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Nonlinear free-decay oscillations of a magnetically levitated air bubble in water produced by coalescence (2025)
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Hunter-Brown, G., Sampara, N., Scase, M. M., & Hill, R. (2025). Nonlinear free-decay oscillations of a magnetically levitated air bubble in water produced by coalescence. Physical Review Fluids, 10, Article 083601. https://doi.org/10.1103/qxcs-8t7l

Magnetic levitation is used for the first time to study freely suspended air bubbles in water, in particular the transient nonlinear shape oscillations of bubbles newly formed from the coalescence of two parent bubbles. Since we find that this method... Read More about Nonlinear free-decay oscillations of a magnetically levitated air bubble in water produced by coalescence.

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
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Mohammadi-Nejad, A.-R., Craig, M., Cox, E., Chen, X., Jenkins, R. G., Francis, S., Sotiropoulos, S. N., & Auer, D. P. (2025). Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Communications, 16, Article 6411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61033-4

Abstract
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic on brain health is recognised, yet specific effects remain understudied. We investigate the pandemic’s impact on brain ageing using longitudinal neuroimaging data from the UK Biobank. Brain... Read More about Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The multidimensional relationship between alpha oscillations and cognition. (2025)
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Lenartowicz, A., Coleman, S. C., Zink, N., & Mullinger, K. J. (2025). The multidimensional relationship between alpha oscillations and cognition. Imaging Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.96

Alpha oscillations are a robust neurophysiological phenomenon associated with cortical suppression and synaptic input gating, functionally interpreted as a mechanism of selective attention. Here we highlight known dissociations between alpha oscillat... Read More about The multidimensional relationship between alpha oscillations and cognition..

A XRISM Observation of the Archetypal Radio-Mode Feedback System Hydra-A: Measurements of Atmospheric Motion and Constraints on Turbulent Dissipation (2025)
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Rose, T., Mcnamara, B., Meunier, J., Fabian, A., Russell, H., Nulsen, P., Dizdar, N., Heckman, T. M., Mcdonald, M., Markevitch, M., Paerels, F., Simionescu, A., Werner, N., Coil, A. L., Hodges-Kluck, E., Miller, E. D., & Wise, M. (in press). A XRISM Observation of the Archetypal Radio-Mode Feedback System Hydra-A: Measurements of Atmospheric Motion and Constraints on Turbulent Dissipation. Astrophysical Journal,

We present XRISM Resolve observations centered on Hydra-A, a redshift z = 0.054 brightest cluster galaxy which hosts one of the largest and most powerful FR-I radio sources in the nearby Universe. We examine the effects of its high jet power on the v... Read More about A XRISM Observation of the Archetypal Radio-Mode Feedback System Hydra-A: Measurements of Atmospheric Motion and Constraints on Turbulent Dissipation.

The impact of uncertainty estimation on radiomic segmentation reproducibility and scan–rescan repeatability in kidney MRI (2025)
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Damiano, R., Lanzarone, E., Lussana, F., Villa, G., Daniel, A. J., Francis, S., Caroli, A., & Scalco, E. (2025). The impact of uncertainty estimation on radiomic segmentation reproducibility and scan–rescan repeatability in kidney MRI. Medical Physics, 52(7), Article e17995. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.17995

Background: Radiomics holds great potential but is hindered by segmentation and scan-rescan variability, which affect the reproducibility and repeatability of radiomic analysis, respectively. Recently, deep learning (DL) has shown promise in improv-... Read More about The impact of uncertainty estimation on radiomic segmentation reproducibility and scan–rescan repeatability in kidney MRI.

The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (2025)
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Schneider, A. C., Vrba, F. J., Bruursema, J., Munn, J. A., Irwin, M., Read, M., Varricatt, W., Kerr, T., Hodapp, K., Dye, S., Williams, S. J., Cenko, A. T., Tilleman, T. M., Murison, M. A., Rothberg, B., Dahm, S., Dorland, B., Lawrence, A., & Chambers, K. C. (2025). The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey. Astronomical Journal, 170(2), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ade43c

This paper describes the second and third data releases (DR2 and DR3, respectively) from the ongoing United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Hemisphere Survey (UHS). DR2 is primarily comprised of the K-band portion of the UHS survey, and was released to th... Read More about The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey.

Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices (2025)
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Heaton, C. E. D., Austin, J. S., Ruer, L., Cottam, N. D., Wang, F., He, Y., Rance, G. A., Rose, F. R. A. J., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R. J. M., Makarovsky, O., & Turyanska, L. (2025). Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices. Advanced Materials Technologies, Article e00913. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202500913

Inkjet-printing of graphene (iGr) onto flexible and stretchable electronics has significant potential for environmental sensing and healthcare monitoring applications. However, conventional thermal annealing techniques often require high temperatures... Read More about Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices.

Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning (2025)
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Hoad, C., Knarr, M., Aliyu, A., Mougin, O., Paul, J., & Marciani, L. (2025). Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning. NMR in Biomedicine, 38(8), Article e70090. https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70090

Sodium alginates are widely used for their gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties. Raft-producing formulations have been used widely for many years to treat the symptoms of anti-reflux disease and those suffering occasional symptoms. The aim... Read More about Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning.

Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies (2025)
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Gaston, K., Mohammad, A., Venkatachalapathy, S. V., Notingher, I., Gordon, G. S. D., Arora, A., Rawson, F. J., Grove, J. I., Mukherjee, A., Gomez, D., Jayaraman, P.-S., & Aithal, G. P. (2025). Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies. Cancers, 17(14), Article 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17142301

In the management of cholangiocarcinoma, effective biliary drainage and accurate diagnosis are vital to allow further treatment. Confirmation of tissue diagnosis and molecular characterization is also required to guide future treatment options includ... Read More about Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies.

Effect of haemodialysis on the brain and heart assessed using multiparametric MRI (2025)
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Cox, E. F., Gullapudi, V. R. L., Buchanan, C. E., White, K., Nicholas, R., Canaud, B., Taal, M. W., Selby, N. M., & Francis, S. T. (2025). Effect of haemodialysis on the brain and heart assessed using multiparametric MRI. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Article gfaf117. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfaf117

Background and hypothesis
Haemodialysis (HD) patients often develop cognitive impairment, negatively impacting health-related quality of life. We use brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures to study the acute changes in cerebral water conte... Read More about Effect of haemodialysis on the brain and heart assessed using multiparametric MRI.

Cold Gas and Star Formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST (2025)
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Reefe, M., Mcdonald, M., Chatzikos, M., Seebeck, J., Mushotzky, R., Veilleux, S., Allen, S. W., Bayliss, M., Calzadilla, M., Canning, R., Donahue, M., Floyd, B., Gaspari, M., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Mcnamara, B., Russell, H., Sarkar, A., Sharon, K., & Somboonpanyakul, T. (in press). Cold Gas and Star Formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST. Astrophysical Journal,

We present integral field unit observations of the Phoenix Cluster with the JWST Mid-infrared Instrument's Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MIRI/MRS). We focus this study on the molecular gas, dust, and star formation in the brightest cluster galaxy (... Read More about Cold Gas and Star Formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST.

The effect of oral feeding on gastrointestinal function, motility and appetite-regulating hormones, insulin, glucose and satiety in normal weight individuals and those with obesity (2025)
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Simpson, E. J., Althubeati, S., Cordon, S., Hoad, C., Bush, D., Eldeghaidy, S., Gowland, P. A., Macdonald, I. A., & Lobo, D. N. (2025). The effect of oral feeding on gastrointestinal function, motility and appetite-regulating hormones, insulin, glucose and satiety in normal weight individuals and those with obesity. Clinical Nutrition, 52, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2025.07.008

Background and aims
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ingestion of a standardized meal on gastric content volume and gastric emptying time in healthy normal weight people and those with obesity. Secondary aims were to evalu... Read More about The effect of oral feeding on gastrointestinal function, motility and appetite-regulating hormones, insulin, glucose and satiety in normal weight individuals and those with obesity.

Multilevel quantum Rabi models (2025)
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Doicin, T., Armour, A., & Tufarelli, T. (2025). Multilevel quantum Rabi models. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 58, Article 315203. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aded50

The quantum Rabi model, which describes the interaction between a simplified atom and a mode of the electromagnetic field, is a cornerstone of modern quantum optics. One of the key assumptions of the model is that the `atom' is a perfect two-level sy... Read More about Multilevel quantum Rabi models.

