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1,013 claims from 634 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 974 have no check with a result yet.

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133 claims from 77 papers, showing 1–20 of 77

1. Physics and Astronomy › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

   Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   Perdew, Burke and Ernzerhof · Physical Review Letters · 1996

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   1. Unchecked“Improvements over PW91 include an accurate description of the linear response of the uniform electron gas, correct behavior under uniform scaling, and a smoother potential.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

   Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction

   Fitzpatrick · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“These curves represent the true monochromatic wavelength dependence of extinction and, as such, are suitable for dereddening IR–UV spectrophotometric data of any resolution and can be used to derive extinction relations for any photometry system.”

3. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1001.4538

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   1. Unchecked“The power-law index of the primordial power spectrum is n_s=0.968+-0.012, a measurement that excludes the scale-invariant spectrum by 99.5%CL.”
   2. Unchecked“We detect, and show on the map for the first time, the tangential and radial polarization patterns around hot and cold spots of temperature fluctuations, an important test of physical processes at z=1090 and the dominance of adiabatic scalar fluctuations.”
   3. Unchecked“However, it is a factor of 0.5 to 0.7 times the predictions from "universal profile" of Arnaud et al., analytical models, and hydrodynamical simulations.”

4. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1807.06205

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   1. Unchecked“With 18 peaks in the temperature and polarization angular power spectra constrained well, Planck measures five of the six parameters to better than 1% (simultaneously), with the best-determined parameter (theta_*) now known to 0.03%.”
   2. Unchecked“The 6-parameter LCDM model continues to provide an excellent fit to the cosmic microwave background data at high and low redshift, describing the cosmological information in over a billion map pixels with just six parameters.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

   The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

   Tremonti, Heckman, Kauffmann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“We find a tight (±0.1 dex) correlation between stellar mass and metallicity spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in stellar mass and a factor of 10 in metallicity.”
   2. Unchecked“The relation is relatively steep from 10 8.5 to 10 10.5 M ☉ h , in good accord with known trends between luminosity and metallicity, but flattens above 10 10.5 M ☉ .”
   3. Unchecked“We show that metal loss is strongly anticorrelated with baryonic mass, with low-mass dwarf galaxies being 5 times more metal depleted than L * galaxies at z ~ 0.1.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant

   Riess, Macri, Hoffmann et al. · OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Our best estimate of 73.24+/-1.74 km/sec/Mpc combines the anchors NGC4258, MW, and LMC, and includes systematic errors for a final uncertainty of 2.4%.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release

   Scolnic, Brout, Carr et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The total number of light curves, which are compiled across 18 different surveys, is a significant increase from the first Pantheon analysis (1048 SNe), particularly at low redshift ( z ).”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, unlike in the Pantheon analysis, we include light curves for SNe with z < 0.01 such that SN systematic covariance can be included in a joint measurement of the Hubble constant ( H 0 ) and the dark energy equation-of-state parameter ( w ).”

8. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1105.3470

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   1. Unchecked“Adding these supernovae improves the best combined constraint on the dark energy density ρ_{DE}(z) at redshifts 1.0 < z < 1.6 by 18% (including systematic errors).”
   2. Unchecked“For a flat wCDM model, we measure a constant dark energy equation-of-state parameter w = -0.985 +0.071/-0.077 (68% CL).”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

   Kozai · The Astronomical Journal · 1962

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   1. Unchecked“After short-periodic terms in the Hamiltonian are eliminated, the degree of freedom for the canonical equations of motion can be reduced to 1.”
   2. Unchecked“When the z component of the angular momentum (that is, Delaunay's H) of the asteroid is smaller than a certain limiting value, there are both a stationary solution and solutions corresponding to libration cases.”
   3. Unchecked“The limiting value of H increases as the ratio of the semimajor axes increases, i.e., the corresponding limiting inclination drops from 39.2° to 1.8° as the ratio of the axes increases from 0.0 to 0.95.”

10. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2503.14738

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    1. Unchecked“When also including SNe, the preference for a dynamical dark energy model over $Λ$CDM ranges from $2.8-4.2σ$ depending on which SNe sample is used.”
    2. Unchecked“This solution is preferred over $Λ$CDM at $3.1σ$ for the combination of DESI BAO and CMB data.”
    3. Unchecked“From the combination of DESI and CMB we derive 95% upper limits on the sum of neutrino masses, finding $\sum m_ν<0.064$ eV assuming $Λ$CDM and $\sum m_ν<0.16$ eV in the $w_0w_a$ model.”

11. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 0811.2606

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    1. Unchecked“Multi-epoch data show counter-clockwise orbital motion for all three imaged planets.”
    2. Unchecked“The low luminosity of the companions and the estimated age of the system imply planetary masses between 5 and 13 times that of Jupiter.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System

    Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli and Levison · Nature · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“We show that this resonance crossing could have occurred as the giant planets migrated owing to their interaction with a disk of planetesimals.”
    2. Unchecked“Our model reproduces all the important characteristics of the giant planets' orbits, namely their final semimajor axes, eccentricities and mutual inclinations.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

    Brout, Scolnic, Popovic et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“For a flat ΛCDM model, we find Ω M = 0.334 ± 0.018 from SNe Ia alone.”
    2. Unchecked“For a flat w 0 CDM model, we measure w 0 = −0.90 ± 0.14 from SNe Ia alone, H 0 = 73.5 ± 1.1 km s −1 Mpc −1 when including the Cepheid host distances and covariance (SH0ES), and w 0 = − 0.978 − 0.031 + 0.024 when combining the SN likelihood with Planck constr…
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we find that systematic uncertainties in the use of SNe Ia along the distance ladder comprise less than one-third of the total uncertainty in the measurement of H 0 and cannot explain the present “Hubble tension” between local measurements and early…

14. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

    Autocatalytic sets of proteins

    Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1986

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    1. Supported · 71%“Because, as M increases, the ratio of reactions among the possible polypeptides to polypeptides rises rapidly, the existence of such autocatalytic subsets is assured for any fixed probability of catalysis.”

15. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1601.00329

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    1. Unchecked“Highlights from DES early data include the discovery of 34 Trans Neptunian Objects, 17 dwarf satellites of the Milky Way, one published z > 6 quasar (and more confirmed) and two published superluminous supernovae (and more confirmed).”

16. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2311.07222

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    1. Unchecked“For both weather and climate, our approach offers orders of magnitude computational savings over conventional GCMs.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Network Analysis Techniques

    The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

    Bollobás, Janson and Riordan · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“We also consider other properties of the model, showing, for example, that when there is a giant component, it is `stable': for a typical random graph, no matter how we add or delete o(n) edges, the size of the giant component does not change by more than o(…

18. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2102.03029

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    1. Unchecked“The C2DB is a highly curated open database organizing a wealth of computed properties for more than 4000 atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials.”

19. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv astro-ph/0404456

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    1. Unchecked“Pre-discovery images from 2001, 2002, and 2003 have allowed us to refine the orbit sufficiently to conclude that 2003 VB12 is on a highly eccentric orbit which permanently resides well beyond the Kuiper belt with a semimajor axis of 480$\pm$40 AU and a perih…

20. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 0712.0553

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    1. Unchecked“Assuming that the last encounter with Uranus delivered Neptune onto a low-inclination orbit with a semi-major axis of ~27 AU and an eccentricity of ~0.3, and that subsequently Neptune's eccentricity damped in ~1 My, our simulations reproduce the main observe…