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University of Innsbruck

Austrian public university in Innsbruck conducting research across atmospheric science, archaeology, physics, and chemistry.

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  • Universität Innsbruck

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Ultracold cesium chains give indirect evidence of Bethe strings

Physicists cooled cesium atoms into single-file chains and found indirect evidence of Bethe strings, bound clusters of at least six atoms. Co-author Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says the fit to theory is not proof and does not expect the strings to be long-lived.

Publishers:livescience.com

Reality

Evidence55
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Hype gap+25
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Confidence55
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Innsbruck physicists prove that some ideal agents gain the most energy by forgetting what they did

Innsbruck physicists prove that, in some environments, an ideal agent extracts the most energy only by forgetting parts of its own action history. Lead author Lukas Fiderer said today's computers are still far from that limit, so for now the result sketches what efficient agents could look like.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
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Hype gap+15
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Confidence55
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Cesium atoms trapped in one-dimensional tubes bind into the Bethe strings predicted in 1931

University of Innsbruck physicists made Bethe strings, predicted by Hans Bethe in 1931, from cesium atoms in thousands of one-dimensional tubes. Because the atoms' attraction is tunable, physicists now have a controllable gas for studying bound states of many particles.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence45
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Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence50
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An Antiquity study counts 500 La Tène iron bars in a tonne of metal dredged from the Danube

Peter Trebsche and Marion Berranger count 193 complete bars and 307 partial ones from Deinham in Austria, Europe's largest prehistoric iron find, radiocarbon dated to the La Tene period and recovered from gravel heaps that destroyed its context.

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Reality

Evidence65
Adoption
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Hype gap+15
Incentives
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Confidence70
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Structures of RhoBAST catch one guanosine flipping outward to make room for the dye

Ronald Micura's group in Innsbruck and Aiming Ren's in Zhejiang solved the RNA imaging tag with and without dye bound, and the residue that moves, G38, is what lets the dye leave again fast enough to blink.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
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Hype gap+18
Incentives55
Confidence60
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Alpine melt outran the stakes measuring it: ETH Zurich's tubes came free of the ice

Andreas Bauder has drilled mass-balance stakes into Swiss glaciers for twenty years. This summer the melt released them, and the monitoring network had to be repaired while it was being read.

Publishers:newscientist.com

Reality

Evidence71
Adoption44
Hype gap+6
Incentives38
Confidence63
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Vienna's plan to put a trapped-ion quantum computer inside an electron microscope

The result is mathematical rather than measured: entangle each electron with an ion, combine across electrons, and fewer electrons buy the same signal. No factor is stated anywhere.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption8
Hype gap+38
Incentives66
Confidence58