Struck along the normal direction, rolled AZ31 magnesium plates absorb up to 6.7% more ballistic energy
Pusan National University researchers found rolled AZ31 magnesium plates absorbed 6.5% to 6.7% more impact energy when struck along the normal direction. How the plates broke differed more than the energy did, in tests of one alloy at a single impact speed.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence40
Korea's 24-month refuelling pilot would add about 49 megawatts of steady reactor output
Korea aims to run two reactors on 24-month fuel cycles by 2030, a pilot worth about 427 GWh a year on a 2022 study's numbers. Averaged over the year that is roughly 49 megawatts, so the plan only matters for AI-era demand if longer cycles spread across the fleet.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Three climate models tie a slightly longer day to warming's rearranged winds
Susmit Satpathy's team finds that warming-driven winds lengthen Earth's day by about 10-18% of the long-term tidal-friction trend by 2100 in three climate models. The study gives a physical cause for the atmosphere's projected gain in angular momentum, which adds a small amount to the slowing that tides already cause.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence50
Three Korean national universities drew 10,414 more applications after each was promised 70 billion won
Jongno Academy counted 99,883 early applications at Pusan, Chonnam and Chungnam for 2027, up 11.6% in the first cycle after each was promised 70 billion won a year, with 63% of the gain at Pusan alone.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Showing environmental harm first heightened attention to the green solution that followed
Researchers at Pusan National University and Breda ran the same negative-to-positive message order through a 64-channel EEG session and a behavioural study. Arousal moved attention, valence moved intention.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives52
- Confidence50
An international team detected 1,399 small earthquakes in 17 years of continuous recordings from stations in China and South Korea, and the 955 they could locate trace two faults, one of which was never on a map.
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives33
- Confidence68
Five semiconductor programs took two-thirds of Korea's job-linked degree applications
Jongro Academy counted a record 8,994 early applications to 13 corporate contract programs for the 2027 year, up 18.2 percent. The 297-to-1 ratio being quoted is three seats at Sogang University. Battery, down 36.2 percent, is one department.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence62
Lead-free perovskite sensor reads ammonia at 1 ppm, and its makers say they now know why
A KIMS-led team reports an antimony perovskite that responds to ammonia in 13 seconds at 100 ppm, plus a mechanism that is intercalation rather than surface adsorption.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence40