David Rosenthal says ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license in advising on his medications
David Rosenthal, 39, sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license when it advised him on medications and dosages. Teams shipping chatbots that answer health questions have a pleaded theory to weigh, and no ruling is reported yet.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
Binghamton's villi-shaped bacterial anode holds about 0.75 volts for 14 hours in the lab
Binghamton University researchers built a villi-inspired hydrogel anode that held about 0.75 volts for at least 14 hours with Bacillus subtilis. The team says it could eventually run low-power devices from wastewater pipelines.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Binghamton University researchers found breakfast, exercise and sleep habits tracked with psychological flexibility in 400-plus college students. The authors say the habits seem to build it, but survey data alone cannot show which came first.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence62
Falling water level drove about half the Dead Sea's deep-water warming in a GFZ-led model
Emmanuel Guillerm's model attributes 1.5C of the Dead Sea's 2.8C deep-water warming from 1979 to 2019 to the lake's own falling level. Saltier brine cools itself less as it evaporates, so the same loop may help explain ancient salt beds that formed without an exceptionally hot climate.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Global review catalogues the ways vertebrates use insects beyond eating them
Researchers from eight countries reviewed hundreds of studies and found vertebrates use insects as medicine, shelter and bait as well as food. Their Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper says studies of insect decline rarely count anything beyond lost food.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives35
- Confidence50
Binghamton's entropy-ranked guesses solved 99% of simulated Wordle puzzles
A Binghamton team scored each candidate word by how much uncertainty it was expected to remove and reported solving 99 percent of simulated Wordle puzzles. The university did not say how many games it simulated.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Sediment DNA at Crawford Lake catches early-1800s cattle the traditional record missed
By pulling DNA out of annually layered mud, a team rebuilt 1,000 years of plants, animals, bacteria and fungi at the lake proposed as the Anthropocene's marker, confirming decades of earlier work and adding cattle the older methods never saw.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives45
- Confidence58
Radiomics for brain tumor recurrence: 0.91 AUC, one dataset, and a scaling knob
A Scientific Reports workflow reports a held-out AUC of 0.91 against 0.81 for PCA and 0.75 for mRMR on the UMMC benchmark. The authors call the findings preliminary and externally unvalidated.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives22
- Confidence45