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University of Gothenburg

University of Gothenburg is a public research university in Sweden offering studies across sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Known aliases

  • Göteborgs universitet
  • Gothenburg University
  • GU

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Swedish schoolchildren slightly prefer less meat per recipe to more all-vegetarian days

Swedish researchers surveyed 1,268 pupils, who were somewhat more open to less meat per recipe than to more all-vegetarian days. That favours kitchens trimming meat inside familiar dishes, on the evidence of what pupils said in one municipality.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
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Confidence55
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Spin waves imaged inside a nano-oscillator launch harder from one edge than the other

A Gothenburg and HZB team filmed magnetization dynamics inside a CoFeB spin Hall nano-oscillator at BESSY II. Simulations matched the movies only after grain boundaries, weakened anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction were added.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+14
Incentives70
Confidence58
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A six-year follow-up of Swedish pupils traces peer sexual harassment back to Grade 4

Aziz-Kaan Donmez followed the same children annually from Grades 4 to 9 and found reported victimization climbing until Grade 7, with boys affected as often as girls and no clean line between those who harass and those harassed.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence36
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives66
Confidence50
scienceOne report1 publisher

Fossil-record rates put an early speciation burst at the start of the archosauromorph radiation

An international team reconstructed speciation and extinction rates for the reptile group that produced dinosaurs and crocodiles. The shape matches what family trees have shown, and three hypotheses still compete to explain the slowdown.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives52
Confidence60
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The Arctic's 10-inch laboratory is losing its control condition

Alaska's North Slope tundra stays small because winter punishes anything above the snow. That ceiling is lifting by roughly 0.7C a decade, and the baseline it held cannot be collected twice.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence44