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University of Delaware

Public research university in Newark, Delaware, with programs spanning engineering, chemistry, oceanography, and physics.

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A methanol step lets University of Delaware researchers digest proteins inside intact plant cells

University of Delaware researchers report in Plant Physiology a validated way to digest proteins inside intact plant cells. In tobacco leaves, the data showed distinct protein differences between disease-causing and harmless fungi.

Publishers:phys.org

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Evidence40
Adoption25
Hype gap+30
Incentives45
Confidence50
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Researchers cite ten-company drug-discovery model to argue biomanufacturers should pool data

Roger Hart and Kelvin Lee cite a model ten drug makers trained on 2.6 billion pooled data points as the case for sharing data across biomanufacturing. Its gains were measured on drug-discovery assays, so the payoff on plant data is untested.

Publishers:genengnews.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption20
Hype gap+35
Incentives50
Confidence40
scienceConfirmed3 publishers

Nylon shades that block 60% of light eased bleaching in Florida Keys brain corals

Nova Southeastern researchers who cut light by 60% over Florida Keys brain corals in 2024 saw them bleach less than 20 unshaded controls. The summer killed no coral in either group, so the result supports shading as short-term protection for a few chosen colonies.

Publishers:eos.org gizmodo.com phys.org

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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption10
Hype gap+25
Incentives
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Confidence60
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Sky Xu's 30% stake prices Shein at $26.7bn for its Hong Kong debut

Fortune puts Sky Xu's holding at about $8bn at the listing price, which divided by his 30% stake backs into a company worth roughly $26.7bn, some $73bn under the mark private investors accepted in 2022. Whether that gap is flows or freight decides who should buy it.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption64
Hype gap+14
Incentives62
Confidence54
scienceOne report1 publisher

A 24% dementia gap, and 1.7% uptake: the shingles number nursing homes will be asked about

A Brown-led study of half a million nursing home admissions puts the shingles vaccine's dementia signal at 24%. It also shows that almost nobody in that population got the shot.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption16
Hype gap+28
Incentives66
Confidence52
scienceOne report1 publisher

A centuries-old Coulomb's law test could out-search accelerators for millicharged particles

Physicists at Fermilab, Stanford and Delaware project that a Faraday cage shielding measurement would be three times more sensitive to millicharged particles than accelerator searches.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption12
Hype gap+22
Incentives58
Confidence45