UC San Diego-led researchers report perovskite solar cells and LEDs at around 24% to 26% efficiency, grown with a temporary liquid phase. In the one durability result the report describes, the solar cells kept most of their efficiency through eight weeks of simulated sunlight.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Researchers in Korea found Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses two proteins, SlkA and SlkB, to plug the channels its pili pass through and block antibiotics. They say disrupting the plugs could be a way to make existing antibiotics work against a hard-to-treat superbug.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
Do Hyun Ryu's group at Sungkyunkwan University published two asymmetric catalysis papers in Angewandte Chemie, one running two carbon-carbon bond formations off a single catalyst and one building tetrahydrofuran rings from achiral inputs.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
The Drexel lab that made the first MXenes in 2011 has grown them by chemical vapor deposition, with Penn and Murata Manufacturing as collaborators, skipping the MAX-phase precursor and the acid bath that has limited their use.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix help design Korean university degrees that fund students for years and then hire them at ordinary entry-level pay. Applicants are queuing 13.44 and 9.14 deep for each seat.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption61
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives68
- Confidence58
Jongro Academy counted a record 8,994 early applications to 13 corporate contract programs for the 2027 year, up 18.2 percent. The 297-to-1 ratio being quoted is three seats at Sogang University. Battery, down 36.2 percent, is one department.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence62
South Korea's new medical school track asks students for ten years of practice in the region that admits them. In its first early-admissions round it drew more applications per seat than the existing track that carries no service requirement.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Applications to the five universities that guarantee jobs at Samsung and SK hynix rose 972 to a record 5,992 for the 2027 cycle, with 675 of the additional forms going to the SK hynix side and competition per place reaching 28.53.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption79
- Hype gap+11
- Incentives58
- Confidence56
A Seoul National University team varied the ozone dose during deposition, then watched 10-nanometre films crystallize under synchrotron X-rays, and the vacancy-rich ones crystallized later while holding on to the nonferroelectric phase.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence55