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The particle flow physics of granular materials such as gravel, chemical powders, and agricultural grains is relevant to both natural processes, such as avalanches and landslides, and industrial processes like pharmaceutical processing and mining. #Scilight

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September 23, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Electron spin resonance (ESR) probes transitions between spin states of unpaired electrons induced by radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields. #Scilight

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September 23, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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To complete our Inaugural Issue posts🌟. The EiC’s Preface highlights the 5 key articles and shares the vision that inspired this new journal.
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Preface
Scilight Press is an international academic publisher dedicated to open-access peer-reviewed journals and books. As a global multidisciplinary publisher, we provide a platform for researchers, scholar...
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September 20, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Excited for our latest work, from Huanzhu (Harper) Jiang, documenting how mechanical stress and genetics affects cardiomyocyte-cardiac fibroblast crosstalk in engineered heart muscle: doi.org/10.1063/5.03.... Check out the article and accompanying SciLight. Congrats Harper et al!
September 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is a valuable tool for analyzing surface composition, providing material spectra, hyperspectral maps, and depth profiles. However, the sheer volume of data can make analysis difficult. #Scilight

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Optimizing ToF-SIMS data analysis with survey-then-target workflow
ToF-SIMS generates mountains of data, and developing analysis tools to sort through it can give researchers faster and more precise results.
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September 14, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Quantum entanglement, whereby particles become inextricably linked regardless of their locations, is central to quantum communication, computing, and metrology. #Scilight

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Building a better foundation for future quantum technology
Time-bin multiplexing reduces physical resource requirements and control complexity
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September 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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@stelladees.bsky.social et al.'s work on THG in pigments is featured in #Scilight @aip.bsky.social
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September 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Mapping blood flow is an important part of monitoring many vascular-related diseases, and the most common method employed is laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI). #Scilight

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September 11, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Many environmental flow processes, including river and coastal sediment transport, snow transport, and erosion processes, involve multiple particles comprising a particulate bed. #Scilight

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September 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Weather can be highly volatile, making extreme events difficult to predict and model. #Scilight

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September 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Most people can identify what makes music groovy — it has a swing to it, something that makes you want to tap your feet or snap your fingers. #Scilight

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Can you feel the groove?
Studies on the “just-noticeable differences” of timing in groove reveal the thresholds for human perception.
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September 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Covering the upper and lower surfaces of a bird’s wings are a set of feathers, called covert feathers, which improve flight aerodynamics. #Scilight

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September 3, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Recreating the hollow structures of the heart, stomach, and other vital organs is crucial for accurately modeling disease, but current approaches depend on self-organizing cells and offer little control over the final shape. #Scilight

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Building better organ models, one collagen sphere at a time
A new fabrication method sidesteps self-organization to create uniform, cell-lined hollow tissues.
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September 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Quantum holography encodes images through pairs of entangled photons. This technique and other quantum imaging applications require two-photon coincidence imaging, a technique that retrieves spatial information about the entangled photons. #Scilight

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September 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Despite its longstanding ubiquity, fundamental aspects of glass remain mysterious. For example, researchers have struggled to establish a quantitative theory of glass transition that connects energy flow, or thermodynamics. #Scilight

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September 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Pistachio shells, wood shavings, cow manure — it’s easy to think of such substances as waste. #Scilight

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Understanding biomass solid fuels as a renewable energy source
Different fuels require different processing methods and serve varied purposes.
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August 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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As an alternative to industrial fluidization for processing coarse particles, the “spouted bed” technique, which features a high-velocity central gas jet, emerged in the middle of the last century. #Scilight

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Advancing the promise of conical spouted beds for coarse particle processing
Study probes hydrodynamics and gas-solid interactions to produce optimized design principles.
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August 26, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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In a perfect world, different types of plastics would be kept separate from the time of their disposal to their polymer recovery, but the recycling story that many people are taught is optimistic. #Scilight

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Dynamic crosslinks: The future of plastic recycling
Simulations show dynamic crosslinks between two polymers improve miscibility and decrease surface tension.
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August 26, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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It is unclear to historians how Vikings navigated the seas. Centuries before magnetic compasses were introduced to Europe, Viking seafarers traveled long distances to far-flung locations like North America and the Black Sea. #Scilight

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Follow the Vikings: A student exercise in optics and navigation inspired by history
Vikings may have used the sky’s polarization as a navigation tool. Making similar measurements helps students connect science with real life.
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August 25, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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High-performance and shallow-water vessels often rely on waterjet propulsors, which move ships by sucking in water from underneath the hull, accelerating it with a pump, and shooting it out the back as a high-speed jet. #Scilight

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Propelling flow simulations forward for waterjet propulsors
Ship turning and air ingestion hinder the performance of waterjet propulsors.
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August 20, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Some of the fastest fish in the ocean, including jackfish and barracudas, are part of a group known as the carangiforms. These fish have powerful tail fins, or caudal fins, that help propel them to immense speeds. #Scilight

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In some cases, being passive gives fish an advantage
Incorporating passive movements into tail strokes can improve efficiency.
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August 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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In December 2022, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) successfully imploded a capsule of deuterium and tritium fuel to trigger nuclear fusion, generating more energy than was input. #Scilight

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A look back at over a decade of inertial confinement fusion experiments
The team at the National Ignition Facility discusses the advancements that led them to ignition — and their ideas for what comes next.
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August 19, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Superconducting circuits such as quantum circuits require protection from incident optical or infrared radiation originating from leaks or higher-temperature stages in cryogenic setups. #Scilight

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Sapphire sphere-based resin efficiently filters wide range of noise in superconducting circuits
Drawing the scattering of plane waves by homogeneous spheres in Mie theory, material lets photons at gigahertz frequencies pass through while blocking noise wit
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August 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Today's post from SciLight is a poignant tribute to the importance of finding gratitude in the people and moments in your life and the lessons they teach you—whether about science or not. scilight.substack.com/p/gratitude-...
Gratitude for the Gifts My Dad Gave Me
I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately, and have previously written about it on SciLight here. The science behind gratitude is well established. But my reflections on gratitude this week are ...
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August 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Congratulations to Johnson's group for their new publication, a Scilight "Computational chemistry's rocky revolution"

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Computational chemistry’s rocky revolution
A look back at the history of density functional theory explores why the idea was slow to be adopted in chemistry.
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August 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM