Retatrutide's 12 mg dose cut body weight 25% over 80 weeks, versus 3.9% on placebo, in a 2,339-adult phase 3 trial in NEJM. Its near-30% two-year figure comes from 532 completers, and because placebo was the only comparator, the trial cannot rank the drug against Ozempic.
Reality
- Evidence65
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Yale-led work in The Astrophysical Journal Letters ran the ASTRID simulation without fixing black holes to galactic centres. Mergers left them off-centre for billions of years, most often in the smallest galaxies.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives50
- Confidence55
A Yale-led team writing in Nature argues that crushed limestone spread on farmland across 41 percent of the contiguous United States removes more CO2 than it releases, because the acid it neutralises would have released CO2 anyway.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
Yale researchers read the original makeup of planetesimals that melted so thoroughly their textures vanished, and place the Solar System's preference for heat-formed rock beads inside the first million years.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence48
Yale chemists checked hydride placements in one open-shell cobalt crystal against a neutron structure, and the microcrystal electron diffractometer came closest. The comparison rests on that single compound.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence55
The first report from the Fed's outside review of its own Silicon Valley Bank supervision backs most of what three earlier audits found, but clears the social media posts blamed in 2023 of creating the condition depositors ran from.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives60
- Confidence52
A Yale-led team could not sample planetesimals from the first million years, because every one of them melted, so it reconstructed their make-up from sulfur and iron oxidation in iron meteorites and got 8% to 17% icy dust.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
The hand, the page size and the annotation colour all match, which is how six loose leaves in a Brighton archive were fitted to Takamiya MS 20 at Yale. Sir John Gage's motives are the softer part of the case.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence66
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
A Yale group reports in Nature Catalysis that exciting CO2 in a plasma before it reaches a copper electrode yields methanol and butane, products the team says electrocatalysis alone does not make. The cell runs at room temperature.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
Getting Tesla from $1.43tn to $8.5tn means adding $7.07tn. A $1tn option package against that gap works out to 14.1 cents of every new dollar - cheap if it buys a million robotaxis, expensive if it merely buys an executive's attention.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Weekly GPS from thousands of tracked animals, matched against anonymized phone traces from 2019 and 2020, ties human presence to shifts in range and niche for roughly two-thirds of mammal and bird species. That points management toward access as much as acreage.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives68
- Confidence54
In some specimens fewer than 1% of the genome could be read, coverage most pipelines throw away. The Yale team placed those fragments against a tree of good genomes instead, which is why the museum drawer is the real finding.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives68
- Confidence47
Floods in the Congo Basin's Lac Télé reserve arrive earlier and stay longer, but a year of interviews in six of 27 villages found timing and coping so village-specific that one basin-wide adaptation plan would misfire.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence42
The benchmark problem of quantum many-body physics has been solved for specific materials using their actual structure. The senior author calls the systems studied a prototype for harder cases.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence55
Brookhaven says its Quantum Lighthouse is the first permanent free-space optical link on the network. The 13-mile air hop is running; the 30-mile crossing to Yale is still pending.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence48
The open-air hop carried entangled pairs only at night, and each end needed a purpose-built rooftop terminal. What it buys is wavelengths that telecom fiber does not serve.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives58
- Confidence38
Google's Gemma milestone arrives with an engineer's caveat and no breakdown. Alibaba's rival claim of 3bn Qwen downloads is about 1.5 times what Hugging Face independently counted.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption61
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives79
- Confidence52
A Rutgers-led study of 122 people found synaptic loss that follows the brain's chemistry and wiring, not a diffuse smear, and modelling points to a left frontal starting point.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives68
- Confidence44
A dev.to essay argues the five minutes you save answering a junior from a chat window comes back as a capability gap about a year later. Two 2026 studies describe the same drift.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives25
- Confidence52