Ryuta Kuwamizu's team reports in iScience that young adults' pupils dilated while counting aloud in all three experiments. Silent counting always produced smaller pupil changes, and their direction depended on the task.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Ukrainian firms swap air for a printed lattice in ground-robot tires
Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D have developed a 3D-printable airless tire for Ukrainian ground robots, Popular Science reports. It is already in use at the front, the outlet says, but every performance claim comes from the companies.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
Newspaper syndication spread a term paper's ergot theory of Salem across the US and Canada in weeks
Historian Margo Burns says newspaper syndication carried Linnda Caporael's 1976 ergot paper across the US and Canada within weeks. Joe Rogan discussed the theory enthusiastically on his show as recently as 2023, though it was debunked within a year.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap
- Not scored
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Scientific American layoffs revive echoes of the 1986 science magazine crash
Scientific American's June 2026 sale cost 15 jobs. The count now used to place that loss in the history of science media tracks print magazine closures back to the 19th century, and a newsroom that shrinks and keeps publishing counts as a survivor.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives20
- Confidence55
From Omaha students to ICE: the shock glove sold as camera-proof force
Compliant Technologies pitches its electric glove as compliance without the bad video. The specification being sold is not less pain, it is less evidence.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence42