Migraine with aura has been tied to higher stroke and heart attack risk for years without anyone showing how. Four newly funded projects go after the cell biology, and the flagship one starts in the laboratory.
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- Hype gap+35
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Elisabeth Bik's 2016 survey of more than 20,000 papers documented 782 image duplications. The publisher of Physics World now assigns six research-integrity officers to misconduct cases that were once rare in physics.
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- Hype gap+20
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Chunlei Guo's group at Rochester reports a solar evaporator that moves salt off the hot absorbing zone and dries it at the panel edges. The test fluid was real seawater, magnesium and calcium included.
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A corrected melting curve for carbon is the real product here. It does double duty, governing where diamond turns liquid inside Neptune and how hard a fusion capsule should be hit on the first shock.
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- Evidence58
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
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LLNL says its Nature Physics measurement reconciles diamond melting data with quantum simulations, and that applying it to inertial-confinement fusion could triple energy gain.
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- Evidence52
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives66
- Confidence46