Higher temperatures cut carbon exudation from the roots of two common tree species
Higher temperatures drove down how much carbon the roots of two common tree species exude, a Dartmouth-led New Phytologist study found. Lead author Thomas Muratore expects exudation to fall wherever temperatures rise and soil nitrogen does not.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence45
Dartmouth's inquiry into its own provost tests whether campus AI rules reach the top
Dartmouth College is investigating AI use in provost Santiago Schnell's writing after a detector scored his essay on AI cheating 100% AI-written. In his apology he names disclosure as the rule he broke, and a college can apply that rule to its provost and its students alike.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence40
Researchers map 88 deepfake abuse sites to Cloudflare, Google, Namecheap, WordPress and Proton
Dartmouth and Lancaster researchers tie 88 non-consensual deepfake sites to five mainstream web providers led by Cloudflare, Google and Namecheap. The sites surfaced in keyword searches and every provider already bans illegal use, so the gap the study points to is enforcement.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
Forty years of satellite images show shrubs spreading inside northeastern alpine zones
Dartmouth and Appalachian Mountain Club researchers found significant vegetation gains in 69% of alpine zones between the Adirondacks and the Gaspe. The growth runs fastest on wind-sheltered slopes, where ground surveys will have to settle whether rare flowering plants are losing out.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Four decades of EU land protection show no effect on vegetation cover or night lights
Prakash Mishra and his co-authors measured the causal effect of EU land protection over four decades and found nothing on vegetation cover or nighttime lights, and he traces the result to who chose the parcels.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
The founder of a deepfake-detection firm verifies his wife's calls with a safeword
Two detection chief executives describe their own products as probabilities rather than verdicts. That is the constraint to design around before a score is allowed to fail a student or close an account.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
A Proc R Soc B paper argues that fire added as much as four hours to the day, and that fireside storytelling pushed human communication past the ape repertoire. The part worth watching is that a lab can check most of it.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives56
- Confidence63
A former Fed advisor's case against running QT at one speed
Andrew Levin argues that a portfolio holding roughly 30% of Treasury notes and bonds and over 40% of agency MBS needs case-specific runoff, not a uniform exit.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives48
- Confidence27