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SSA: Semantic Structure Aware Inference for Weakly Pixel-Wise Dense Predictions without Cost

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study introduces a Semantic Structure-Aware model to enhance Class Activation Mapping for image classification, achieving state-of-the-art performance in weakly-supervised tasks without extra training.

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science

UTA team wins prize for vital US magnet technology

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Texas at Arlington physics Professor J. Ping Liu has won the 2025 Hill Prize in Physical Sciences for pioneering new ways to design magnets that power high-tech devices. Awarded by the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the prize recognizes groundbreaking innovations with the potential for real-world impact. Dr. Liu shares the award as co-principal investigator alongside James Chelikowsky, a professor of physics and chemical engineering at UT Austin.

Funder: Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Emotive marketing for sustainable consumption?

University of Göttingen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Does triggering certain emotions increase willingness to pay for sustainably produced food? In social media, emotional messages are often used to influence users' consumer behaviour. An international research team including the University of Göttingen investigated the short- and medium-term effects of such content on consumers' willingness to pay for bars of chocolate. They found that in the short term, provoking certain emotions increases willingness to pay, but the effect weakens after a very short time. The results were published in the journal Q Open.

Journal: Q Open

Salt influx from land and sea spells ‘double trouble’ for drinking water

University of Maryland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world’s rivers, streams and estuaries to a “saltier future,” according to a new study led by University of Maryland GeologyProfessor Sujay Kaushal in collaboration with researchers from other institutions.

Journal: Biogeochemistry

IMDEA Networks participates in a European project to create 6G networks that interact intelligently with reality

IMDEA Networks Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

IMDEA Networks is part of MultiX, a European scientific project involving 17 research centers and technology companies from 7 countries coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), which aims to revolutionize future 6G communication networks by transforming their design and operation. By means of an innovative system that integrates multisensory perception, MultiX aims to make networks capable of intelligently observing the environment and interacting with it in real time. This innovation seeks to transform sectors as relevant as healthcare facilities or the autonomous vehicle industry.

With $2M in grants, Arizona engineers push toward a quantum computing future

University of Arizona College of Engineering
Grant and Award Announcement

Adoption of quantum technologies has been stymied by factor, including high error rates. These mistakes occur because quantum systems are highly sensitive to external disturbances like temperature and sound. Effective error correction would protect high-performance data processing, but this area of research has had limited exploration, until now.

Funder: U.S. Army

Study discovers tuberculosis genes necessary for airborne transmission

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person’s lungs to another person’s during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The findings provide new targets for tuberculosis therapies that could simultaneously treat infection and prevent the spread of bacteria.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences