CIAO: Chandra’s Data Analysis System for X-Ray Astronomy and Beyond

Kavli Affiliate: Moritz Guenther | Summary:The Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software, developed by the Chandra X-ray Center, has been the data analysis package for the Chandra X-ray Observatory since its launch in 1999. Over nearly three decades, CIAO has grown from a small software suite into a widely used system for X-ray data […]


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Ecotypes, Wolbachia, and urbanization shape Culex pipiens population structure in a West Nile virus hotspot

Kavli Affiliate: Scott Small | Authors: Sonia Cebrián-Camisón, Ángel G. Rivera-Colón, Scott T. Small, Jordi Figuerola, Andrew D. Kern, Peter L. Ralph, Aureliano Bombarely and María José Ruiz-López | Summary: Culex pipiens is a major vector of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Europe and has a complex evolutionary history that has been linked to the […]


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Clustered Inputs Maximize Efficiency for Stable Place Field Encoding in Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons

Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: Simone Tasciotti, Daniel Maxim Iascone, Spyridon Chavlis, Luke Hammond, Yardena Katz, Attila Losonczy, Franck Polleaux and Panayiota Poirazi | Summary: How spatial organization of synaptic inputs along the dendritic tree of neurons influence their feature selectivity is a central question in neuroscience. Here, we mapped the three-dimensional distribution of […]


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Opioids modulate Curiosity-Driven Exploration in Music

Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline Gottlieb | Authors: Claudia Alvarez-Martin, Raimund Buehler, Xim Cerda-Company, Gemma Cardona, Matthäus Willeit, Jacqueline Pallas Gottlieb, Giorgia Silani and Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells | Summary: Curiosity, a key driver of exploration and learning, is reinforced by reward-related neurochemical systems, yet the role of the opioidergic system in modulating this behavior remains unclear. Music, as […]


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Compressed Cortical Input Separates Control from Dynamics in Striatum

Kavli Affiliate: Marcelo Mattar | Authors: Sreejan Kumar, Matthieu B Le Cauchois, Alexander Mathis, Lea Duncker, Jonathon R. Howlett and Marcelo G. Mattar | Summary: The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) supports diverse time-sensitive behaviors—action chunking, duration estimation, and motor timing—yet no single framework is able to explain all of these phenomena. Here, we propose that the […]


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COOL-LAMPS IX: A Rare Duo of Quasars Each Lensed by a Single Massive Galaxy Cluster

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Gladders | Summary:Wide-separation lensed quasars (WSLQs) are rare systems that arise from the chance alignment of two objects: a galaxy cluster and a background quasar. After two decades, only seven WSLQs have been found. Here, we report the discovery of COOLJ1153+0755 by the COOL-LAMPS collaboration in DECaLS imaging and its confirmation with […]


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