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University of the Basque Country

Public university in Spain's Basque Country, known as UPV/EHU, offering teaching and research across sciences, engineering, and humanities.

Known aliases

  • Bilbao School of Engineering
  • EHU
  • Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  • Universidad del País Vasco
  • University of the Basque Country-EHU
  • UPV/EHU

Current stories

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Building-level maps locate heat-wave hot spots inside Bilbao, Madrid and Cáceres

EHU researchers scored heat-wave vulnerability for every building and open space in Bilbao, Madrid and Cáceres and found hot spots within each city. The team argues that adaptation money should follow the maps, down to which buildings get renovated first.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence45
scienceConfirmed2 publishers

Anglo-Saxon pennies found near the Vatican suggest the English spent their own coin in part of Rome

Excavators near the Vatican found 21 Anglo-Saxon coins among 30, the first physical evidence, per New Scientist, that Rome's English quarter existed. The team argues the pennies were everyday money, a sign the English could use their own currency in part of the papal city.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives
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Confidence60
scienceOne report1 publisher

EHU paper device turns color in about 10 minutes when a drink contains scopolamine

University of the Basque Country researchers led by Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts built a paper test that flags scopolamine in drinks in about 10 minutes. They call it a laboratory-level prototype whose detection ranges and color changes still need optimizing.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption2
Hype gap+30
Incentives45
Confidence40
scienceConfirmed8 publishers

Hubble caught a ten-sided jet wave assembling at Saturn's south pole

Saturn's northern hexagon has looked the same for more than 40 years, so a second polygon that only shows up in images from 2023 onward hands atmospheric modellers a formation they can watch happen rather than a finished structure to explain.

Perspective Coverage

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Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
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Hype gap+15
Incentives30
Confidence72
scienceOne report1 publisher

Two Science papers catalog 8,872 atomically thin layers to guide the search for twisted quantum materials

Physicists mapped the electronic topology of 8,872 atomically thin materials and named over 1,600 twisting candidates in two Science papers. The lists are calculations that tell labs where to look, and testing them in twisted devices comes next.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives35
Confidence60
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River erosion lifted the Basque-Cantabrian Range's Atlantic slope 88 metres more than its Mediterranean side

A team at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca measured how much rock 35 river basins have carried off the Basque-Cantabrian Range, then converted that lost weight into metres of rebound.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence62
scienceOne report1 publisher

Superconductivity returns above 0.9 tesla in a two-dimensional oxide interface

A RIKEN-led team was mapping critical fields in a LaTiO3/KTaO3 heterostructure when a resistive peak split the superconducting state in two. The accident shows how thinly the phase competition in 2D has been mapped.

Publishers:physicsworld.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives38
Confidence52