A German project measured cardiac magnetism using nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond of less than half a cubic millimetre, working at room temperature and off the skin.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
Physicists in Stuttgart kept a circular Rydberg atom's electron in a stable orbit for 11 milliseconds without cryogenic cooling, and held the atom in an optical tweezer for 133 milliseconds. Both are records for these giant atoms.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence56
Francesco Romano's design collects the residual air that drags satellites down and turns it into plasma, and his models put indefinite flight between 190 and 250 kilometres inside a standard satellite's power budget.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives25
- Confidence45
The €50M extension carries HyImpulse past €125M of equity and public money, but the agency's willingness to own one of four European contenders reads louder than the cheque, in a year when Europe flew under 10 orbital launches.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
A Physical Review Letters paper argues valley-imbalanced rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can pair at several incommensurate momenta at once. It hands experimentalists a specific thing to look for.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence42