@article{20851,
  abstract     = {High-voltage disordered spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 is a promising cathode material for high power density in lithium-ion batteries. However, it suffers from poor cycle life associated with the rock-salt phase transformation. This study presents a straightforward synthesis approach to enhance the electrochemical performance of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 through a synergistic solid-state modification with LiF and AlF3. This dual modification promotes rapid Li⁺ diffusion, enables near-complete delithiation/lithiation, approaching the theoretical capacity of disordered LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, and, more importantly, effectively mitigates the formation of the rock-salt phase, thereby enhancing structural stability, as confirmed by operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD). As a result, the optimized LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (10 mg AlF3 + 30 mg LiF) delivers high reversible capacities of 142.1, 139.1, 129.2, 121.6, 110.3, 93.5, and 76.1 mAh∙g−1 at 0.2C, 0.5C, 1.0C, 2.0C, 3.0C, 4.0C, and 5.0C, respectively. Full cells using graphite as the anode and a high-loading cathode exhibit excellent cycling performance. They retain 80% of their capacity after 200 cycles at 0.5C within a voltage window of 3.5–4.9 V with cathode loading of 11 mg∙cm−2. The findings of this study will significantly advance high-power LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 materials, offering improved battery life and thereby enhancing their potential for practical applications.},
  author       = {Chang, Xingqi and Escudero, Carlos and Black, Ashley P. and Horta, Sharona and Martínez, Elías and Lu, Xuan and Llorca, Jordi and Ibáñez, Maria and Biendicho, Jordi Jacas and Cabot, Andreu},
  issn         = {2198-3844},
  journal      = {Advanced Science},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Mitigating the rock-salt phase transformation in disordered LNMO through synergetic solid-state AlF3/LiF modifications}},
  doi          = {10.1002/advs.202515962},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20857,
  abstract     = {Evolutionary games provide a flexible mathematical framework for many problems in biology and social evolution. Prisoners’ dilemma, and in particular, the important special case of donation games, represents social dilemmas where cooperation is mutually beneficial, yet defection is preferred by selfish agents. In evolutionary games on networks, the agents interact over a population structure. The existence of population structures that promote cooperative behavior is a fascinating and active research topic. Previous research establishes structures promoting cooperation in the limit of weak selection where the benefit-to-cost ratio β exceeds 1.5. The existence of such structures for medium and strong selection for 1 < ß < 2 and for weak selection for 1 < ß < 1.5 has been a long-standing open question. First, we answer the open questions in the affirmative: For every selection strength and every ß > 1, we construct networks promoting cooperation. Second, we present a robustness result with respect to β and selection strength: Our structures promote cooperation for a range of these parameter values rather than specific parameter values. Finally, we supplement our theoretical results with simulation results on small population structures that show the effectiveness of our construction over well-studied population structures.},
  author       = {Svoboda, Jakub and Chatterjee, Krishnendu},
  issn         = {1091-6490},
  journal      = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  number       = {51},
  pages        = {e2524109122},
  publisher    = {National Academy of Sciences},
  title        = {{Promoters of cooperation in evolutionary games}},
  doi          = {10.1073/pnas.2524109122},
  volume       = {122},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20858,
  abstract     = {Targeted antigen delivery to immune cells, particularly dendritic cells, has emerged as a promising strategy to enhance therapeutic efficacy of vaccines, while minimizing adverse effects associated with conventional immunization. In this study, we use our previously described small glycomimetic molecule that is selectively recognized by the Langerhans cell (LC)-specific surface receptor Langerin and demonstrate specific delivery of protein antigens to these specialized dendritic cells. Our results show that Langerin-mediated antigen delivery significantly enhances the immune response in vivo, resulting in increased expansion and activation of antigen-specific T cells, compared to immunization with unmodified antigen. We demonstrate the feasibility of our LC-targeted platform for immune cell-specific immunization with protein antigen and underscore the potential of LCs as an access point for next-generation vaccines and immunotherapies.},
  author       = {Rica, Ramona and Klein, Klara and Johnson, Litty and Carta, Gabriele and Sarcevic, Mirza and Langer, Freyja and Rademacher, Christoph and Wawrzinek, Robert and Quattrone, Federica and Sparber, Florian},
  issn         = {1525-0024},
  journal      = {Molecular Therapy},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Langerhans cell-targeted protein delivery enhances antigen-specific cellular immune response}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.ymthe.2025.10.008},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20859,
  abstract     = {Effective immune responses rely on the efficient migration of leukocytes. Yet, how temperature regulates migration dynamics at the single-cell level has remained poorly understood. Using zebrafish embryos and mouse tissue explants, we found that temperature positively regulates leukocyte migration speed, exploration, and arrival frequencies to wounds and lymph vessels. Complementary 2D and 3D cultures revealed that this thermokinetic control of cell migration is conserved across immune cell types, independently of the 3D tissue environment. By applying precise (sub-)cellular temperature modulation, we identified a rapid and reversible thermo-response that depends on myosin II activity. Small physiological increases in temperature (1°C –2°C), as present during fever-like conditions, profoundly increased immune responses by accelerating arrival times at lymphatic vessels and tissue wounds. These findings identify myosin-II-dependent actomyosin contractility as a critical mechanical structure regulating single-cell thermo-adaptability, with physiological implications for tuning the speed of immune responses in vivo.},
  author       = {Company-Garrido, Iván and Zurita Carpio, Alberto and Colomer-Rosell, Mariona and Ciraulo, Bernard and Molkenbur, Ronja and Lanzerstorfer, Peter and Pezzano, Fabio and Agazzi, Costanza and Hauschild, Robert and Jain, Saumey and Jacques, Jeroen M. and Venturini, Valeria and Knapp, Christian and Xie, Yufei and Merrin, Jack and Weghuber, Julian and Schaaf, Marcel and Quidant, Romain and Kiermaier, Eva and Ortega Arroyo, Jaime and Ruprecht, Verena and Wieser, Stefan},
  issn         = {1878-1551},
  journal      = {Developmental Cell},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Myosin II regulates cellular thermo-adaptability and the efficiency of immune responses}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.devcel.2025.10.006},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20866,
  abstract     = {In this work, we present hypernode automata as a specification formalism for hyperproperties of systems whose executions may be misaligned among themselves, such as concurrent systems. These automata consist of nodes labeled with hypernode logic formulas and transitions marked with synchronizing actions. Hypernode logic formulas establish relations between sequences of variable values among different system executions. This logic enables both synchronous and asynchronous analysis of traces. In its asynchronous view on execution traces, hypernode formulas establish relations on the order of value changes for each variable without correlating their timing. In both views, the analysis of different execution traces is synchronized through the transitions of hypernode automata. By combining logic’s declarative nature with automata’s procedural power, hypernode automata seamlessly integrate asynchronicity requirements at the node level with synchronicity between node transitions. We show that the model-checking problem for hypernode automata is decidable for specifications where each node specifies either a synchronous or an asynchronous requirement for the system’s executions, but not both.},
  author       = {Bartocci, Ezio and Chalupa, Marek and Henzinger, Thomas A and Nickovic, Dejan and Oliveira da Costa, Ana},
  issn         = {1432-0525},
  journal      = {Acta Informatica},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Hypernode automata}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00236-025-00509-8},
  volume       = {62},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20867,
  abstract     = {We discuss the embeddability of subspaces of the Gromov–Hausdorff space, which consists of isometry classes of compact metric spaces endowed with the Gromov–Hausdorff distance, into Hilbert spaces. These embeddings are particularly valuable for applications to topological data analysis. We prove that its subspace consisting of metric spaces with at most n points has asymptotic dimension n(n−1)∕2. Thus, there exists a coarse embedding of that space into a Hilbert space. On the contrary, if the number of points is not bounded, then the subspace cannot be coarsely embedded into any uniformly convex Banach space and so, in particular, into any Hilbert space. Furthermore, we prove that, even if we restrict to finite metric spaces whose diameter is bounded by some constant, the subspace still cannot be bi-Lipschitz embedded into any finite-dimensional Hilbert space. We obtain both nonembeddability results by finding obstructions to coarse and bi-Lipschitz embeddings in families of isometry classes of finite subsets of the real line endowed with the Euclidean–Hausdorff distance.},
