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8-Dec-2025

Not the largest supercomputer, but maybe the most interesting

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new kind of supercomputer has arrived at Sandia National Laboratories, and while it’s not the largest in the world, it may be one of the most unconventional.

Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration

8-Dec-2025

$3.2M NIH grant to test and refine a heart pump for long-term use in children

Penn State
Grant and Award Announcement

With a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team from Pen State College of Medicine will develop a small, durable ventricular assist device (VAD) designed specifically for young, growing children between the ages of one and 11 years old. Currently, there are no heart pumps approved for long-term use for this age group. The device, called the PSU Child VAD, could provide long-term support for children with heart failure while waiting for a heart transplant, greatly improving quality of life and outcomes.

Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

8-Dec-2025

Quanta Books to publish popular math and physics titles by Terence Tao and David Tong

Simons Foundation
Book Announcement

Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David Tong. Six Math Essentials will be Tao’s first math book written for a popular audience. Tong’s book, Everything Is Fields, will illuminate quantum field theory — the physics that explains the fundamental makeup of the universe — drawing from Tong’s distinguished track record as a quantum field theorist and public communicator.

8-Dec-2025

When companies “go green,” air quality impacts can vary dramatically

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Many organizations are taking actions to shrink their carbon footprint, such as purchasing electricity from renewable sources or reducing air travel. MIT researchers found that even if each activity achieves the same CO2 reduction, the broader air quality impacts can be quite different.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters
Funder: Biogen, Inc, The Italian Ministry for Environment, Land, and Sea, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

8-Dec-2025

Low precision training achieves win-win in efficiency and accuracy

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Decreasing Precision with layer Capacity trains deep neural networks with layer-wise shrinking precision, cutting cost by up to 44% and boosting accuracy by up to 0.68%

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science

8-Dec-2025

E2CNN: Entity-type-enriched cascaded neural network for Chinese financial relation extraction

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

E²CNN cascades span-type ID with subject-object extraction for Chinese financial knowledge graph construction

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science

8-Dec-2025

An approach for enhancing adversarial transferability based on common knowledge learning

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers distill multi-teacher common knowledge + gradient alignment into one substitute model

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science