Researchers linked the tapeworm drug niclosamide to a carrier that cleared detectable endometriosis lesions in up to five of eight treated mice after one dose. It points to a non-hormonal option for a disease with no cure, though the test used eight mice per group over two weeks.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence55
Washington State University found soil in Alaska's permafrost region warmed 0.64 degrees C a decade from 1997 to 2023, about double the rest of the state. The authors point to snow cover, an inference from comparing 43 stations across regions where the air itself warmed at different rates.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
A Washington State University team spent 40 print runs against a 100-million-option parameter space and came back with six working settings for GRCop-42, including a first at 500 watts.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence60
A Washington State University-led study is the first to put land-based and offshore sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon into a single account. The result is a map of where the human share dominates.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence55
A Washington State University-led team could not grow these MERS relatives, so it rebuilt their spike proteins and screened aminopeptidase N from about 30 species, finding the human version unusable and the cat, rat and elephant shrew versions open.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
Cameron Peace's lab at Washington State matched leaves collected from old Maine farms to an apple ancestor his pedigree had inferred but never sampled. The tree that supplied them is still standing.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Cannabis marketing sits in a gap alcohol advertisers were pushed out of decades ago. A Washington State experiment shows what young adults take from those ads, and why that is still short of an effect a regulator could cite.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence44
A tripling of days above 105 F in the US arrives long before the theoretical survivability limit does. The operational threshold is a healthy adult in the shade, and parts of the country already cross it.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives45
- Confidence44
Economists at Washington State and Pompeu Fabra model fishery certification as a signaling game: stock decline screens out weak operators, while climate windfalls and subsidies invite false claims.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence45