Kavli Affiliate: Kristin Persson | Summary:Nanoparticle properties are governed by their surfaces, yet their atomic-scale surface structures remain challenging to predict. Here, we report that bimetallic nanoparticles can form a thermodynamically controlled "shell-dimer" architecture in which one metal forms an overlayer only a few atomic layers thick on another. Using Au-Rh as a model system, […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Huenemoerder | Summary:We present a multiwavelength analysis of the star $ρ$ Oph C, covering X-ray, optical, near-infrared, and radio observations to test for the presence of interferometrically-detected cool star companions. The X-ray observations from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR show flare-like events lasting minutes or days in time and spectral properties consistent with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Elemental substitution within existing structural frameworks is a widely applied strategy for developing advanced materials. Yet, optimizing target properties while maintaining phase purity usually demands extensive trial-and-error, which becomes substantially inefficient when navigating a complex design space. Here, we introduce a strategy that simultaneously and dynamically assesses composition-dependent synthetic accessibility and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | Summary:The centers of galaxies harbor the densest stellar environments, where a massive black hole (MBH) accelerates stars to such high velocities that direct collisions can result in high-energetic phenomena, such as gravitational wave sources, kilonovae, and supernova-like transients. These collisions can reshape the cluster’s density profile and release gas […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen| Summary: Jellyfish-inspired robots offer a compliant and efficient approach to underwater locomotion, but achieving large deformation together with repeatable actuation and closed-loop control remains challenging. In this work, we present a tendon-driven robotic jellyfish with constrained soft actuation. Each actuator combines a flexible substrate with discrete constraints, enabling bending up to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen| Summary: Jellyfish-inspired robots offer a compliant and efficient approach to underwater locomotion, but achieving large deformation together with repeatable actuation and closed-loop control remains challenging. In this work, we present a tendon-driven robotic jellyfish with constrained soft actuation. Each actuator combines a flexible substrate with discrete constraints, enabling bending up to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Exploration seismic processing underpins subsurface imaging and resource exploration, but learning-based methods remain difficult to compare across studies. Our survey of 368 papers finds widespread reliance on private or difficult-to-reproduce datasets, with only 25 providing public code. This obscures whether reported gains arise from model design or experimental settings. We introduce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hitoshi Murayama | Summary:We show that the inert doublet dark matter can reconcile the purported LZ direct detection signal and IceCube constraints. The preferred dark matter mass is 11.3–20.3~TeV, an order of magnitude heavier than the standard higgsino target. The smaller number density at a high mass can reproduce the LZ event given […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Current automated gait analysis for clinical applications relies on uninterpretable black-box classifiers. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer strong reasoning capabilities, applying them directly to gait videos often leads to hallucinations, because they struggle to measure subtle geometric deviations from raw visual contexts. To address this, we introduce DrGait, a training-free agentic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Seth Blackshaw | Authors: Paolo Piovani, Carole Belliardo, Rahul Makam, Boglarka Zambo, Annabelle Mantilleri, Amandine Chassot, Gergo Gogl, Christian P. Schaaf, Seth Blackshaw, Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, Michele Bertacchi and Michele Studer | Summary: The molecular programs that establish specialized retinal regions during development are essential for high-acuity vision, yet how their disruption contributes to […]