  author       = {Zava, Nicolò},
  issn         = {1472-2739},
  journal      = {Algebraic & Geometric Topology},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {5153--5174},
  publisher    = {Mathematical Sciences Publishers},
  title        = {{Coarse and bi-Lipschitz embeddability of subspaces of the Gromov–Hausdorff space into Hilbert spaces}},
  doi          = {10.2140/agt.2025.25.5153},
  volume       = {25},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20868,
  abstract     = {Residents of low-latitude megacities face growing vulnerability to humid-heat stress under urbanization and global warming, yet limited research has assessed the morbidity burden of mental and behavioral disorders (MBDs) linked to humid-heat exposures in these cities. Here we quantify the hospital admissions of MBDs in Shanghai, a megacity of over 25 million inhabitants, attributable to humid heat, and project future burdens under various greenhouse gas (GHG)-emission and population scenarios. Humid heat drives a higher morbidity burden than high temperature alone, especially in humid-heat nights. Without population change, the humid-heat-related morbidity burden of MBDs would increase by 68.2% (95% empirical confidence interval 56.7%–81.6%) under the highest-GHG-emission scenario by the 2090s, while 8,465 (95% empirical confidence interval 6,928–10,053) cases would be avoided by reducing emissions to the lowest pathway. With projected population decline, the attributable hospital admissions will decrease toward century’s end. These findings highlight the benefit of GHG mitigation in reducing the growing MBD risks posed by extreme humid heat.},
  author       = {Liang, Chen and Yuan, Jiacan and Zhang, Renhe and Tang, Xu and Schumann, Gunter and Hitchen, Esther and Polemiti, Elli and Serin, Emin and Kebir, Hedi and Lett, Tristram A. and Vaidya, Nilakshi and Roy, Jean-Charles and Walter, Henrik and Heinz, Andreas and Ralser, Markus and Twardziok, Sven and Eils, Roland and Jentsch, Marcel and Taron, Ulrike-Helene and Schütz, Tatjana and Schepanski, Kerstin and Banaschewski, Tobias and Neidhart, Maja and Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas and Tost, Heike and Holz, Nathalie and Schwarz, Emanuel and Stringaris, Argyris and Christmann, Nina and Janson, Karina and Nees, Frauke and Neidhart, Maja and Seefried, Beke and Aden, Rieke and Andreassen, Ole A. and Westlye, Lars T. and van der Meer, Dennis and Fernández-Cabello, Sara and Kjelkenes, Rikka and Ask, Helga and Rapp, Michael and Tschorn, Mira and Böttger, Sarah Jane and Marquand, Andre and Bernas, Antoine and Novarino, Gaia and Slater, Mel and Gallego, Jaime and Pastor, Álvaro and Feixas, Guillem and Eiroa-Orosa, Francisco José and Nöthen, Markus M. and Forstner, Andreas J. and Claus, Isabelle and Mathey, Carina and Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie and Hoffmann, Per and Miller, Abigail and Sommer, Peter and Schmitt, Karen and Wilbertz, Johannes and Patraskaki, Myrto and Jirsa, Viktor and Petkoski, Spase and Athanasiadis, Anastasios-Polykarpos and Spanlang, Bernhard and Pearmund, Charlie and Hese, Sören and Renner, Paul and Jia, Tianye and Chang, Xiao and Dai, Yuxiang and Xia, Yunman and Li, Yuzhu and Zhang, Yanqing and Calhoun, Vince and Thompson, Paul and Clinton, Nicholas and Desrivières, Sylvane and Agunbiade, Kofoworola and Yu, Xinyang and Zhang, Zuo and Chen, Di and Young, Allan H. and Schwalber, Ameli and Köhler, Vanessa and Stahl, Bernd and Ogoh, George and Schikowski, Tamara and Brandlistuen, Ragnhild},
  issn         = {2731-6076},
  journal      = {Nature Mental Health},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {1532--1544},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Projecting the morbidity burden of mental and behavioral disorders associated with increasing humid heat in Shanghai}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s44220-025-00519-y},
  volume       = {3},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20869,
  abstract     = {Premise: What maintains trait divergence in the face of gene flow? Two varieties of wild snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) characterized by divergent flower color hybridize in their native range. Selection on flower color genes is indicated by sharp clines, but the selective agents have not been demonstrated. Although previous work has focused on pollinators, pigmentation genes can also contribute to abiotic stress tolerance. We hypothesized that pigmentation in A. majus mediates stress tolerance, which could contribute to hybrid zone maintenance through parental niche divergence or hybrid maladaptation. Specifically, we tested whether morphotype mediates drought tolerance in an experiment comparing magenta-flowered var. pseudomajus, yellow-flowered var. striatum, and their pink-flowered hybrid cross.
