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Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue:
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
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▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
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Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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January 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
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January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
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The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
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January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Client Challenge
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January 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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Happy birthday to Nature Reviews Methods Primers! 🎂
This month, we are celebrating 5 years of Nature Reviews Methods Primers with a variety of Comments and Q&As that address recent advancements in methods!
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Happy birthday to Nature Reviews Methods Primers! 🎂
Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue:
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue:
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
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"What’s exciting is that we have the ability to search for asteroids, predict if one might hit us, and actually do something about it. So it’s cool science, and we can defend ourselves," says Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA ⚛️🔭🧪
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Inside the International Asteroid Warning Network - Nature Reviews Physics
Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA, describes the global network working to detect and assess asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"What’s exciting is that we have the ability to search for asteroids, predict if one might hit us, and actually do something about it. So it’s cool science, and we can defend ourselves," says Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA ⚛️🔭🧪
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This is relevant for a lot of physicists too: how much e-waste is out there? What happens to it? How could we handle it better? ⚛️
📢What happens to all the electronic waste coming from computing? @sophurky.bsky.social investigates this issue is a recent News Feature. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ArtificialIntelligence
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The afterlife of 20 million AI chips - Nature Computational Science
Data-center operators try to recycle retired hardware, but a broken global recycling infrastructure stands in the way.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is relevant for a lot of physicists too: how much e-waste is out there? What happens to it? How could we handle it better? ⚛️
Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available pathways is essential to meeting national quantum ambitions, argue Josephine Hunout, Shey Dylan Lovett, Jessica Wade & Isabella von Holstein ⚛️
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Quantum training in the UK needs better visibility - Nature Reviews Physics
Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available training and career pathways will expand and strengthen the quantum workforce and is essential to meetin...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available pathways is essential to meeting national quantum ambitions, argue Josephine Hunout, Shey Dylan Lovett, Jessica Wade & Isabella von Holstein ⚛️
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I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and government-funded science
Nature Reviews Physics - Over its 350 years of history, the establishment and evolution of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, reflects the history of scientific institutions in Britain.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
Pascal Puphal, Thomas Schäfer, Bernhard Keimer & Matthias Hepting summarize progress in research on superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates ⚛️
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Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates - Nature Reviews Physics
Nickelates have recently joined the cuprates and iron pnictides as unconventional superconductors with transition temperatures above 80 K. This Review looks for their shared superconducting mechanisms...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pascal Puphal, Thomas Schäfer, Bernhard Keimer & Matthias Hepting summarize progress in research on superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates ⚛️
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Yi Cui (崔一), Zewen Zhang, Robert Sinclair, Wah Chiu & Yi Cui (崔屹) look at sample preparation methods and imaging strategies to enable high-resolution imaging of beam-sensitive materials while avoiding electron-beam damage ⚛️
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Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials - Nature Reviews Physics
This Technical Review highlights advances in cryo-electron microscopy for materials science, covering sample preparation, low-dose imaging and analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy tech...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yi Cui (崔一), Zewen Zhang, Robert Sinclair, Wah Chiu & Yi Cui (崔屹) look at sample preparation methods and imaging strategies to enable high-resolution imaging of beam-sensitive materials while avoiding electron-beam damage ⚛️
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Dominik Kraus, Thomas R. Preston & Ulf Zastrau provide an overview of experimental techniques and summarize the past decade of XFEL research on warm dense matter ⚛️
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Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers - Nature Reviews Physics
Warm dense matter — the peculiar state between condensed matter and hot plasma — can be studied with exceptional detail at X-ray free-electron laser facilities. This Review summarizes pioneering exper...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Dominik Kraus, Thomas R. Preston & Ulf Zastrau provide an overview of experimental techniques and summarize the past decade of XFEL research on warm dense matter ⚛️
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And Ankita Anirban on a paper reporting evidence of Cooper pairs in an anomalous metallic state (4/4)
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Cooper pairs in a metallic state - Nature Reviews Physics
An article in Physical Review Letters reports evidence that Cooper pairs exist in an anomalous metallic state.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And Ankita Anirban on a paper reporting evidence of Cooper pairs in an anomalous metallic state (4/4)
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Zoe Budrikis on how ideas from active matter can help explain the workings of a rare tropical carnivorous plant (3/4)
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Ratchet effect helps explain how a carnivorous plant predates - Nature Reviews Physics
A paper in PNAS shows how ideas from the physics of active matter can help explain the workings of a rare carnivorous plant.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Zoe Budrikis on how ideas from active matter can help explain the workings of a rare tropical carnivorous plant (3/4)
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May Chiao on some intriguing but not yet compelling evidence that the expansion history of the Universe deviates from the simple ΛCDM picture (2/4)
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A changing of the guard for dark energy? - Nature Reviews Physics
Nature Reviews Physics - A changing of the guard for dark energy?
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
May Chiao on some intriguing but not yet compelling evidence that the expansion history of the Universe deviates from the simple ΛCDM picture (2/4)
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It's December, so our editors picked some papers we enjoyed reading this year and wrote about them 🧵⚛️
Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4)
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Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4)
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The sound of ionization - Nature Reviews Physics
A paper in Optica shows how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's December, so our editors picked some papers we enjoyed reading this year and wrote about them 🧵⚛️
Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4)
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Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4)
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A timeline cleanse for your Thursday: all our pretty 2025 covers 😍⚛️🧪
Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite?
(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A timeline cleanse for your Thursday: all our pretty 2025 covers 😍⚛️🧪
Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite?
(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite?
(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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(We can't choose just one)
Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs
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Our December reviews:
⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy
☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics
🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light
📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research
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⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy
☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics
🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light
📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research
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December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Our December reviews:
⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy
☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics
🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light
📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research
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⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy
☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics
🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light
📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research
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Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as structural and societal challenges, according to a Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics. 🔒
How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare - Nature Reviews Physics
Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as structural and societal challenges.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as structural and societal challenges, according to a Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics. 🔒
How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare
A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens
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A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens
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How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare - Nature Reviews Physics
Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as str...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare
A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens
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A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens
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Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI
A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues
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A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues
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Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI - Nature Reviews Physics
Traditional approaches in complexity science struggle to capture emergent phenomena, but abductive reasoning — now computationally feasible through artificial intelligence — offers a new pathway for d...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI
A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues
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A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues
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Review: Ultrafast physics with structured light ⚛️
by Yiqi Fang, Zijian Lyu & Yunquan Liu
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by Yiqi Fang, Zijian Lyu & Yunquan Liu
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Ultrafast physics with structured light - Nature Reviews Physics
Spatiotemporal structuring of optical fields offers opportunities to probe and control electron motions in light–matter interactions. This Review discusses the recent advances in both fundamental phys...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Review: Ultrafast physics with structured light ⚛️
by Yiqi Fang, Zijian Lyu & Yunquan Liu
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by Yiqi Fang, Zijian Lyu & Yunquan Liu
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Review: Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics ⚛️
by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou
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by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou
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Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics - Nature Reviews Physics
Our understanding of how heavy elements form within stars is incomplete. This Review highlights the emerging role of the intermediate neutron-capture process (i process) — between the slow and rapid p...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Review: Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics ⚛️
by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou
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by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou
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