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2024 selections

Extending fruit shelf life with sustainable nanofibre coatings opens in new tab/window Research published in Hybrid Advances

Caption: An unprotected and a coated orange after 13 days. Credit: Poornima Vijayan

Extending fruit shelf life

Coordinating risk assessments for radiation in outer space opens in new tab/window Research published in Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik

Caption: Astronauts are highly vulnerable to cosmic radiation. Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licensed. Credit: NASA

Coordinating risk assessments for radiation in outer space

Combining graphene and nanodiamonds for better microplasma devices opens in new tab/window Research published in Fundamental Plasma Physics

Caption: Combining nanodiamonds with laser-induced graphene. Credit: K J Sankaran

Combining graphene and nanodiamonds for better microplasma devices

Modelling hydrogen fuel tanks for heavy-duty trucks opens in new tab/window Research published in Cryogenics

Caption: Refuelling a hydrogen vehicle, Creative Commons 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licensed Credit: Ogidya

Cryogenics fuel tank

Cells grown in microgravity show 3D structures that could be used in medicine opens in new tab/window Research published in Life Sciences in Space Research

Caption: An illustration shows an astronaut on the Artemis III mission planned for 2026. Credit: NASA opens in new tab/window

Cells grown in microgravity show 3D structures that could be used in medicine

Agricultural waste could help to clean polluted water opens in new tab/window Research published in Applied Surface Science Advances Caption: Rice husks are a natural biosorbent Credit: Green (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Agricultural waste could help to clean polluted water

Investigating plasma deviations inside nuclear fusion reactors opens in new tab/window Research published in Fundamental Plasma Physics

Caption: Plasma confined inside a tokamak Credit: Xiang Gao et. al. This file has been extracted from another file, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85521357 opens in new tab/window

Investigating plasma deviations inside nuclear fusion reactors

“Glitches” of rapidly spinning neutron star pulsars can be a source of gravitational waves opens in new tab/window Research published in Astroparticle Physics

Caption: An illustration of a pulsar neutron star’s interior erupting through its crust Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ S. Wiessinger

ns magnetar starquake

Improving fingerprint detection with carbon-coated nanoparticles opens in new tab/window Research published in Hybrid Advances Caption: Powders from new nanomaterial can produce highly detailed fingerprint images Credit: Photo by George Prentzas opens in new tab/window on Unsplash opens in new tab/window

Powders from new nanomaterial can produce highly detailed fingerprint images

Improving Maglev performance with machine learning opens in new tab/window Research published in Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Caption: Measuring levitation and lateral forces Credit: Erkan Ozkat

maglev

New Chemical Synthesis Technique Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency opens in new tab/window Research published in Organic Electronics

Caption: The polyelectrolyte layer (PFN-NDI) exchanges ions with its surroundings Credit: Joo Hyun Kim

Solar cell

Einstein’s other theory of gravity could have the recipe to relieve ‘Hubble trouble’ opens in new tab/window Research published in Physics of the Dark Universe

Caption: An illustration of distant quasar, supermassive black hole-powered objects that can be used to constrain the parameters of theories of gravity Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Einsteins other theory of gravity could have the recipe to relieve Hubble trouble

Black holes created in mergers carry information about their ancestors opens in new tab/window Research published in Astroparticle Physics

Caption: A swirling black hole that hides within the characteristics of the black holes that merged to create it Credit: Robert Lea

Black holes created in mergers carry information about their ancestors

Squeezing Schrödinger’s cat may increase quantum sensitivity opens in new tab/window Research published in Physics Open

Caption: Neither dead nor alive or maybe both, Schrödinger's cat floats in space, waiting for its box to open and its fate to manifest Credit: Robert Lea

Squeezing Schrödinger’s cat may increase quantum sensitivity

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