MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, September 11, 2026 — NEW HORIZON PRESS LIMITED took part in the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2026, held from 9 to 11 September at The Manchester Deansgate Hotel, joining publishers, learned societies, librarians, funders and technology partners from across the scholarly communications community.

Lodging, the bending and breaking of plant stems, is a primary threat to global rapeseed production, causing significant yield losses and complicating mechanical harvesting. 

A research team has developed a neural network-based framework that significantly improves the prediction of satellite clock bias (SCB) for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, addressing a major challenge for next-generation navigation systems. 

Glomerella leaf spot (GLS), caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is a major threat to apple production worldwide, causing severe defoliation and fruit necrosis.

With the increasingly urgent demand for non-toxic, high-specific-impulse propellants in space propulsion systems, ammonium dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid propellants have attracted extensive attention as a new-generation green alternative to hydrazine-based fuels. However, existing ADN-based thrusters all adopt the catalytic ignition technology route, which suffers from inherent drawbacks: the catalyst cannot withstand temperatures exceeding 1500 K, long preheating times are required prior to startup (in the Prisma mission, in-flight preheating lasted 600–720 s with a single-event energy consumption of 25 kJ), and insufficient preheating may lead to "hard start" or even explosion—these issues severely constrain the rapid response capability and operational safety of the thrusters. Although active ignition methods such as resistive ignition and laser ignition have been validated at the single-droplet level, how to achieve catalyst-free electric ignition at the thruster system level and systematically evaluate its combustion characteristics remains a critical engineering problem urgently to be addressed in the field of green space propulsion.