Methods: We experimentally compared drought tolerance of each morphotype from allopatric crosses within and between varieties using three greenhouse treatments. Control plants were watered as needed, while drought-treated plants were watered half as often, either from the transplant stage (“early” drought), or from flowering onset (“late” drought).
Results: Parental morphotypes responded identically to drought in fitness and most phenotypic traits. However, hybrids had lower survival (14%) under late drought stress than parental morphotypes (70%). All hybrids that flowered in the late drought treatment died, compared to ~20% of flowering parental morphotypes.
Conclusions: Hybrid maladaptation to abiotic stress could potentially contribute to flower color divergence in the face of gene flow in A. majus. Further research should test the relevance of our results to field conditions and explicitly probe the role of flower color genes in drought tolerance.},
  author       = {Fuster‐Calvo, Alexandre and Jaworski, Coline C. and Ellis, Thomas and Baskett, Carina},
  issn         = {1537-2197},
  journal      = {American Journal of Botany},
  number       = {12},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Reduced fitness under drought stress in F1 hybrids of Antirrhinum majus varieties with divergent flower colors}},
  doi          = {10.1002/ajb2.70129},
  volume       = {112},
  year         = {2025},
}

@inbook{20870,
  abstract     = {RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) methodologies have evolved rapidly, offering powerful tools to study gene expression, transcriptome dynamics, and molecular mechanisms in various biological contexts. However, the complexity of these approaches poses challenges in data interpretation, sensitivity, and applicability. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of RNA-seq methodologies, highlighting their advantages, limitations, and applications, particularly in cardiovascular research. Bulk RNA sequencing enables high-throughput gene expression profiling but lacks the resolution to capture cellular heterogeneity and spatial context. Direct RNA sequencing preserves native RNA modifications, offering insights into post-transcriptional regulation, though it remains technically challenging. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and spatial transcriptomics (ST) bridge these gaps by resolving transcriptomic complexity at the cellular level and within tissue architecture, providing crucial insights into disease mechanisms such as atherosclerosis. By summarizing the strengths and limitations of these methodologies, this chapter aims to guide researchers in selecting the most suitable transcriptomic approach for their studies, ultimately advancing precision medicine and biomarker discovery in cardiovascular disease.},
  author       = {Stopa, Victoria and Sopić, Miron and Li, Guanliang and Sluimer, Judith and Basílio, José and van der Laan, Sander W. and Kreil, David P. and Devaux, Yvan and Hochreiter, Bernhard},
  booktitle    = {Transcriptomics in Atherosclerosis},
  editor       = {Devaux, Yvan and Sopic, Miron},
  isbn         = {9780443330643},
  pages        = {131--172},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Essentials of transcriptomic methods: Navigating through RNA sequencing and beyond}},
  doi          = {10.1016/b978-0-443-33064-3.00016-5},
  year         = {2025},
}

@misc{20883,
  abstract     = {Evading imminent predator threat is critical for survival. Effective defensive strategies can vary, even between closely related species. However, the neural basis of such species-specific behaviours is still poorly understood. Here we find that two sister species of deer mice (genus Peromyscus) show different responses to the same looming stimulus: P. maniculatus, which occupies densely vegetated habitats, predominantly escapes, while the open field specialist, P. polionotus, briefly freezes. This difference arises from species-specific escape thresholds, is largely context-independent, and can be triggered by both visual and auditory threat stimuli. Using immunohistochemistry and electrophysiological recordings, we find that although visual threat activates the superior colliculus in both species, the role of the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG) in driving behaviour differs. While dPAG activity scales with running speed in P. maniculatus, neural activity in the dPAG of P. polionotus correlates poorly with movement, including during visually triggered escape. Moreover, optogenetic activation of dPAG neurons elicits acceleration in P. maniculatus but not P. polionotus, while their chemogenetic inhibition during a looming stimulus delays escape onset in P. maniculatus to match that of P. polionotus. Together, we trace species-specific escape thresholds to a central circuit node, downstream of peripheral sensory neurons, localizing an ecologically relevant behavioural difference to a specific region of the mammalian brain.},
  author       = {Felix, Baier and Reinhard, Katja and Nuttin, Bram and Sans Dublanc, Arnau and Liu, Chen and Tong, Victoria and Murmann, Julie Stefanie and Wierda, Keimpe and Farrow, Karl and Hoekstra, Hopi},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice}},
  doi          = {10.5061/DRYAD.Q2BVQ83XC},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20924,
  abstract     = {Pioneer transcription factors (TFs) possess the ability to read out DNA motifs embedded within nucleosomes, driving changes in gene expression during cellular differentiation and reprogramming. Here, we present selected engagement on nucleosome sequencing (SeEN-seq), a protocol designed to systematically identify potential TF-binding sites on the nucleosome. We describe steps for nucleosome library assembly, SeEN-seq assay, and cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) sample preparation. This protocol facilitates the preparation of homogeneous pioneer TF-nucleosome complexes for cryo-EM structure determination using single-particle analysis.
