Computational Design and Fabrication of Modular Robots with Untethered Control

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Manas Bhargava, Manas Bhargava, , , | Summary: Natural organisms use distributed actuation via their musculoskeletal systems to adapt their gait for traversing diverse terrains or to morph their bodies to perform varied tasks. A longstanding challenge in the field of robotics is to mimic this extensive […]


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Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails

Kavli Affiliate: Harry A. Atwater | First 5 Authors: Matthew F. Campbell, Matthew F. Campbell, , , | Summary: Achieving laser-driven, reflective, relativistic light sails would represent a tremendous breakthrough for humankind, allowing us to advance our understanding of the solar system and deep space far beyond what we know from space probes, telescopes, and […]


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Model Accuracy and Data Heterogeneity Shape Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Fei Shuang, Fei Shuang, , , | Summary: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable accurate atomistic modelling, but reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) remains elusive. In this study, we investigate two UQ strategies, ensemble learning and D-optimality, within the atomic cluster expansion framework. It is revealed that higher […]


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Cell Cycle Arrest of a “Zippering” Epithelial Cell Cluster Shapes the Face and is Disrupted in Craniofacial Disorders

Kavli Affiliate: Georgia Panagiotakos | Authors: Tiange Qu, Brandon H Chacon, Louis Faure, Marta Losa, Rocio Hernandez-Martinez, Kelsey Robinson, Aragorn Jones, Steven Lisgo, Maurizio Risolino, Jaiden De Anda, Georgia Panagiotakos, Elizabeth J Leslie-Clarkson, Igor Adameyko and Licia Selleri | Summary: Facial features identify individuals, but the mechanisms shaping the human face remain elusive. Orofacial clefting […]


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Simulating high-temperature superconductivity in moiré WSe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Yiyu Xia, Yiyu Xia, , , | Summary: The emergence of high transition temperature (Tc) superconductivity in strongly correlated materials remains a major unsolved problem in physics. High-Tc materials, such as cuprates, are generally complex and not easily tunable, making theoretical modelling difficult. Although the Hubbard model–a […]


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FastCSP: Accelerated Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction with Universal Model for Atoms

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Vahe Gharakhanyan, Vahe Gharakhanyan, , , | Summary: Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of molecular crystals plays a central role in applications, such as pharmaceuticals and organic electronics. CSP is challenging and computationally expensive due to the need to explore a large search space with sufficient accuracy to […]


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MAPseq2: a sensitive and cost-effective barcoded connectomics method

Kavli Affiliate: Justus M Kebschull | Authors: Hyopil Kim, Huihui Qi, Craig Washington, Xiaoping Liang and Justus M Kebschull | Summary: The barcoded connectomics tool MAPseq enables highly multiplexed projection mapping of individual neurons by translating neuroanatomy into a DNA sequencing problem. Here we present MAPseq2, a user-friendly protocol with 3-4 fold increased barcode detection […]


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Heterochromatin-based silencing of a foreign tandem repeat in Drosophila melanogaster shows unusual biochemistry and temperature sensitivity

Kavli Affiliate: Elena Gracheva | Authors: Tingting Gu, Elena Gracheva, Michael Lee, Wilson M Leung, Sophia Bieser, Alixandria Nielsen, Adam T. Smiley, Nhi N.T. Vuong, Matthias Walther, Gunter Reuter, Sarah C.R. Elgin and Andrew M Arsham | Summary: Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into chromatin, a regulatory nucleoprotein assembly. Establishment, maintenance, and interconversion of chromatin states […]


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MMBERT: Scaled Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal BERT for Robust Chinese Hate Speech Detection under Cloaking Perturbations

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Qiyao Xue, Qiyao Xue, , , | Summary: Hate speech detection on Chinese social networks presents distinct challenges, particularly due to the widespread use of cloaking techniques designed to evade conventional text-based detection systems. Although large language models (LLMs) have recently improved hate speech detection capabilities, the […]


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YOLO-Count: Differentiable Object Counting for Text-to-Image Generation

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Guanning Zeng, Guanning Zeng, , , | Summary: We propose YOLO-Count, a differentiable open-vocabulary object counting model that tackles both general counting challenges and enables precise quantity control for text-to-image (T2I) generation. A core contribution is the ‘cardinality’ map, a novel regression target that accounts for variations […]


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