Tagged Galápagos yellow-morph green turtles stayed inside their marine reserve for up to 418 days
Nine yellow-morph green sea turtles tagged in the Galápagos in 2015 never left the marine reserve while their satellite tags transmitted, for up to 418 days. Only two were female, so the case for coastal protection is strong while breeding trips to distant beaches remain untested.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
Mapping 16 mummies, a dog and nine deposits in tomb TT 209 shows each new burial worked around the ones already there. The team says apparent disorder is partly a recording failure.
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- Builder 48%
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- Operator 44%
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- Investor 8%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives25
- Confidence55
Seventy-three burned grass layers at Cloggs Cave record 2,800 years of the same act
Nothing grows in the dark at Cloggs Cave, so the half-burnt silica plant microfossils in its ash layers came in with people. The dated layers show the same act being repeated for at least 2,800 years.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives55
- Confidence66
Funding losses pushed a 64-year marmot study onto OnlyFans
A Frontiers Q&A says funding losses have put Dan Blumstein's yellow-bellied marmot study at risk. A marked-animal record that lapses cannot be rebuilt later, and his OnlyFans account is the response.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
Sucralose and stevia reshaped mouse gut chemistry into generations that never drank them
A Universidad de Chile team gave 47 mice sweetened water at everyday doses and tracked two unexposed generations. Glucose handling shifted by sex and by line, and the metabolite drop is the part worth chasing.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives58
- Confidence34
Pollen in a Roman ship's tar turns hull sealant into a maintenance log
Researchers in France and Croatia analysed the coating on a 2,200-year-old Adriatic wreck and found pine tar, one beeswax patch, and pollen that points to where each coat was applied.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52