For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Michael et al.1},
  author       = {Kobayashi, Wataru and Michael, Alicia and Ruangroengkulrith, Siwat and Kümmecke, Maximilian and Tachibana, Kikuë},
  issn         = {2666-1667},
  journal      = {STAR Protocols},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Protocol for integrative analysis of transcription factor-nucleosome interactions using SeEN-seq and cryo-EM structure determination}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.xpro.2025.104295},
  volume       = {7},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20925,
  abstract     = {We prove normal typicality and dynamical typicality for a (centered) random block-band matrix model with block-dependent variances. A key feature of our model is that we achieve intermediate equilibration times, an aspect that has not been proven rigorously in any model before. Our proof builds on recently established concentration estimates for products of resolvents of Wigner type random matrices (Erdős and Riabov in Commun Math Phys 405(12): 282, 2024) and an intricate analysis of the deterministic approximation.},
  author       = {Erdös, László and Henheik, Sven Joscha and Vogel, Cornelia},
  issn         = {1573-0530},
  journal      = {Letters in Mathematical Physics},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Normal typicality and dynamical typicality for a random block-band matrix model}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s11005-025-02037-5},
  volume       = {116},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20926,
  abstract     = {Most current machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on short-range approximations, without explicit treatment of long-range electrostatics. To address this, we recently developed the Latent Ewald Summation (LES) method, which infers electrostatic interactions, polarization, and Born effective charges (BECs), just by learning from energy and force training data. Here, we present LES as a standalone library, compatible with any short-range MLIP, and demonstrate its integration with methods such as MACE, NequIP, Allegro, CACE, CHGNet, and UMA. We benchmark LES-enhanced models on distinct systems, including bulk water, polar dipeptides, and gold dimer adsorption on defective substrates, and show that LES not only captures correct electrostatics but also improves accuracy. Additionally, we scale LES to large and chemically diverse data by training MACELES-OFF on the SPICE set containing molecules and clusters, making a universal MLIP with electrostatics for organic systems, including biomolecules. MACELES-OFF is more accurate than its short-range counterpart (MACE-OFF) trained on the same data set, predicts dipoles and BECs reliably, and has better descriptions of bulk liquids. By enabling efficient long-range electrostatics without directly training on electrical properties, LES paves the way for electrostatic foundation MLIPs.},
  author       = {Kim, Dongjin and Wang, Xiaoyu and Vargas, Santiago and Zhong, Peichen and King, Daniel S. and Inizan, Theo Jaffrelot and Cheng, Bingqing},
  issn         = {1549-9626},
  journal      = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation},
  number       = {24},
  pages        = {12709--12724},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{A universal augmentation framework for long-range electrostatics in machine learning interatomic potentials}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acs.jctc.5c01400},
  volume       = {21},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20927,
  abstract     = {Cavity-magnon polaritons are hybrid excitations from the interaction between cavity photons and magnons, the quanta of collective spin oscillations. Along with the tunability of the magnon-photon coupling strength, fast information transfer and conversion speed are desired in hybrid devices. This can be achieved utilizing the propagating nature of spin waves with nonzero momentum for their ultrafast time dynamics and reduced ohmic dissipation. Antiferromagnets are particularly interesting as hosts for magnons since stray-field interactions are minimized and they support multiple modes with distinctive magnetic-field behavior across the phase diagram. Chromium trichloride (CrCl3) is a van der Waals layered antiferromagnet having a strong easy-plane anisotropy and a weak in-plane easy-axis anisotropy. Despite some magnetic resonance studies, the impact of magnetic reorientation of spins in CrCl3 on the cavity-magnon-polariton interaction strength as a function of magnetic field remains largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the coupling between magnons in CrCl3 and photons in a coplanar waveguide resonator as a function of magnetic field. In particular, we find that the magnon-photon coupling strength varies nonmonotonically and distinctly with the magnetic field for the acoustic and the optical magnons, which can be utilized to tune the magnon-photon coupling strength using an external magnetic field as a knob. We find the signature of spin-flop transition in the two harmonics of the cavity due to a stronger dispersive coupling between optical magnons and cavity photons at lower fields. Additionally, we find standing modes formed by spin waves with nonzero momentum associated with the two hybrid magnons when the external field is applied at an angle with the crystal plane. These modes do not undergo substantial coupling with the cavity mode unlike the antiferromagnetic modes and can be used as low-loss propagation channels in hybrid devices.},
  author       = {Mandal, Supriya and Maji, Krishnendu and Kapoor, Lucky and Sasmal, Souvik and Manni, Soham and Jesudasan, John and Raychaudhuri, Pratap and Thamizhavel, Arumugam and Deshmukh, Mandar M.},
  issn         = {2469-9969},
  journal      = {Physical Review B},
  number       = {21},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Cavity based sensing of antiferromagnetic canting and nonzero-momentum spin waves in a van der Waals cavity-magnon-polariton system}},
  doi          = {10.1103/bdd1-b8ys},
  volume       = {112},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20928,
  abstract     = {The current work focuses on the performance of hydrodynamics and mass transfer in a microchannel. A hydrodynamic model is developed for a gas–liquid (CO2–water) system and slug flow pattern. For the first time in literature, a concept of pulsating velocity input is introduced in an enhanced cross-T-junction microchannel to study the mass transfer using the physical absorption mechanism in ANSYS FLUENT R2 2024. The mass transfer model is associated with the hydrodynamic model and some user-defined functions in FLUENT. This work demonstrates that incorporating obstructions and applying trapezoidal and sinusoidal wave inputs improve the CO2 absorption rate. The obtained data are further compared with the plain T-junction microchannel in terms of mass transfer coefficient. Solubility of CO2 in three different solvents (ethyl alcohol, water, and ethylene glycol) has been revealed in an enhanced cross T-junction microchannel at two different temperatures, i.e., 298.15 and 303.15 K. The numerical simulations illustrate that an increase in temperature has an adverse effect on the mass transfer rate.},
  author       = {Khatoon, Bushra and Chaudhary, Vikas K. and Kamil, Shoaib and Hasan, Shabih Ul and Alam, M. Siraj},
  issn         = {1089-7666},
  journal      = {Physics of Fluids},
  number       = {12},
  publisher    = {AIP Publishing},
  title        = {{Enhanced mass transfer in microgeometry using pulsating velocity inputs: Hydrodynamic analysis and numerical simulation}},
  doi          = {10.1063/5.0303132},
  volume       = {37},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20929,
  abstract     = {Insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling inhibits FOXO transcription factors to control development, homeostasis, and aging. Here, we use proximity labeling to identify proteins interacting with the C. elegans FOXO DAF-16. We show that in well-fed, unstressed animals harboring active insulin signaling, DAF-16 forms a complex with the PAR-1/MARK serine/threonine kinase, a key regulator of cell polarity. PAR-1 inhibits DAF-16 accumulation and promotes DAF-16 phosphorylation at S249, at a conserved motif that PAR-1/human MARK2 phosphorylates in vitro. DAF-2 insulin-like receptor signaling stimulates DAF-16 S249 phosphorylation, suggesting DAF-2 activates PAR-1. DAF-2 also promotes PAR-1 expression by inhibiting DAF-16. PAR-1 knockdown, or DAF-16 S249A, prolong lifespan, whereas phosphomimetic DAF-16 S249D suppresses the longevity of daf-2 mutants. At low insulin signaling, DAF-16 proximity labeling highlights transcription factors, chromatin regulators, and DNA repair proteins. One interactor, the zinc finger/homeobox protein ZFH-2/ZFHX3, forms a complex with DAF-16 and prolongs lifespan. Our work provides entry points for hypothesis-driven studies of FOXO function and longevity.},
  author       = {Artan, Murat and Schön, Hanna and De Bono, Mario},
  issn         = {2041-1723},
  journal      = {Nature Communications},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Proximity labeling of DAF-16 FOXO highlights aging regulatory proteins}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s41467-025-66409-0},
  volume       = {16},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20930,
  abstract     = {Context. Beta Pictoris is an A-type star that hosts a complex planetary system with two massive gas giants and a prominent debris disc. Variable absorption lines in its stellar spectrum have been interpreted as signatures of exocomets – comet-like bodies transiting the star. Stellar flybys can gravitationally perturb objects in the outer comet reservoir, altering their orbits and potentially injecting them into the inner system, thereby triggering exocomet showers.
Aims. We assessed the contribution of stellar flybys to the observed exocomet activity by reconstructing the stellar encounter history of β Pictoris in the past and future.
Methods. We used Gaia DR3 data, supplemented with radial velocities from complementary spectroscopic surveys, to compile a catalogue of stars currently within 80 pc of β Pictoris. Their orbits were integrated backwards and forwards in time in an axisymmetric Galactic potential (via the GALA package) to identify encounters within 2 pc of the system.
Results. We identified 99 416 stars currently within 80 pc of β Pictoris with resolved kinematics. Among these, 49 stars (including the eight components of five binaries) encounter β Pictoris within 2 pc between –1.5 Myr and +2 Myr. For four of the binaries, the centre-of-mass trajectories also pass within 2 pc. We estimated the sample to be more than 60% complete within 0.5 Myr of today.
Conclusions. Despite β Pictoris being the eponym of its famous moving group, none of the identified encounters involved its moving group members; all are unrelated field stars. We found no encounter capable of shaping the observed disc structures, although stellar flybys may contribute to the long-term evolution of an Oort Cloud-like structure. Our catalogue constitutes the most complete reconstruction of the β Pictoris encounter history to date and provides a robust foundation for future dynamical simulations.},
  author       = {Gragera-Más, J. L. and Torres Rodriguez, Santiago and Mustill, A. J. and Villaver, E.},
  issn         = {1432-0746},
  journal      = {Astronomy & Astrophysics},
  publisher    = {EDP Sciences},
  title        = {{A kinematic history of stellar encounters with Beta Pictoris}},
  doi          = {10.1051/0004-6361/202555940},
  volume       = {704},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20931,
  abstract     = {Context. Asymmetries in the observed rotational splittings of a multiplet contain information about the star’s rotation profile and internal magnetic field. Moreover, the frequency regularities of multiplets can be used for mode identification. However, to exploit this information, highly accurate theoretical predictions are needed.

Aims. We aim to quantify the difference in the predicted mode asymmetries between a 1D perturbative method and a 2D method that includes a 2D stellar structure model, which takes rotation into account. We then place these differences between 1D and 2D methods in the context of asteroseismic measurements of internal magnetic fields. We only focus on the asymmetries and not on possible additional frequency peaks that can arise when the magnetic and rotation axis are misaligned.

Methods. We coupled the 1D pulsation codes GYRE and StORM to the 2D stellar structure code ESTER and compared the oscillation predictions with the results from the 2D TOP pulsation code. We focused on zero-age main-sequence models representative of rotating β Cephei pulsators spinning at up to 20 per cent of the critical Keplerian rotation rate. Specifically, we investigated low-radial-order gravity and pressure modes.

Results. We find a generally good agreement between the oscillation frequencies resulting from the 1D and 2D pulsation codes. We report differences in predicted mode multiplet asymmetries of mostly below 0.06 d−1. Since the magnetic asymmetries are small compared to the differences in the rotational asymmetries resulting from the 1D and 2D predictions, accurate measurements of the magnetic field are in most cases challenging.

Conclusions. Differences in the predicted mode asymmetries of a rotating star between 1D perturbative methods and 2D non-perturbative methods can greatly hinder accurate measurements of internal magnetic fields in main-sequence pulsators with low-order modes. Nevertheless, reasonably accurate measurements could be possible with npg ≥ 2 modes if the internal rotation is roughly below 10 per cent of the Keplerian critical rotation frequency for (aligned) magnetic fields of the order of a few hundred kilogauss. While the differences between the 1D and 2D frequency predictions are mostly too large for internal magnetic field detections, the rotational asymmetries predicted by StORM are in general accurate enough for asteroseismic modelling of the stellar rotation in main-sequence stars with identified low-order modes.},
  author       = {Mombarg, J. S.G. and Vanlaer, V. and Das, Srijan B and Rieutord, M. and Aerts, C. and Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle and Mathis, S. and Reese, D. R. and Ballot, J.},
  issn         = {1432-0746},
  journal      = {Astronomy & Astrophysics},
  publisher    = {EDP Sciences},
  title        = {{Is a 1D perturbative method sufficient for asteroseismic modelling of β Cephei pulsators? Implications for measurements of rotation and internal magnetic fields}},
  doi          = {10.1051/0004-6361/202557247},
  volume       = {704},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20932,
  abstract     = {Identifying Lyman continuum (LyC) leakers at intermediate redshifts is crucial for understanding the properties of cosmic reionizers because the opacity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prevents the direct detection of LyC emission from sources during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). In this study, we confirm two new LyC candidate leakers at z ∼ 3 in the Abell 2744 cluster field, with absolute escape fractions (fesc) of 0.83−0.80+0.15 and 0.74−0.70+0.23, respectively. The LyC emission was detected using HST/WFC3/F275W and F336W imaging. These two candidate leakers appear to be faint (MUV = −17.61 ± 0.06 and −18.22 ± 0.10), exhibit blue UV continuum slopes (β = −2.43 ± 0.05 and −1.92 ± 0.09), have low masses (M★ ∼ 107.51 ± 0.03 and 107.17 ± 0.15 M⊙) and Lyα equivalent widths of 90 ± 3 Å and 28 ± 12 Å, respectively. These two LyC candidate leakers were detected in a catalog of 91 spectroscopically confirmed sources using public spectra from the JWST and/or MUSE. We also analyzed properties that were proposed as indirect indicators of LyC emission, such as Lyα, the O32 ratio, and M★. We created a galaxy subsample that was selected according to these properties, stacked the LyC observations of this subsample, and assessed the limits of the escape fractions in the stacks. We aim to enhance our understanding of LyC escape mechanisms and improve our predictions of the LyC fesc during the EoR by analyzing the individual candidates and the stacks in the context of the currently limited sample of known LyC leakers at z ∼ 3.},
  author       = {Liu, Y. and Mascia, Sara and Pentericci, L. and Watson, P. and Alavi, A. and Bergamini, P. and Bradač, M. and Calabrò, A. and Glazebrook, K. and Henry, A. and Llerena, M. and Merlin, E. and Metha, B. and Nanayakkara, T. and Napolitano, L. and Roy, N. and Siana, B. and Vanzella, E. and Vulcani, B. and Wang, X.},
  issn         = {1432-0746},
  journal      = {Astronomy & Astrophysics},
  publisher    = {EDP Sciences},
  title        = {{A Lyman continuum analysis of ∼100 galaxies at z spec∼ 3 in the Abell 2744 cluster field}},
  doi          = {10.1051/0004-6361/202556410},
  volume       = {704},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{20933,
  abstract     = {Photo-responsive systems based on azobenzenes usually require UV light for E→Z isomerization, limiting their applicability, especially in biomedical contexts. Disequilibration by sensitization of azobenzene under confinement (DESC) has recently emerged as a supramolecular strategy to bypass this limitation without the need to derivatize the azobenzene scaffold. Here, we expand DESC to water-soluble azopolymers obtained by RAFT polymerization and systematically investigate the interplay between the polymer structure and DESC efficiency. Using this approach, we achieved as much as 85% of the direct photoexcitation (UV) switching efficiency, while utilizing low-energy (yellow) light. These results establish general design principles for combining DESC with polymeric systems, opening new opportunities for the development of functional materials driven with low-energy light.},
  author       = {Meteling, Henning Jörn and Gemen, Julius and Häkkinen, Satu and Klajn, Rafal and Priimagi, Arri},
  issn         = {1521-3773},
  journal      = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Sensitized disequilibration of water-soluble azopolymers}},
  doi          = {10.1002/anie.202523447},
  year         = {2025},
}