NIRCam yells at cloud: JWST MIRI imaging can directly detect exoplanets of the same temperature, mass, age, and orbital separation as Saturn and Jupiter

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Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Rachel Bowens-Rubin, James Mang, Mary Anne Limbach, Aarynn L. Carter, Kevin B. Stevenson | Summary: NIRCam and MIRI coronagraphy have successfully demonstrated the ability to directly image young sub-Jupiter mass and mature gas-giant exoplanets. However, these modes struggle to reach the sensitivities needed to find the population […]


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Anti-amyloid antibody equilibrium binding to Aβ aggregates from human Alzheimer disease brain

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: P Monroe Butler, Anna Francis, Angela L Meunier, Amirah K Anderson, Elizabeth L Hennessey, Michael B Miller, Cynthia A Lemere, Dennis J Selkoe and Andrew M Stern | Summary: Importance Anti-amyloid immunotherapy is used to treat Alzheimer disease (AD) with moderate benefits and potentially serious side effects due to […]


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Gaplessness from disorder and quantum geometry in gapped superconductors

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Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | First 5 Authors: Omri Lesser, Sagnik Banerjee, Xuepeng Wang, Jaewon Kim, Ehud Altman | Summary: It is well known that disorder can induce low-energy Andreev bound states in a sign-changing, but fully gapped, superconductor at $pi-$junctions. Generically, these excitations are localized. Starting from a superconductor with a sign-changing and nodeless […]


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On the creation of narrow AI: hierarchy and nonlocality of neural network skills

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Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Eric J. Michaud, Asher Parker-Sartori, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: We study the problem of creating strong, yet narrow, AI systems. While recent AI progress has been driven by the training of large general-purpose foundation models, the creation of smaller models specialized for narrow domains could be […]


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Shared and distinct cortical mechanisms for working memory and decision-making.

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Kavli Affiliate: Daeyeol Lee | Authors: Hyojung Seo, Daeyeol Lee and Shanna K Murray | Summary: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP) in the primate brain are critically involved in working memory during tasks that require the retention of information over a delay. These same regions have also been implicated in […]


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Repetitive Levodopa Treatment Drives Cell Type-Specific Striatal Adaptations Associated With Progressive Dyskinesia in Parkinsonian Mice

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Kavli Affiliate: Alexandra Nelson | Authors: Rodrigo M Paz, Michael B Ryan, Pamela F Marcott, Allison E Girasole, Joseph Faryean, Vincent Duong, Sadhana Sridhar and Alexandra B Nelson | Summary: The use of levodopa to manage Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms leads to levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) and other motor fluctuations, which worsen with disease progression and […]


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A Novel Benchmark and Dataset for Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting with Gaussian Point Cloud Compression

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Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Kangli Wang, Shihao Li, Qianxi Yi, Wei Gao, | Summary: Recently, immersive media and autonomous driving applications have significantly advanced through 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which offers high-fidelity rendering and computational efficiency. Despite these advantages, 3DGS as a display-oriented representation requires substantial storage due to its numerous […]


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AsynFusion: Towards Asynchronous Latent Consistency Models for Decoupled Whole-Body Audio-Driven Avatars

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Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Tianbao Zhang, Jian Zhao, Yuer Li, Zheng Zhu, Ping Hu | Summary: Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital entertainment, and remote communication. […]


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Superconducting vacancy-ordered rock-salt NbO films

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Kavli Affiliate: Joseph Falson | First 5 Authors: Jeong Rae Kim, Sandra Glotzer, Evan Krysko, Matthew R. Barone, Jinkwon Kim | Summary: We report molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of vacancy-ordered rocksalt NbO thin films which display superconductivity. A comparative study of substrates identifies Al$_2$O$_3$ (0001) as the optimal platform for realizing high-quality, single-phase films when […]


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