Researchers at the e61-UNSW partnership found Australian households pay about 7.3% of their spending in GST at any spending level. Against one year's income the tax still looks regressive, so the yardstick matters to the debate over raising or broadening it.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Yihan Tian's group at UNSW tuned the channels between stacked graphene oxide sheets using alginate and calcium ions, then ran finished coffee through, removing about half the caffeine while four other compounds stayed detectable.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence52
Researchers at Western Sydney University and UNSW are fitting thousands of solar-powered ecological sensors with low Earth orbit radios, so measurements from remote plots arrive continuously instead of on a field trip.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence45
Cathy Xu's study of "it's giving" documents an ordinary verb taking complements it never used to take, and users who police the new pattern without a rulebook. She said in an interview that new usage now spreads in a couple of years.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
After four or five years of cultures that would not grow, a UNSW-led team finally had something it could image. The result gives eukaryogenesis a living analogue for the stage before one cell ended up inside another.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
The GCRMN's 2025 assessment, built on more than 21 million observations, puts global hard coral cover down 9.5% and the interval between bleaching events at five to six years, short enough that the next hit lands before a recovery finishes.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption63
- Hype gap−16
- Incentives58
- Confidence68