Washington University in St. Louis

University named as having profited from SpaceX, with no position size disclosed in the report.

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Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis

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scienceConfirmed2 publishers

Memory T cells' balance of granzyme K and granzyme B tracks with how healthily people age

Washington University's Maxim Artyomov and colleagues link memory T cells favoring granzyme K over granzyme B to healthier aging in a study in Immunity. The 17-year link to illness and death comes from UK Biobank adults whose cell levels were estimated from blood proteins, so the case for an aging blood test is still indirect.

Publishers:genengnews.comlivescience.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+25
Incentives35
Confidence58

investOne report1 publisher

Google's open-source RRSI rewrites agent scaffolding to add six points on Terminal-Bench

Google Cloud AI Research has released RRSI, an Apache 2.0 tool whose self-rewriting agent harness lifted Terminal-Bench 2.1 scores from 74.2% to 80.2%. Any team can use it commercially, though on tasks the agent never trained against the reported gain falls to 4.7 points.

Publishers:cryptobriefing.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives50
Confidence40

scienceOne report1 publisher

An AI-drafted pre-bunk still blunted rumor damage to voter confidence a week later

Pre-bunking has strong evidence behind it, though the cost of producing it has been prohibitive. The Caltech-led team's fix is to spend the human expertise once. The trial measured stated belief, leaving open how the pre-bunk affects forwarding behavior.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption15
Hype gap+22
Incentives70
Confidence45

scienceOne report1 publisher

Psilocybin's 'oneness' now has a brain-network correlate, and it was found by sorting people on self-report

A Nature study of 62 psychedelic-naive adults reports that the feeling of dissolved self-world boundaries tracks integration between self-referential and sensory networks.

Publishers:scientificamerican.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+18
Incentives40
Confidence52

investOne report1 publisher

Harvard's $2.2 billion SpaceX position is half its disclosed US equity book

A single 13F line turns a decade-old venture bet into a marked-to-market concentration: one stock, about 51% of disclosed equities, and roughly 4% of a $57 billion endowment.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence61
Adoption58
Hype gap+14
Incentives38
Confidence58