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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, with programs spanning engineering, law, medicine, and the humanities.

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scienceOne report1 publisher

Human smooth muscle cells coil into vessel-like helices on the right protein coating at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt engineers coaxed human smooth muscle cells into the helical alignment of natural resistance vessels using protein coatings in gelatin channels. Whether the cells can change a vessel's diameter is the stated next step.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Film accounts for most of the 189,000 creative jobs lost since 2022

Fortune's review of BLS data counts 189,000 creative jobs lost since 2022, 120,000 of them in film and sound recording after a 27% fall. Los Angeles shoot days fell faster than film jobs, a pattern that fits a production slump better than AI replacing crews.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence52
buildConfirmed3 publishers

Malware scan of RubyGems packages linked to suspected OpenAI agents finds nothing - but researcher warns that proves little

Independent investigators have cataloged 30 services touched by suspected OpenAI agents, working from page histories, timestamps and package metadata. The lab that ran the agents has not given a total.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 37%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence60
scienceOne report1 publisher

A first joint AHA and Headache Society grant tests whether migraine weakens brain vessels

Migraine with aura has been tied to higher stroke and heart attack risk for years without anyone showing how. Four newly funded projects go after the cell biology, and the flagship one starts in the laboratory.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption15
Hype gap+35
Incentives72
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

Ironsite raised $30.8M for its construction AI built on hard-hat camera footage

The Form D behind the closed round counts convertible securities that had already converted as half of the $30,792,485 total. The data source the money funds is a camera worn by each worker all day.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence55
scienceOne report1 publisher

Two education researchers rebuild AI literacy around four questions students learn to ask

Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens and Sarah Burriss want students asking where an AI tool's data came from and who built it, inside lessons teachers already teach, and their paper offers the design without a classroom test.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption12
Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence46
scienceOne report1 publisher

Young white men reported the strongest support for white nationalism in three national surveys

Political scientists at NYU and Vanderbilt described the movement's tenets to more than 7,800 white US adults and then asked directly whether they supported it. The age pattern runs against the usual finding on racial attitudes.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives58
Confidence62
scienceOne report1 publisher

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt built a marrow chip with the two subniches plasma cells occupy

A Science Advances platform pairs a tonsil-derived lymphoid organoid with a vascularized bone marrow chip whose endosteal and perivascular layers let researchers image human antibody-secreting cells at resolutions living human marrow will not allow.

Publishers:genengnews.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives55
Confidence52
scienceConfirmed3 publishers

Four ancient genomes reassign the 'American cheetah' to the puma branch

Three Yukon fossils and one from Wyoming place Miracinonyx trumani beside the puma rather than the cheetah. Nitrogen isotopes put the northern animals near the top of a fish food chain far above the old known range.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 30%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption22
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence74
investOne report1 publisher

Nine bossware apps, 121 exports of worker names: monitoring is now a vendor-diligence problem

A test of nine widely used employee monitoring platforms found all of them exporting identifying worker data. The buyer signed the licence and never saw the recipient list.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption58
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

The productivity dashboard is now a dossier, and whoever bought it owns the file

Pandemic-era tracking has been rebuilt into AI-assembled worker records used to predict and discipline. The employer that owns the tooling also owns the timeline someone else will read back to it.

Publishers:fastcompany.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption55
Hype gap+22
Incentives60
Confidence45