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Uppsala University

Uppsala University is a leading Swedish research university founded in 1477, known for work spanning archaeology, art analysis, medicine, and the sciences.

Known aliases

  • Uppsala universitet

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scienceConfirmed2 publishers

Sturgeon backbone tests show early tetrapod necks were stiff

Dana Korneisel's Nature study applied sturgeon backbone stiffness to fossil tetrapods and found their necks allowed little movement. Surrounding tissue would cut that further, so the neck-mobility explanation for the body-plan change loses ground.

Publishers:nature.com phys.org

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
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Hype gap+12
Incentives
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Confidence74
scienceOne report1 publisher

Emulated trial in 64,000 Swedish adults credits strict Nordic eating with 4% lower 24-year mortality

Danish researchers modelled 64,000-plus Swedish adults and estimate a strict healthy Nordic diet lowers 24-year mortality 4% versus official Nordic advice. That figure assumes people stay strictly on the diet for decades, so real eaters would likely see less.

Publishers:sciencealert.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives
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Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

Explaining the older-sister effect on male sexual orientation would need 37 to 58% of eggs miscarried

Michel Raymond's team modelled whether unrecorded losses of male embryos could produce the pattern seen in eight populations, and the share of fertilised eggs the model demands sits well above the rate clinics record.

Publishers:newscientist.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives58
Confidence48
scienceOne report1 publisher

Two posthole rows at Old Uppsala anchor one researcher's eight-year sacrifice calendar

Goran Henriksson says the Great Midwinter Sacrifice began on the full moon falling between Jan. 28 and Feb. 26. The evidence is two excavated rows of posts and a shoreline 19.5 meters higher than today, set out in a paper he presented at a 2014 conference.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives55
Confidence58
scienceOne report1 publisher

Motion capture pins the Visby square skull holes on a spiked club, and on teamwork

A conference paper argues medieval combat at Visby was coordinated group work. The more useful result is the rig: cow bone, ballistic gelatine and a reenactor in a 4D motion-capture suit.

Publishers:livescience.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives60
Confidence62
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Domino's turns dinner-table disagreement into a product spec

Over a quarter of Americans eat most of their meals alone, and 52% now say they would rather order their own dish. That shift is why the personalization Domino's, Wonder and DoorDash are building reprices portioning and the cost to serve a party.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption45
Hype gap+30
Incentives45
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

A dropped 'null' turned an NHS test result into the opposite diagnosis

Healthwatch England says the 27 AI scribes now writing notes across the NHS in England are muddling drug names and diagnoses, and with no device classification from the MHRA, the last check is the patient.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption62
Hype gap+12
Incentives72
Confidence54
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Healthwatch finds patients catching the AI scribe errors their clinicians missed

The scribe errors Healthwatch documented reached patients' records before anyone queried them. In two of the cases, it was the patient who did the querying. England has 27 products in use and no device classification.

Publishers:theguardian.com

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption66
Hype gap+24
Incentives66
Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

Webb splits Hephaistos's two newest Dyson sphere candidates into M dwarfs and background galaxies

The Uppsala-led search picked its two strongest leads out of a million stars, then spent Webb time showing the infrared excess belonged to galaxies sitting behind them. Self-inflicted nulls are what a working method produces.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption22
Hype gap−12
Incentives45
Confidence66