Uncovering the neural correlates of the urge-to-blink: A study utilising subjective urge ratings and paradigm free mapping (2025)
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Houlgreave, M. S., Uruñuela, E., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Gowland, P., Dyke, K., Brandt, V., Mohammed, I., Sanchez Panchuelo, R., & Jackson, S. (2025). Uncovering the neural correlates of the urge-to-blink: A study utilising subjective urge ratings and paradigm free mapping. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, Article IMAG.a.84. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.84

Neuroimaging plays a significant role in understanding the neurophysiology of Tourette syndrome (TS), in particular the main symptom, tics, and the urges associated with them. Premonitory urge is thought to be a negative reinforcer of tic expression... Read More about Uncovering the neural correlates of the urge-to-blink: A study utilising subjective urge ratings and paradigm free mapping.

Cosmic reflections I: the structural diversity of simulated and observed low-mass galaxy analogues (2025)
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Martin, G., E Watkins, A., Dubois, Y., Devriendt, J., Kaviraj, S., Kim, D., Kraljic, K., Lazar, I., R Pearce, F., Peirani, S., Pichon, C., Slyz, A., & K Yi, S. (2025). Cosmic reflections I: the structural diversity of simulated and observed low-mass galaxy analogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(2), 1831-1850. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1092

Dwarf galaxies serve as powerful laboratories for investigating the underlying physics of galaxy evolution including the impact of baryonic feedback processes and external environmental influences. We compare the visual and structural properties of d... Read More about Cosmic reflections I: the structural diversity of simulated and observed low-mass galaxy analogues.

Galaxies in the simulated cosmic web: I. Filament identification and their properties (2025)
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BAHE, Y., & JABLONKA, P. (in press). Galaxies in the simulated cosmic web: I. Filament identification and their properties. Astronomy and Astrophysics,

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments through cosmolog... Read More about Galaxies in the simulated cosmic web: I. Filament identification and their properties.

Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice (2025)
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Powell, S., & Pal, S. (2025). Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice. Physical Review Letters, 134(25), Article 256701. https://doi.org/10.1103/b9gd-y4y6

We present a dynamic scaling theory to describe relaxation dynamics following a magnetic-field quench near an unconventional phase transition in the magnetic material spin ice. Starting from a microscopic model, we derive an effective description for... Read More about Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice.

Fast and accurate implementation of the effective fluid approximation for ultralight axions (2025)
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Moss, A., Gaughan, L., & Green, A. M. (2025). Fast and accurate implementation of the effective fluid approximation for ultralight axions. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 111(12), Article 123530. https://doi.org/10.1103/fy1y-rjst

We present a numerically efficient and accurate implementation of the Passaglia-Hu effective fluid approximation for ultralight axions (ULAs) within the Boltzmann code CAMB. This method is specifically designed to evolve the axion field accurately ac... Read More about Fast and accurate implementation of the effective fluid approximation for ultralight axions.

Deeper multi-redshift upper limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal power spectrum from LOFAR between z=8.3 and z=10.1 (2025)
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Mertens, F. G., Mevius, M., Koopmans, L. V. . E., Offringa, A. R., Zaroubi, S., Acharya, A., Brackenhoff, S. A., Ceccotti, E., Chapman, E., Chege, K., Ciardi, B., Ghara, R., Ghosh, S., Giri, S. K., Hothi, I., Höfer, C., Iliev, I. T., Jelić, V., Ma, Q., Mellema, G., …Yatawatta, S. (2025). Deeper multi-redshift upper limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal power spectrum from LOFAR between z=8.3 and z=10.1. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 698, Article A186. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554158+

We present new upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts í µí± § ≈ 10.1, 9.1, and 8.3, based on reprocessed observations from the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The analysis incorporates signific... Read More about Deeper multi-redshift upper limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal power spectrum from LOFAR between z=8.3 and z=10.1.

The NExpo Study: A protocol of behavioural, physiological, and neuroimaging measures to assess the effects of noise exposure on the auditory pathway (2025)
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Dewey, R. S., Guest, H., Millman, R. E., Prendergast, G., Plack, C. J., & Francis, S. T. (2025). The NExpo Study: A protocol of behavioural, physiological, and neuroimaging measures to assess the effects of noise exposure on the auditory pathway. Aperture Neuro, 5, https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.140461

Background: Noise exposure is the main cause of preventable hearing loss worldwide. Findings from animal studies suggest that even moderate noise exposure can cause substantial damage to the cochlear nerve without any noticeable hair cell damage. Cru... Read More about The NExpo Study: A protocol of behavioural, physiological, and neuroimaging measures to assess the effects of noise exposure on the auditory pathway.