“Industrial-Scale” Black Hole Selection without a Satellite

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Zexuan Wu, Zexuan Wu, , , | Summary: The forthcoming GRAVITY+ instrument promises to usher in an era of "industrial-scale" mass measurements of isolated black holes (BHs), with the potential to assemble a sample of many tens of BHs via interferometric microlensing over several years. A key […]


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MitoScribe single-cell molecular recorder logs graded signaling dynamics into mitochondrial DNA

Kavli Affiliate: Seth Shipman | Authors: Linhan Wang, Nikolaos Poulis, Deepak Srivastava and Seth Shipman | Summary: Genetically encoded DNA recorders convert transient biological events into stable genomic mutations, offering a means to reconstruct past cellular states. However, current approaches to log historical events by modifying genomic DNA have limited capacity to record the magnitude […]


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A milliarcsecond localization associates FRB 20190417A with a compact, luminous persistent radio source and an extreme magneto-ionic environment

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui | First 5 Authors: Alexandra M. Moroianu, Alexandra M. Moroianu, , , | Summary: We report the milliarcsecond localization of a high (1379 pc/cc) dispersion measure (DM) repeating fast radio burst, FRB 20190417A. Combining European VLBI Network detections of five repeat bursts, we confirm the FRB’s host to be a […]


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XRISM observations of solar flare X-ray emission reflected in the Earth’s atmosphere

Kavli Affiliate: Eric Miller | First 5 Authors: Hiromasa Suzuki, Hiromasa Suzuki, , , | Summary: The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched into low-Earth orbit in 2023, observes the reflection of solar flare X-rays in the Earth’s atmosphere as a by-product of celestial observations. Using a $sim$one-year data set covering from October 2023 […]


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Fishing for Answers: Exploring One-shot vs. Iterative Retrieval Strategies for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Kavli Affiliate: Gang Su | First 5 Authors: Huifeng Lin, Huifeng Lin, , , | Summary: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based on Large Language Models (LLMs) is a powerful solution to understand and query the industry’s closed-source documents. However, basic RAG often struggles with complex QA tasks in legal and regulatory domains, particularly when dealing with […]


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Optomechanical method for characterizing thermal transport across van der Waals interfaces

Kavli Affiliate: Herre S. J. Van Der Zant | First 5 Authors: Hanqing Liu, Hanqing Liu, , , | Summary: For the development of nanoscale electronics and photonics using atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, it is important to realize van der Waals (vdW) interfaces with low thermal resistance, to minimize performance reduction caused by heat […]


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A Study of Large Language Models for Patient Information Extraction: Model Architecture, Fine-Tuning Strategy, and Multi-task Instruction Tuning

Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Cheng Peng, Cheng Peng, , , | Summary: Natural language processing (NLP) is a key technology to extract important patient information from clinical narratives to support healthcare applications. The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized many NLP tasks in the clinical domain, yet their […]


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GEMINI: The First Underground Testbed for Seismic Isolation and Interplatform Control in Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Kavli Affiliate: Richard Mittleman | First 5 Authors: Tomislav Andric, Tomislav Andric, , , | Summary: GEMINI is an underground research and development facility dedicated to advancing seismic isolation and control technologies for future gravitational-wave observatories, including the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA). This paper presents the technical design and theoretical […]


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On the connection between nitrogen-enhanced field stars and the Galactic globular clusters

Kavli Affiliate: Andrey Kravtsov | First 5 Authors: Sarah G. Kane, Sarah G. Kane, , , | Summary: As sites of some of the most efficient star formation in the Universe, globular clusters (GCs) have long been hypothesized to be the building blocks of young galaxies. Within the Milky Way, our best tracers of the […]


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Rare mutations implicate CGE interneurons as a vulnerable axis of cognitive deficits across psychiatric disorders

Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: Stephanie A Herrlinger, Jiayao Wang, Bovey Y Rao, Jonathan Chang, Joseph Gogos, Attila Losonczy and Dennis Vitkup | Summary: Neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) share genetic risk factors, including rare high penetrance single nucleotide variants and copy number variants (CNVs), and exhibit both […]


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