An engineered biosensor enables dynamic aspartate measurements in living cells

Kavli Affiliate: Timothy Brown | Authors: Kristian Davidsen, Jonathan S Marvin, Abhi Aggarwal, Timothy A Brown and Lucas B Sullivan | Summary: Intracellular levels of the amino acid aspartate are responsive to changes in metabolism in mammalian cells and can correspondingly alter cell function, highlighting the need for robust tools to measure aspartate abundance. However, […]


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Population encoding of stimulus features along the visual hierarchy

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Stryker | Authors: Luciano Dyballa, Andra M Rudzite, Mahmood S Hoseini, Mishek Thapa, Michael P Stryker, Greg D Field and Steven W Zucker | Summary: The retina and primary visual cortex (V1) both exhibit diverse neural populations sensitive to diverse visual features. Yet it remains unclear how neural populations in each area […]


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An observational upper limit on the rate of gamma-ray bursts with neutron star-black hole merger progenitors

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Sylvia Biscoveanu, Eric Burns, Philippe Landry, Salvatore Vitale, | Summary: Compact-object binary mergers consisting of one neutron star and one black hole (NSBHs) have long been considered promising progenitors for gamma-ray bursts, whose central engine remains poorly understood. Using gravitational-wave constraints on the population-level NSBH mass and […]


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An observational upper limit on the rate of gamma-ray bursts with neutron star-black hole merger progenitors

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Sylvia Biscoveanu, Eric Burns, Philippe Landry, Salvatore Vitale, | Summary: Compact-object binary mergers consisting of one neutron star and one black hole (NSBHs) have long been considered promising progenitors for gamma-ray bursts, whose central engine remains poorly understood. Using gravitational-wave constraints on the population-level NSBH mass and […]


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Optical Identification of the Shortest-Period Spider Pulsar System M71E

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Zhuokai Liu, Subo Dong, , , | Summary: M71E is a spider pulsar (i.e., a millisecond pulsar with a tight binary companion) with the shortest known orbital period of P=53.3 min discovered by Pan et al. (2023). Their favored evolutionary model suggests that it bridges between two […]


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Optical Identification of the Shortest-Period Spider Pulsar System M71E

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Zhuokai Liu, Subo Dong, , , | Summary: M71E is a spider pulsar (i.e., a millisecond pulsar with a tight binary companion) with the shortest known orbital period of P=53.3 min discovered by Pan et al. (2023). Their favored evolutionary model suggests that it bridges between two […]


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A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Xinyan Hua, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske, Tianjun Gan, Avi Shporer | Summary: We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of 2.8 days, and the radial velocity (RV) measurements constrain the […]


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A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Xinyan Hua, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske, Tianjun Gan, Avi Shporer | Summary: We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of 2.8 days, and the radial velocity (RV) measurements constrain the […]


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Hill-top inflation from Dai-Freed anomaly in the standard model — A solution to the iso-curvature problem of the axion dark matter

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Kawasaki | First 5 Authors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, , , | Summary: The discrete symmetry $Z_4$ in the standard model (SM) with three right-handed neutrinos is free from the Dai-Freed anomaly. Motivated by this $Z_4$ symmetry, we constructed a topological inflation model consistent with all known constraints and observations. However, […]


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Single-shot 3D photoacoustic computed tomography with a densely packed array for transcranial functional imaging

Kavli Affiliate: Lihong V. Wang | First 5 Authors: Rui Cao, Yilin Luo, Jinhua Xu, Xiaofei Luo, Ku Geng | Summary: Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is emerging as a new technique for functional brain imaging, primarily due to its capabilities in label-free hemodynamic imaging. Despite its potential, the transcranial application of PACT has encountered hurdles, […]


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