Mosquito sex under lock and key

Kavli Affiliate: Leslie B. Vosshall | Authors: Leah Houri-Zeevi, Madison M. Walker, Jacopo Razzauti, Anurag Sharma, H. Amalia Pasolli and Leslie B. Vosshall | Summary: Female mosquitoes typically mate once in a lifetime, making this singular mating decision critically important for the female. Yet, mosquito mating has been historically viewed as male-guided, with the female […]


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System of Agentic AI for the Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Theo Jaffrelot Inizan, Sherry Yang, Aaron Kaplan, Yen-hsu Lin, Jian Yin | Summary: Generative models and machine learning promise accelerated material discovery in MOFs for CO2 capture and water harvesting but face significant challenges navigating vast chemical spaces while ensuring synthetizability. Here, we present MOFGen, a […]


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X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Thomas D. Russell, Mason Ng, Swati Ravi | Summary: We report the first X-ray and radio polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) atoll-source 4U 1728-34 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Australia Telescope Compact […]


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Accurate Point Defect Energy Levels from Non-Empirical Screened Range-Separated Hybrid Functionals: the Case of Native Vacancies in ZnO

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey B. Neaton | First 5 Authors: Sijia Ke, Stephen E. Gant, Leeor Kronik, Jeffrey B. Neaton, | Summary: We use density functional theory (DFT) with non-empirically tuned screened range-separated hybrid (SRSH) functionals to calculate the electronic properties of native zinc and oxygen vacancy point defects in ZnO, and we predict their defect […]


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Detecting Intermediate-mass Black Holes Using Quasar Microlensing

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Zihao Wu, Luis C. Ho, , , | Summary: Recent studies suggest that numerous intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) may wander undetected across the Universe, emitting little radiation. These IMBHs largely preserve their birth masses, offering critical insights into the formation of heavy black hole seeds and […]


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Q-balls Under Spontaneously Broken U(1) Symmetry

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Kawasaki | First 5 Authors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai, Fuminobu Takahashi, , | Summary: We study the evolution of Q-balls under a spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetry. Q-balls are stabilized by the conservation of $U(1)$ charge, but when the symmetry is spontaneously broken, the resulting Nambu-Goldstone (NG) boson can carry charge away […]


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ATG2A engages Rab1a and ARFGAP1 positive membranes during autophagosome biogenesis

Kavli Affiliate: Pietro De Camilli | Authors: Devin M Fuller, Yumei Wu, Florian Schueder, Burha Rasool, Shanta Nag, Justin L. Korfhage, Rolando Garcia-Milian, Katerina D Melnyk, Joerg Bewersdorf, Pietro De Camilli and Thomas Melia | Summary: Autophagosomes form from seed membranes that expand through bulk-lipid transport via the bridge-like lipid transporter ATG2. The origins of […]


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Seasonal brain regeneration and chromosome instability are linked to selection on DNA repair in Sorex araneus

Kavli Affiliate: Erich Jarvis | Authors: William R Thomas, Tanya M Lama, Diana Moreno-Santillan, Marta Farre, Cecilia Baldoni, Linelle Abueg, Jennifer Balacco, Olivier Fedrigo, Giulio Formenti, Nivesh Jain, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Tatiana Tilley, Alan Tracey, David A Ray, Dina K. N. Dechmann, Dominik von Elverfeldt, John Nieland, Angelique P Corthals, Erich Jarvis and Liliana M Davalos […]


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Hippocampus facilitates reinforcement learning under partial observability

Kavli Affiliate: Rui Costa | Authors: Dabal Pedamonti, Samia Mohinta, Martin Dimitrov, Hugo Malagon-Vina, Stephane Ciocchi and Rui Ponte Costa | Summary: Mastering navigation in environments with limited visibility is crucial for survival. Although the hippocam-pus has been associated with goal-oriented navigation, its role in real-world behaviour remains unclear. To investigate this, we combined deep […]


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Cosmological Evolution of Fast Radio Bursts and The Star Formation Rate

Kavli Affiliate: Vahe Petrosian | First 5 Authors: Sujay Champati, Vahé Petrosian, , , | Summary: We investigate the cosmological evolution of the luminosity and redshift of FRBs. As is the case for all extragalactic sources, we are dealing with data that are truncated by observational selection effects, the most important being the flux limit, […]


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