The hexagonal fossil burrow networks have been credited to worm-like animals since the 1970s, and a synthesis in Earth Science Reviews measures their corners and concludes the digger had jointed legs and a shell.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
A Science Advances team ran two idealized mitigation scenarios. Southern Ocean uptake weakened and then reversed in both, and in the negative-emissions run the globally averaged flux turned from sink to source in 2154.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
Male newborns are the heavier sex in most placental mammals the authors surveyed, which makes birth risk unequal for sons and daughters. Whether that inequality causes obstructed labour is still untested outside humans and farm animals.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
The seismograms had been sitting in archives since 1990. What changed is that a classifier could read 174,929 faint PKP precursors out of more than two million records, enough to join isolated patches into belts.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Storms crossing the weakest prestorm temperature gradients ended up around 40% stronger than those crossing the sharpest, which hands forecasters a predictor their coupled ocean models cannot yet resolve.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
The elliptic signal says neon-20 is not spherical. The triangular signal runs the wrong way, and no number for the deformation survives that disagreement.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence55
A Quaternary Science Reviews study redates Jebel Katefeh-1 to 60,000-50,000 years ago and reads its prepared flakes as Neanderthal work, at a median likelihood of 78 percent.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives32
- Confidence52