John Cryan's lab at University College Cork found only the decaf half of 31 coffee drinkers improved on two memory tests. Cryan suspects gut microbes, but the blinded trial ties them to the result without showing they caused it.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Serhiy Yanchuk's team at University College Cork found narrow 'funnels' extending from stable-state basins in simulations of up to 10 linked oscillators. Because the work rests on model systems, how far the funnels alter real climate or brain forecasts is an open question.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
University College Cork and University of Limerick psychologists found that celebrity deepfake victims who speak out can be targeted with fresh deepfakes. Victims also meet a myth that fabricated images do no harm, while removal depends on their own time and effort.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
University College Cork researchers report that 31 habitual coffee drinkers scored lower on stress and depression once coffee returned, decaf or not. Gut microbe and metabolite differences make a gut-brain route plausible, though arms of about 15 people keep it an association.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
Marguerite Nyhan's team at University College Cork spent three years inside Creative Ireland's second climate arts fund, gathering surveys, interviews and observations, and reports gains in capacity, motivation and social connection.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives70
- Confidence42
A University College Cork review argues that hearing children of deaf adults are absent from official data, and that the counting gap, not attitudes alone, keeps them outside family services.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives58
- Confidence38
Marama Labs says an integrating sphere strips scatter so LNP payload reads in 15 seconds without lysis or dyes. The precision figures come from the CEO and a study the company co-authored.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives82
- Confidence33