CSIRO and Adelaide University found lab-made honeybee silk films were well tolerated in healing wounds, with much of the film breaking down in place. Versions engineered to fight infection in chronic wounds are the next stage and were outside this study.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives45
- Confidence40
Adelaide University researchers provoked immune cells from 77 horses and measured interleukin-1 beta. The response tracked neither gastric lesions nor facial pain scores in a cohort where 59 of the 64 analysed horses had lesions.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives28
- Confidence58
The company's own blog post is the only account of the run, and an Adelaide University researcher who credits its long-horizon design still warns that open-ended worlds make causes harder to isolate and runs harder to compare.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives74
- Confidence44
An Adelaide-led team reports that magma feeding volcanoes in Western Australia's Pilbara Craton drew on a source that already held water, and proposes a pre-plate-tectonic process called dripduction to explain how it got down there.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
The dogs found the target about 90% of the time whether fed or fasted. The whole difference showed up in how readily they called a near-miss smell a hit, pointing at a threshold rather than at acuity.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
The rate is roughly double what earlier prevalence studies found, and most of that gap comes from counting the trust-building talk that precedes any sexual request. The authors call it a snapshot.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives55
- Confidence62
The strongest predictors of a feedlot respiratory death were fixed before the animal arrived, which makes buying and pre-transport handling the control point and leaves pen management working on risk that has already been assigned.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives58
- Confidence56
Zhengzhou and Adelaide researchers report a coloured textile that reflects 87.6 percent of sunlight. Measured at simulated skin, its margin over white cotton is 3.4C.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives58
- Confidence45
Twenty-four years of HILDA data show the hourly wage advantage of a degree peaked around 2010 and fell to 38% by 2024. The VET premium is down to 2%.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence62