EHU researchers scored heat-wave vulnerability for every building and open space in Bilbao, Madrid and Cáceres and found hot spots within each city. The team argues that adaptation money should follow the maps, down to which buildings get renovated first.
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- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives45
- Confidence45
Excavators near the Vatican found 21 Anglo-Saxon coins among 30, the first physical evidence, per New Scientist, that Rome's English quarter existed. The team argues the pennies were everyday money, a sign the English could use their own currency in part of the papal city.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
University of the Basque Country researchers led by Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts built a paper test that flags scopolamine in drinks in about 10 minutes. They call it a laboratory-level prototype whose detection ranges and color changes still need optimizing.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption2
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives45
- Confidence40
Saturn's northern hexagon has looked the same for more than 40 years, so a second polygon that only shows up in images from 2023 onward hands atmospheric modellers a formation they can watch happen rather than a finished structure to explain.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 39%
- Operator
- Operator 39%
- Investor
- Investor 22%
Reality
- Evidence78
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives30
- Confidence72
Physicists mapped the electronic topology of 8,872 atomically thin materials and named over 1,600 twisting candidates in two Science papers. The lists are calculations that tell labs where to look, and testing them in twisted devices comes next.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives35
- Confidence60
A team at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca measured how much rock 35 river basins have carried off the Basque-Cantabrian Range, then converted that lost weight into metres of rebound.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence62
A RIKEN-led team was mapping critical fields in a LaTiO3/KTaO3 heterostructure when a resistive peak split the superconducting state in two. The accident shows how thinly the phase competition in 2D has been mapped.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives38
- Confidence52