Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: TianChen Huang, TianChen Huang, , , | Summary: Traversing narrow paths is challenging for humanoid robots due to the sparse and safety-critical footholds required. Purely template-based or end-to-end reinforcement learning-based methods suffer from such harsh terrains. This paper proposes a two stage training framework for such narrow […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ali Hajimiri | First 5 Authors: Antonio Victor Machado de Oliveira, Antonio Victor Machado de Oliveira, , , | Summary: Electrical impedance tomography with fully integrated microfluidics and electronics is presented for the first time in a CMOS chip. Chambers and electrodes are fabricated in the interconnect layers of a 65 nm CMOS […]
Kavli Affiliate: James Bock | First 5 Authors: Sean Bryan, Sean Bryan, , , | Summary: SPHEREx is a NASA infrared astronomy mission that launched on March 12th, 2025 and is operating successfully in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The mission is currently observing the entire sky in 102 spectral channels in four independent all-sky surveys and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kerry Vahala | First 5 Authors: Stephan Amann, Stephan Amann, , , | Summary: Optical frequency combs have revolutionised time and frequency metrology [1, 2]. The advent of microresonator-based frequency combs (‘microcombs’ [3-5]) is set to lead to the miniaturisation of devices that are ideally suited to a wide range of applications, including […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Seola Lee, Seola Lee, , , | Summary: Wearable electronics are emerging as essential tools for health monitoring, haptic feedback, and human-computer interactions. While stable contact at the device-body interface is critical for these applications, it remains challenging due to the skin’s softness, roughness, and mechanical variability. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Seola Lee, Seola Lee, , , | Summary: Wearable electronics are emerging as essential tools for health monitoring, haptic feedback, and human-computer interactions. While stable contact at the device-body interface is critical for these applications, it remains challenging due to the skin’s softness, roughness, and mechanical variability. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Wei Gao, , , | Summary: Conventionally, human intuition often defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, while active optical sensing is typically regarded as measuring rather than the default modality of vision. However, the situation now changes: sensor technologies and data-driven paradigms […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul D. Asimow | First 5 Authors: K. Marshall Seaton, K. Marshall Seaton, , , | Summary: The Europa Clipper mission will arrive at the Jovian system in 2030 and analyze ice grains sourced from the icy material on its surface using impact mass spectrometry, which will provide key constraints on Europa’s chemical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lihong V. Wang | First 5 Authors: Lihong V. Wang, Lihong V. Wang, , , | Summary: After publishing the derivation from the classical Bloch equation to the quantum von Neumann equation to the Schr"odinger–Pauli equation for spin-1/2, we proposed renaming the Bloch equation to the Majorana–Bloch equation because Majorana’s work predated Bloch’s […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Wei Gao, , , | Summary: We investigate the photon structure functions via the photon-photon and photon-vector meson scattering within the framework of holographic QCD, focusing on the small Bjorken $x$ region and assuming that the Pomeron exchange dominates. The quasi-real photon structure functions are […]