Technical University of Denmark says a login with compromised credentials to its IAM system may have exposed data on up to 200,000 people. The records reach back to 2003, and active users' entries include CPR national ID numbers that DTU warns can be used for identity fraud.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence62
A Trends in Microbiology opinion piece from DTU and Copenhagen argues that temperature, oxygen and pH decide whether a resistance gene makes a bacterium resistant, while the standard laboratory test holds all three fixed and returns one binary answer.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+48
- Incentives68
- Confidence48
DTU's mAxialtrode packs a light-guiding core and eight liquid channels into a fiber thinner than half a millimetre. It worked in mice, and its developers say routine clinical use needs much more testing and regulatory approval.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Six researchers spent nearly a decade building a third computer proof of the four-color theorem, one that runs longer than the proofs that came before it. Their return was a much faster coloring method plus new structure in planar graphs.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Astronomers modelled a ribbon of stripped stars around a faint dwarf galaxy to weigh its dark matter, the first time the trick has worked anywhere but the Milky Way.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives66
- Confidence58
The Copenhagen startup says clinicians already write notes fast enough and cannot find what is in them. It is taking that thesis to the UK on a pre-seed round.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence34