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featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features
This paper addresses a practical but surprisingly under-discussed bottleneck in next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis pipelines: after reads are...
The electronic properties of graphene
This Reviews of Modern Physics article, “The electronic properties of graphene” (Castro Neto, Guinea, Peres, Novoselov, and Geim, 2009), addresses a...
Fast unfolding of communities in large networks
This paper addresses a core problem in network science: how to detect community structure in very large graphs quickly, while still producing...
<i>Colloquium</i>: Topological insulators
This Reviews of Modern Physics “Colloquium” article by M. Zahid Hasan and C. L. Kane addresses a broad research question rather than a single narrow...
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
This paper asks how to efficiently learn high-quality distributed vector representations for words and phrases, and whether these representations...
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
This paper addresses a central problem in molecular dynamics (MD): how to generate trajectories that sample the canonical (constant number of...
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library
This paper asks a practical but foundational research question: can a deep learning framework deliver both (1) an imperative, Pythonic...
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This Physical Review Letters article asks a central question in two-dimensional (2D) materials science: how do the electronic and optical band...
Graphene: Status and Prospects
This Science review by A. K. Geim, “Graphene: Status and Prospects” (2009), asks a broad but timely question: given the explosive growth of graphene...
Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets
This paper addresses a practical bottleneck in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and population genetics: the original PLINK codebase (PLINK...
Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
This paper addresses a central problem in density functional theory (DFT) for solids: common generalized gradient approximations (GGAs), especially...
Community detection in graphs
Santo Fortunato’s Physics Reports review, “Community detection in graphs” (2009), addresses a deceptively simple research question: how can one...
Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils
This Science (2009) paper addresses a central bottleneck for graphene’s transition from lab-scale physics to scalable electronics: how to synthesize...
The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation
This paper asks a practical but foundational question: how does the NumPy N-dimensional array structure enable efficient numerical computation in a...
Van der Waals heterostructures
This Nature article by A. K. Geim and I. V. Grigorieva is a forward-looking review of “van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures”: artificial materials...
Fine Structure Constant Defines Visual Transparency of Graphene
This Science paper asks a deceptively simple research question: does the optical transparency (opacity) of suspended graphene depend only on...
Black phosphorus field-effect transistors
This paper asks whether few-layer black phosphorus (phosphorene) can function as a practical semiconductor channel in field-effect transistors (FETs)...
Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer
This Nature Communications paper asks whether the classic “molecular double-slit” idea—interference between electron wave packets emitted coherently...
Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices
This Nature paper asks whether magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG)—a two-dimensional moiré superlattice formed by stacking two graphene sheets...
Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes
This Nature Nanotechnology paper addresses a central bottleneck for graphene as a commercial replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO): scaling. While...
Ultrahigh electron mobility in suspended graphene
This paper asks whether suspending single-layer graphene from its substrate can reveal graphene’s intrinsic (nearly defect-free) transport by...
THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
This paper describes the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission and reports its initial on-orbit performance. The central “research...
Graphene photonics and optoelectronics
This Nature Photonics review, “Graphene photonics and optoelectronics” by Bonaccorso, Sun, Hasan, and Ferrari (2010), addresses a broad research...
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
This paper asks whether adding an explicit visual attention mechanism to neural image caption generation improves both caption quality and...
Perfect Metamaterial Absorber
This paper asks how to design a metamaterial absorber that can absorb nearly all incident electromagnetic power within a single, subwavelength...
Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning
This paper asks whether deep reinforcement learning for continuous-action control can be made stable and effective without discretizing actions, and...
Understanding individual human mobility patterns
The paper asks a fundamental question in mobility science: what simple statistical laws govern individual human movement? This matters because human...
Inception-v4, Inception-ResNet and the Impact of Residual Connections on Learning
This paper asks whether residual connections—introduced in prior work to improve optimization of very deep networks—provide additional benefits when...
Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning
This paper, “Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning” (Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 2020), is a broad survey and research...
SpecAugment: A Simple Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition
This paper asks a practical but high-impact question for automatic speech recognition (ASR): can we improve end-to-end speech recognition accuracy...
Well-Tempered Metadynamics: A Smoothly Converging and Tunable Free-Energy Method
This paper addresses a central problem in molecular simulation: how to compute the free-energy surface (FES) as a function of a small set of...
Brain tumor segmentation with Deep Neural Networks
This paper addresses a central problem in neuro-oncology: automatically segmenting glioma/brain tumor subregions in multimodal MRI. The authors’...
Intelligent Clinical Documentation: Harnessing Generative AI for Patient-Centric Clinical Note Generation
This paper asks whether generative AI can reduce the documentation burden on clinicians by automatically producing structured clinical notes from...
The Banana Bridge - The Unitary Kinematic Solution to the Hubble Tension and the 1.618 x 137 Master Law
This paper addresses a central problem in observational cosmology: how to convert geometric distance measurements in the Milky Way into an accurate...
Beware of metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative artificial intelligence on learning motivation, processes, and performance
This paper asks whether using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)—specifically ChatGPT—changes learners’ intrinsic motivation, their...
Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-rate WLANs
This paper asks a practical but fundamental question about fairness in multi-rate IEEE 802.11 WLANs: when stations use different PHY data rates...
Artificial Protozoa Optimizer (APO): A novel bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for engineering optimization
This paper addresses a core problem in engineering and computer science: how to efficiently find high-quality solutions to optimization tasks that...
Discrimination, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic decision-making
This report by Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius (Council of Europe, Anti-discrimination department) addresses a central question for decision sciences...
Tackling the Algorithmic Control Crisis -- the Technical, Legal, and Ethical Challenges of Research into Algorithmic Agents
This paper addresses a central research problem in the study of algorithmic systems: how can scholars empirically investigate the individual and...
DESI 2024 VII: cosmological constraints from the full-shape modeling of clustering measurements
This DESI Collaboration paper asks how well cosmological parameters can be constrained when one goes beyond the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)...
The Perfect Match? A Closer Look at the Relationship between EU Consumer Law and Data Protection Law
This paper asks how EU consumer protection law and EU data protection law relate to one another in “data-driven” digital markets—especially where...
Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning
This paper asks a simple but largely unanswered question in reinforcement learning (RL): can an agent learn useful behavior when it receives only...
Extended dark energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements
This paper asks whether the late-time acceleration of the Universe is consistent with a cosmological constant (ΛCDM) or instead requires dynamical...
FBRT-YOLO: Faster and Better for Real-Time Aerial Image Detection
This paper addresses a practical bottleneck in real-time aerial image detection: how to improve small-target detection accuracy without sacrificing...
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update
This Physics Reports white paper update addresses a central question in precision particle physics: what is the Standard Model (SM) prediction for...
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual taxonomy, applications and challenges
This paper addresses a conceptual and practical problem in the generative AI era: the field often uses the terms “AI Agents” and “Agentic AI”...
Exploring superconductivity under strong coupling with the vacuum electromagnetic field
This paper investigates whether superconductivity can be enhanced when the relevant lattice vibrations of a superconductor are placed in the...
DESI 2024 II: sample definitions, characteristics, and two-point clustering statistics
This DESI Collaboration paper addresses a practical but central question for precision cosmology: how to construct and validate large-scale structure...
WHEN BI-INTERPRETABILITY IMPLIES SYNONYMY
This paper studies a central question in model theory and the philosophy of mathematics: when are two formal theories “the same”? Two prominent...
Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C<sub>24</sub>H<sub>11</sub>CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1
This paper asks whether a specific, large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) derivative—cyanocoronene, formula ring PAH cyanocoronene ring PAH...
New constraints on interacting dark energy from DESI DR2 BAO observations
This paper asks how new Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements from DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) constrain models in which dark energy (DE) and...
DeePMD-kit v3: A Multiple-Backend Framework for Machine Learning Potentials
This paper addresses a practical but increasingly central bottleneck in machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulation: most MLP...
KiDS-Legacy: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear with the complete Kilo-Degree Survey
This paper asks how well the completed Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) can constrain late-time structure growth and cosmology using cosmic shear,...
Small object detection: A comprehensive survey on challenges, techniques and real-world applications
This paper, “Small object detection: A comprehensive survey on challenges, techniques and real-world applications” (Intelligent Systems with...
Cosmology in Extended Parameter Space with DESI Data Release 2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A 2<i>σ</i>+ Detection of Nonzero Neutrino Masses with an Update on Dynamical Dark Energy and Lensing Anomaly
This paper asks whether recent large-scale-structure measurements from DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) BAO, when combined with CMB, supernovae, and...
A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at <i>z</i> = 3.5
This paper investigates the origin of the extreme rest-optical spectral feature known as the Balmer break in a compact, red, high-redshift galaxy...
Orthogonal splitting of the Riemann curvature tensor and its implications in modeling compact stellar structures
This paper asks how to quantify “complexity” inside compact stellar objects when gravity is modeled not by standard general relativity (GR) but by...
Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Altermagnets: From Model to Material Realization
This Nano Letters paper addresses a central materials-design problem in multiferroic spintronics: how to realize ferroelectric altermagnets (FEAMs)...
Challenging the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>Λ</mml:mi></mml:math>CDM model: 5<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>σ</mml:mi></mml:math> evidence for a dynamical dark energy late-time transition
This paper addresses a central question in modern cosmology: is dark energy (DE) consistent with a cosmological constant ( \(w=-1\)) or does it...
Towards a non-singular paradigm of black hole physics
This paper, “Towards a non-singular paradigm of black hole physics” (J. Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025), is not a single new theoretical...
Constraints on neutrino physics from DESI DR2 BAO and DR1 full shape
This paper asks how well current large-scale structure (LSS) measurements can constrain neutrino properties—specifically the sum of neutrino masses...
Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-Access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
This paper studies how to make reliable task offloading and resource allocation decisions in an aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC) system where...
exoALMA. III. Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks
This paper addresses a practical but scientifically central question in protoplanetary disk spectroscopy: how can we reliably extract the physical...
Modified gravity constraints from the full shape modeling of clustering measurements from DESI 2024
This paper asks whether the growth of cosmic structure and gravitational lensing signals measured by DESI can reveal deviations from general...
exoALMA. XII. Weighing and Sizing exoALMA Disks with Rotation Curve Modelling
This paper addresses a central problem in protoplanetary disk physics: how to measure fundamental disk properties—stellar mass, gas (disk) mass, and...
exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline
This paper, “exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline” (Loomis et al. 2025), addresses a practical but scientifically central question: how...
Filtering for Copyright Enforcement in Europe after the Sabam cases
This paper examines whether two landmark Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decisions—Scarlet v Sabam (C-70/10) and Sabam v Netlog...
Google Spain v. Gonzáles: Did the Court forget about freedom of expression?
This paper is a legal-analytic commentary on the CJEU’s landmark decision in Case C-131/12, Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de...
Educational impacts of generative artificial intelligence on learning and performance of engineering students in China
This paper asks how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is currently being used by engineering students in China and what students perceive as...
Modified Gravity Realizations of Quintom Dark Energy after DESI DR2
This paper asks whether the “quintom” form of dynamical dark energy—specifically an equation-of-state (EoS) parameter that crosses the phantom divide...
Quantitative Reifenberg theorem for measures
This paper studies a quantitative version of Reifenberg-type theorems for measures in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), replacing the classical uniform two-sided...
DUET: Dual Clustering Enhanced Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
The paper addresses a core problem in multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF): how to achieve accurate predictions when (i) the temporal behavior...
Reputation in public goods cooperation under double <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si51.svg" display="inline" id="d1e1286"><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi></mml:math>-learning protocol
This paper asks how cooperation in a spatial public goods game (PGG) changes when (i) players’ investment is heterogeneous and depends on both the...
Independent connection in action during inflation
This paper asks whether the inflationary epoch can be explained without introducing an ad hoc inflaton sector, by instead using a dynamical affine...
Enhancement of primordial curvature perturbations in <i>R</i> <sup>3</sup> -corrected Starobinsky-Higgs inflation
This paper studies whether a higher-curvature correction to the Starobinsky-Higgs (Higgs–\(R^2\)) inflation model can simultaneously (i) fit CMB...
Krylov complexity as an order parameter for quantum chaotic-integrable transitions
This paper asks whether a specific feature of Krylov complexity—its “Krylov complexity peak” (KCP)—can serve as an order parameter for the transition...
exoALMA. VI. Rotating under Pressure: Rotation Curves, Azimuthal Velocity Substructures, and Gas Pressure Variations
This paper asks whether small-scale deviations from Keplerian rotation in protoplanetary disks—measured with ALMA at high angular and spectral...
RUBIES: A spectroscopic census of little red dots
This paper addresses a central ambiguity in early-universe galaxy/AGN demographics revealed by JWST: what physical population underlies “little red...
From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the Context of the Ōtautahi–Oxford Interstellar Object Population Model
This Astrophysical Journal Letters paper asks how the newly discovered third interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS (“3I”), fits within a physically...
Pressure Inside Hadrons: Criticism, Conjectures, and All That
This paper is a conceptual and technical review of Maxim Polyakov’s influential proposal to interpret the hadronic energy–momentum tensor (EMT)...
-dual quintessence, the Swampland, and the DESI DR2 results
This paper asks whether a specific class of quintessence dark-energy models—constructed to respect an “S-duality” symmetry—can simultaneously (i)...
Neutrino Electromagnetic Properties
This Annual Review article, “Neutrino Electromagnetic Properties” (Giunti, Kouzakov, Li, Studenikin, 2025), addresses a central question in neutrino...