Reflecting on the Last Year and Looking to What's Ahead

Read a special collection of articles and hear from Editor-in-Chief Réjean Boivin   View in Browser SUBMIT AN ARTICLE MANAGE MY ALERTS ABOUT THE JOURNAL Review of Scientific Instruments From the Last Year to What's Next As the new year begins, we asked Editor-in-Chief Réjean Boivin to share his reflections on the journal over the past year and what he is looking ahead to for the future.   Creativity and innovation demonstrated through RSI papers in 2025 exemplified how new instruments remain very strong in pushing the limits on how measurements can greatly impact scientific discoveries and open new fields. That can be seen across many scientific areas, such as quantum sensors, fusion development and complex archeology, just to name a few. -Réjean Boivin The Year Ahead: Scientific research has seen a tremendous growth in areas which has benefited from crossfield applications, where state-of-the-art instruments are used in a wide range of fields, sometimes far from their initial deployment. We see that trend rapidly expanding in the years to come, especially in earth sciences and in the deployment of quantum sensors. In addition, new analysis techniques based on machine learning and artificial intelligence will open new doors in extracting science discoveries from a variety of instruments, in some cases already existing. We plan to have special topic editions in those areas in the near future, which will bring forward the recent developments, successes and challenges as applied to a variety of fields. In addition, we are looking at ways to make the knowledge and lessons learned more readily available to readers and to expand our tools for early-career researchers to quickly find the information that could impact their research and to inform a wider audience. We look forward to 2026 and wish you all a very happy new year! - Réjean Boivin Editor-in-Chief, Former Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Diagnostics at General Atomics San Diego, CA, USA Below are highlighted articles from 2025, all freely available to read for a limited time. A study of crosstalk in quantum degeneracy coincidence measurements Arjun Krishnan U. M., Raul Puente, M. A. H. B. Md. Yusoff, Sam Keramati, et al. READ MORE > An atomic beam of titanium for ultracold atom experiments Jackson Schrott, Diego Novoa, Scott Eustice, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn READ MORE > Measurement of Thomson-scattering spectra with continuous angular resolution (invited) J. Katz, R. Boni, A. L. Milder, D. Nelson, et al. READ MORE > High-power test of a C-band linear accelerating structure with an RFSoC-based LLRF system C. Liu, L. Ruckman, R. Herbst, D. Palmer, et al. READ MORE > A pulsed power facility for studying the warm dense matter regime B. Jodar, L. Revello, J. Auperin, G. De Lachèze-Murel, et al. READ MORE > BIFROST—An indirect geometry cold neutron spectrometer at the European Spallation Source Rasmus Toft-Petersen, Gregory S. Tucker, Liam Whitelegg, Kristine Marie Løfgren Krighaar, et al. READ MORE > Controlled partial gravity platform for milligravity in drop tower experiments Kolja Joeris, Matthias Keulen, Jonathan E. Kollmer READ MORE > Rotating waveplate Stokes polarimeter using anisotropic transmittance in waveplate Ryota Imazawa, Shun Kamiya, Yoshihiko Nunoya READ MORE > Application of optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) for future returned Mars samples Nicholas Heinz, Mark S. Anderson, Jerami Mennella, George R. Rossman READ MORE > Introducing new resonant soft x-ray scattering capability in SSRL Cheng-Tai Kuo, Makoto Hashimoto, Heemin Lee, Tan Thanh Huynh, et al. READ MORE > Novel application of neutrinos to evaluate U.S. nuclear weapons performance J. R. Distel, E. C. Dunton, J. M. Durham, A. C. Hayes, et al. READ MORE > A review of the development of instrument and meter inspection robot Linkang Yang, Wan Ma, Wenlong Dai, Xiaoqing Zhao, et al. READ MORE > Long-wave infrared hyperspectral imager based on a scanning Fabry–Pérot interferometer Mads Nibe Larsen, Anders Løchte Jørgensen, Victor Petrunin, Jakob Kjelstrup-Hansen, et al. READ MORE > Tell Us What You Think! Did you like this email? Yes > No >  Follow us on social media   Copyright © 2026 AIP Publishing. All rights reserved. 1305 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville, NY 11747 You are receiving this email because you have opted-in to receive alerts from us. To guarantee delivery of this email please add journals@aip-info.org to your address book and safe senders list. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us then please unsubscribe or amend your settings. Privacy Policy