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The European Physical Journal (EPJ) is a series of peer-reviewed journals covering the whole spectrum of physics and related interdisciplinary subjects. EPJ is committed to high scientific quality in publishing and is indexed in all main citation databases.
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EPJ E Colloquium - Human lungs fluid mechanics: an overview of current modelling techniques
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- Published on 13 May 2026
Human breathing is governed by fluid mechanics across several regimes that span over a wide range of length and time scales: from turbulent airflow in the upper airways to slow interfacial motion in the smallest bronchioles and alveoli. At the same time, air motion is coupled to deformable tissue, mucus transport, surfactant dynamics, gas exchange, and, in disease, airway narrowing or liquid plugging. This makes the lung a demanding test case for modern multiphysics modelling.
EPJ ST Highlight - Improved technique could reveal beyond standard model particles in CERN detector
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- Published on 13 May 2026
A technique combining liquid thin films and machine vision could help researchers cut through the optical noise obscuring potential tracks of as-yet unobserved particles in CERN's MoEDAL detector
The Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC (MoEDAL) is an experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is aiming to observe a variety of particles not described by the Standard Model. So far, however, the scope of its measurement abilities has been held back by the techniques used to measure the tracks left behind by energetic particles.
In a new study published in EPJ Special Topics (EPJ ST), Matti Kalliokoski at the University of Helsinki, Finland, presents a new approach to processing the foil used in this measurement. His method could make it far easier for researchers to detect the subtle tracks left behind by as-yet unobserved particles – potentially bringing their long-awaited measurement a step closer to reality.
EPJ E Highlight - EPJ E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics – the past and the future
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- Published on 08 May 2026
A new editorial in EPJ E reflects on the journal’s role in uniting diverse soft-matter communities, and anticipates the challenges of maintaining interdisciplinary dialogue as the field expands.
Soft matter encompasses a diverse array of structures, including liquid crystals, polymers and biopolymers, and even living cells and tissues. While they are often complex, all of these materials display extremely strong responses to weak perturbations, including mechanical, chemical, and electrical influences. Increasingly, these properties are being explored across a vast array of applications, driving deeper questions about how the fascinating behaviour of soft materials is linked to their constituent molecular parts.
First founded in 2000, EPJ E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics has long been a cornerstone of soft matter research. In one of the first papers of the EPJ E 25th Anniversary Collection: Past Insights, Present Voices, Future Horizons, Jean‑François Joanny at Collège de France, together with Günter Reiter at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, reflect on its prolific past while anticipating the challenges and opportunities it will likely face in the future.
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Open calls for papers
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EPJ AM Call for papers: Themed Issue on Global Advances in Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Space
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Call for papers : Special Issue on Imaging, Diffraction, and Spectroscopy on the micro/nanoscale
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EPJ C Topical Collection on String theory predictions for astroparticle and collider physics, and beyond
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EPJE Topical issue : The European Physical Journal E 25th Anniversary Collection: Past Insights, Present Voices, Future Horizons
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EPJ Plus Focus Point: Marine Citizen Science – Applications, Processes, and Data Integration
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