SmartTrap: Automated Precision Experiments with Optical Tweezers

Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Bustamante | First 5 Authors: Martin Selin, Antonio Ciarlo, Giuseppe Pesce, Lars Bengtsson, Joan Camunas-Soler | Summary: There is a trend in research towards more automation using smart systems powered by artificial intelligence. While experiments are often challenging to automate, they can greatly benefit from automation by reducing labor and increasing reproducibility. […]


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KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Hongyu Li, Jiyuan Zhang, Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung | Summary: We present the discovery and analysis of the sixth microlensing two-planet system, KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c, detected by a follow-up program targeting high-magnification events. Both planets are subject to the well-known ”Close/Wide” degeneracy, although for the first […]


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KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Hongyu Li, Jiyuan Zhang, Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung | Summary: We present the discovery and analysis of the sixth microlensing two-planet system, KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c, detected by a follow-up program targeting high-magnification events. Both planets are subject to the well-known ”Close/Wide” degeneracy, although for the first […]


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From First Draft to Final Insight: A Multi-Agent Approach for Feedback Generation

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Jie Cao, Chloe Qianhui Zhao, Xian Chen, Shuman Wang, Christian Schunn | Summary: Producing large volumes of high-quality, timely feedback poses significant challenges to instructors. To address this issue, automation technologies-particularly Large Language Models (LLMs)-show great potential. However, current LLM-based research still shows room for improvement in […]


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Diverse and Flexible Strategies Enable Successful Cooperation in Marmoset Dyads

Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy | Authors: Olivia C Meisner, Weikang Shi, Amrita Nair, Gargi Nandy, Monika P Jadi, Anirvan S Nandy and Steve W. C. Chang | Summary: In humans, cooperation relies on advanced social cognition, but the extent to which these mechanisms support cooperation in nonhuman primates remains unclear. To investigate this, we examined […]


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Synaptic vesicles that store monoamines and glutamate differ in protein composition.

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Hrach Asmerian, Alexia J. Diaz, Hongfei Xu, Juan A Oses-Prieto, Jacob Alberts, Anna M. Sanetra, Barathan Gnanabharathi, Noah Carr, Alma L. Burlingame, Robert H. Edwards and Katlin Silm | Summary: Neuromodulators such as the monoamines are known to differ from classical neurotransmitters like glutamate in the time scale of […]


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SHELLQs. Bridging the gap: JWST unveils obscured quasars in the most luminous galaxies at z > 6

Kavli Affiliate: John D. Silverman | First 5 Authors: Yoshiki Matsuoka, Masafusa Onoue, Kazushi Iwasawa, Kentaro Aoki, Michael A. Strauss | Summary: The unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a surprisingly abundant population of mildly obscured, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the epoch of reionization (EoR). However, the link […]


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Convex Relaxation for Robust Vanishing Point Estimation in Manhattan World

Kavli Affiliate: Yi Zhou | First 5 Authors: Bangyan Liao, Zhenjun Zhao, Haoang Li, Yi Zhou, Yingping Zeng | Summary: Determining the vanishing points (VPs) in a Manhattan world, as a fundamental task in many 3D vision applications, consists of jointly inferring the line-VP association and locating each VP. Existing methods are, however, either sub-optimal […]


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Lay-Your-Scene: Natural Scene Layout Generation with Diffusion Transformers

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Divyansh Srivastava, Xiang Zhang, He Wen, Chenru Wen, Zhuowen Tu | Summary: We present Lay-Your-Scene (shorthand LayouSyn), a novel text-to-layout generation pipeline for natural scenes. Prior scene layout generation methods are either closed-vocabulary or use proprietary large language models for open-vocabulary generation, limiting their modeling capabilities and […]


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Testing Thermal-Relic Dark Matter with a Dark Photon Mediator

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Gordan Krnjaic, , , , | Summary: In light of recent DAMIC-M results, we present the status of thermal-relic dark matter $chi$ coupled to a kinetically-mixed dark photon $A^prime$. In the predictive "direct annihilation" regime, $m_{A’} > m_chi$, the relic abundance depends on the kinetic mixing parameter, […]


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