost-free multimetric gravity can be split into three distinct classes and that one of these classes—the proport... Read More about Black holes in multimetric gravity. II. Hairy solutions and linear stability of the non- and partially proportional branches.

Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3 (2025)
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Felton, J., Harknett, J., Page, J., Yang, Z., Alghofaili, N., O’Shea, J. N., Eaves, L., Kohama, Y., Greenaway, M. T., & Patanè, A. (2025). Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3. Nature Communications, 16, Article 922. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56139-8

Ferroelectrics based on van der Waals semiconductors represent an emergent class of materials for disruptive technologies ranging from neuromorphic computing to low-power electronics. However, many theoretical predictions of their electronic properti... Read More about Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3.

Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime: A mathematical framework beyond the Markov approximation (2025)
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Brandner, K. (2025). Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime: A mathematical framework beyond the Markov approximation. Physical Review E, 111(1), Article 014137. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.111.014137

The visible dynamics of small-scale systems are strongly affected by unobservable degrees of freedom, which can belong to either external environments or internal subsystems and almost inevitably induce memory effects. Formally, such inaccessible deg... Read More about Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime: A mathematical framework beyond the Markov approximation.

Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime (2025)
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Brandner, K. (2025). Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime. Physical Review Letters, 134(3), Article 037401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.037101

Memory effects are ubiquitous in small-scale systems. They emerge from interactions between accessible and inaccessible degrees of freedom and give rise to evolution equations that are nonlocal in time. If the characteristic timescales of accessible... Read More about Dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems in the weak-memory regime.

Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits (2025)
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Li, J., Jack, R. L., Bertini, B., & Garrahan, J. P. (2025). Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits. Physical Review B, 111(2), Article 024309. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.024309

We consider how to target evolution conditioned on atypical measurement outcomes in monitored quantum circuits, i.e., the post-selection problem. We show that for a simple class of measurement schemes, post-selected light cone dynamical correlation f... Read More about Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits.

Morphological classification of galaxies through structural and star formation parameters using machine learning (2025)
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Aguilar-Argüello, G., Fuentes-Pineda, G., Hernández-Toledo, H. M., Martínez-Vázquez, L. A., Vázquez-Mata, J. A., Brough, S., Demarco, R., Ghosh, A., Jiménez-Teja, Y., Martin, G., Pearson, W. J., & Sifón, C. (2025). Morphological classification of galaxies through structural and star formation parameters using machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 876-896. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf085

We employ the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning (ML) method for the morphological classification of galaxies into two (early-type, late-type) and five (E, S0–S0a, Sa–Sb, Sbc–Scd, Sd–Irr) classes, using a combination of non-parametr... Read More about Morphological classification of galaxies through structural and star formation parameters using machine learning.

Assessing Water Content of the Human Colonic Chyme Using the MRI Parameter T1: A Key Biomarker of Colonic Function (2025)
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Dellschaft, N., Murray, K., Ren, Y., Marciani, L., Gowland, P., Spiller, R., & Hoad, C. (2025). Assessing Water Content of the Human Colonic Chyme Using the MRI Parameter T1: A Key Biomarker of Colonic Function. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 37(4), Article e14999. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.14999

Background
The human colon receives 2 L of fluid daily. Small changes in the efficacy of absorption can lead to altered stool consistency with diarrhea or constipation. Drugs and formulations can also alter colonic water, which can be assessed using... Read More about Assessing Water Content of the Human Colonic Chyme Using the MRI Parameter T1: A Key Biomarker of Colonic Function.

Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception (2025)
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McGing, J. J., Serres, S., Nicholas, R., Gupta, A., Radford, S. J., Nixon, A. V., Mallinson, J., Bradley, C., Bawden, S., Francis, S. T., Greenhaff, P. L., & Moran, G. W. (2025). Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 19(1), Article jjae194. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/

Background & Objective

IBD fatigue aetiology is poorly understood. This study quantified body composition and physical function alongside proton magnetic resonance imaging (1H MRI) and spectroscopy (31P MRS) measures of organ structure and functio... Read More about Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception.

Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the thermal state of the neutral IGM during reionization (2025)
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Šoltinský, T., Kulkarni, G., Tendulkar, S. P., & Bolton, J. S. (2025). Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the thermal state of the neutral IGM during reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(1), 364-378. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf026

The 21-cm forest signal is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization complementary to other 21-cm line observables and Ly α forest signal. Prospects of detecting it have significantly improved in the last decade thanks to the disco very of more... Read More about Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the thermal state of the neutral IGM during reionization.

Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation (2025)
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Houlgreave, M. S., Dyke, K., Berrington, A., & Jackson, S. R. (2025). Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation. Brain and Behavior, 15(1), Article e70250. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70250

Background: Rhythmic median nerve stimulation (MNS) at 10Hz has been shown to cause a substantial reduction in tic frequency in individuals with Tourette syndrome. The mechanism of action is currently unknown but is hypothesized to involve entrainmen... Read More about Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation.

Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica (2025)
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Barker, T., Gray, A., Weir, M., Sharp, J., Kenton, A., Kudrynskyi, Z., Rostami, H., & Patané, A. (2025). Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica. npj Flexible Electronics, 9, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-024-00375-3

Understanding the bending behaviour of a crystal onto a flexible platform is crucial for flexible electronics. The Young’s modulus, a measure of how easily a material deforms, plays a critical role in the coupled deformation of a crystal on a flexibl... Read More about Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica.

Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey (2025)
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Euclid Collaboration, Böhringer, H., Chon, G., Cucciati, O., Dannerbauer, H., Bolzonella, M., De Lucia, G., Cappi, A., Moscardini, L., Giocoli, C., Castignani, G., Hatch, N. A., Andreon, S., Bañados, E., Ettori, S., Fontanot, F., Gully, H., Hirschmann, M., Maturi, M., Mei, S., …Verza, G. (2025). Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, Article A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451683

Galaxy proto-clusters are receiving increased interest since most of the processes shaping the structure of clusters of galaxies and their galaxy population happen at the early stages of their formation. The Euclid Survey will provide a unique opport... Read More about Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey.

The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey (2024)
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Holwerda, B. W., Robertson, C., Cook, K., Pimbblet, K., Casura, S., Sansom, A. E., Patel, D., Butrum, T. A., Glass, D. H. W., Kelvin, L. S., Baldry, I. K., De Propris, R., Bamford, S., Masters, K., Stone, M. B., Hardin, T., Walmsley, M., Liske, J., & Adnan, S. R. (2024). The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, Article e115. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2024.109

Galaxy Zoo is an online project to classify morphological features in extra-galactic imaging surveys with public voting. In this paper, we compare the classifications made for two different surveys, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ima... Read More about The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey.

Reproducibility of machine learning analyses of 21 cm reionization maps (2024)
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Sooknunan, K., Chapman, E., Conaboy, L., Mortlock, D. J., & Pritchard, J. R. Reproducibility of machine learning analyses of 21 cm reionization maps. Manuscript submitted for publication

Machine learning (ML) methods have become popular for parameter inference in cosmology, although their reliance on specific training data can cause difficulties when applied across different data sets. By reproducing and testing networks previously u... Read More about Reproducibility of machine learning analyses of 21 cm reionization maps.

Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243 (2024)
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Grishin, K. A., Mei, S., Chilingarian, I. V., Lepore, M., Tozzi, P., Gonzalez, A., Hatch, N., Stanford, S. A., & Wylezalek, D. (2025). Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, 11. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452091

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe and therefore are a powerful tool for studying mass assembly at different epochs. At z > 2, they provide the unique opportunity to place solid constraints not only on th... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243.