The second issue of the Natural Science Review international scientific journal features two major reviews and two research articles on computer science, biology, condensed matter physics, and mathematical physics.

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The work of an employee of the Laboratory of Information Technologies at JINR Alexander Uzhinskiy entitled “Efficient pipeline for plant disease classification” is devoted to improving the effectiveness of identifying and treating plant pathologies using images. A significant increase in the number of disease classes requires applying new architectures and learning approaches in experiments. The published study suggests using the ConvNeXt architecture and the loss function titled Large Margin Cosine Loss for recognising 46 different plant pathologies. The improved model learning algorithm is already implemented in the DoctorP platform, significantly enhancing the accuracy and reliability of diagnosis.

In the review article titled “Lipid membrane destabilisation induced by amyloid-beta peptide in the systems mimicking preclinical Alzheimer’s disease”, a team of researchers (Sergei Kurakin, Oleksandr Ivankov, Tatiana Murugova, Norbert Kucerka, Dina Badreeva, Alexander Kuklin, Ermuhammad Dushanov, Elena Ermakova) presented a discussion of research into lipid-peptide interactions in conditions simulating the asymptomatic stage of the pathology. The observed interactions could offer valuable insights into the mechanisms of the beta-amyloid peptide’s destructive effect on lipid membranes and subsequent Alzheimer’s onset. The authors note that applied nuclear physics methods proved to be highly relevant in such studies, facilitating the acquisition of detailed information about biomembranes’ interactions and dynamics at the molecular level.

The “New classical Hall-type effect in the absence of magnetic field” article by scientists of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at JINR Erkin Alpomishev, Gurgen Adamian, and Nikolai Antonenko focuses on the issues of non-Markovian two-dimensional dynamics of charge carriers in a dissipative non-magnetic medium. The authors propose a new classical Hall effect in the absence of a magnetic field. Along with thermomagnetic and galvanomagnetic phenomena, the authors predict the existence of thermodissipative and galvanodissipative phenomena.

In his review entitled “Quantum groups and Yang-Baxter equations”, a BLTP JINR researcher Alexey Isaev discusses a wide range of issues related to quantum group theory, which is the newest section of symmetry theory that emerged in the study of the models of quantum integrable systems. The key topics are the concepts of quantum groups and quantum algebras, the application of the R-matrix approach to classical and quantum Lie groups, and trigonometric solutions of the Yang-Baxter equations, as well as their rational limits. In addition, the author highlights certain aspects of noncommutative differential geometry, the braid and knot theory, and applications of quantum groups and Yang-Baxter equations in various fields of theoretical physics.

Articles for the third issue of Natural Science Review (April – June 2025), as well as materials for the journal’s special issue dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, are now being accepted.

Natural Science Review is an international peer-reviewed online scientific journal published by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research since December 2024. Quarterly issues of Natural Science Review cover a wide range of scientific topics: physics, fundamental and applied research, interdisciplinary research, mathematical and computer sciences, life sciences, Earth sciences, chemistry, etc.