Kavli Affiliate: James Analytis| Summary:Control of light polarization and propagation in sub-wavelength architectures is foundational to nanophotonic technologies. A frontier direction is to leverage strong optical spin-orbit interactions to realize polarization-selective light steering, known as the photonic spin Hall effect. In this context, hyperbolic plasmon polaritons (HPPs) are of particular interest as they offer large […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zameel Cader | Authors: Xuewei Qi, Alessandra Granata, Tom Van Agtmael, Sanjay Sinha, Zameel Cader, Hugh S Markus, Stuart M. Allan, Karen Horsburgh and Tao Wang | Summary: Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a major contributor to stroke and cognitive decline, ultimately leading to vascular dementia (VaD). Genetic factors play a key […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Goldberg | Authors: Thomas A Sasani, Michael E Goldberg, Akshay K Avvaru, Thomas J Nicholas, Deborah W Neklason, Egor Dolzhenko, Tom Mokveld, Katherine M Munson, Kendra Hoekzema, Marcelo Ayllon, Eli J Kaufman, David Porubsky, Paul N Valdmanis, Evan E Eichler, Aaron R Quinlan and Harriet Dashnow | Summary: Tandem repeats (TRs) are […]
Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | Summary:We report the discovery and characterisation of the multi-planetary system around TOI-4311, a K dwarf kinematically between the Galactic thick disk and Hercules stream. TOI-4311 hosts an ultra-short-period super-Earth (P$sim$0.99 d, $1.376substack+0.077\-0.080$ R$_oplus$) and a longer period sub-Neptune (P$sim$15 d, $2.47substack+0.12\-0.11$ R$_oplus$) that was first detected in the TESS photometry. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herre Van Der Zant | Summary:Achieving magnon-photon hybridization in the microwave regime is essential for integrating magnetic excitations with superconducting circuits. While this has been extensively demonstrated in bulk magnetic systems, realizing it in two-dimensional van der Waals materials remains challenging due to their reduced magnetic volume and increased dissipation. Here, magnon-photon hybridization […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul D. Asimow | Summary:Iron disproportionation reactions in mantle silicates can produce metallic iron that drives Earth’s deep mantle toward metal saturation under reduced conditions. Subducting slabs transport hydrated silicates to these depths, where interactions with metallic iron can reduce structurally bound hydrogen in silicates to reduced hydrogen-bearing phases, such as molecular hydrogen […]
Kavli Affiliate: Martin Lindquist | Authors: Yanxi Liu, Richard E. Harris, Daniel Clauw, Emine Bayman, Andrew Leroux and Martin A. Lindquist | Summary: Chronic pain is a widespread public health issue that imposes substantial health, emotional, and economic burdens on individuals and communities. Because pain is subjective and lacks objective biomarkers, it is typically measured […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Samantha M Gray, Adam JO Dede, Zachariah R Cross, Ignacio Saez, Fady Girgis, Edward F Chang, Kurtis Auguste, Ammar Shaikhouni, Robert T Knight and Elizabeth L Johnson | Summary: Working memory (WM) enables us to maintain and manipulate information over time, but how the brain organizes sequential information locally […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul Schechter | Summary:Lensed supernovae (SNae) are among the most eagerly anticipated transients expected from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Quadruply lensed SNae permit more highly constrained models than "mere" doubles. The quadruply lensed SN 2025wny offers multiple lessons on how one might respond to an alert. The full benefits […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | Summary:As part of the ongoing work of the $R$-Process Alliance (RPA), detailed abundance measurements of 29 heavy elements in three metal-poor stars, 2MASS J14592981$-$3852558, 2MASS J19445483$-$4039459, and 2MASS J15211026$-$0607566, are presented based on an analysis of high-resolution ($Rsim 80,000$), high signal-to-noise “portrait” spectra from the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) […]