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1,321 claims from 825 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,275 have no check with a result yet.

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1,275 claims from 782 papers, showing 521–540 of 782

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

   Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
   2. Unchecked“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics

   Song, Shim and Rosenberg · eLife · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Whole-brain dynamics traversed a common set of latent states that spanned canonical gradients of functional brain organization, with global desynchronization among functional networks modulating state transitions.”
   2. Unchecked“Neural state dynamics reflected attention fluctuations such that different states indicated engaged attention in task and naturalistic contexts, whereas a common state indicated attention lapses in both contexts.”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Catching the k-NAESAT threshold

   Coja-Oglan and Παναγιώτου · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“We prove that the threshold for the existence of solutions in random $k$-NAESAT is $2^{k-1}\ln2-(\frac{\ln2}2+\frac14)+\eps_k$, where $|\eps_k| \le 2^{-(1-o_k(1))k}$, thereby verifying the statistical mechanics conjecture for this problem.”

4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   This Time They Are Different

   Eberhardt and Presbitero · IMF Working Paper · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We find some support for a nonlinear relationship between debt and long-run growth across countries, but no evidence for common debt thresholds within countries over time.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

   Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
   2. Unchecked“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
   3. Unchecked“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

   Schwamb, Fraser, Bannister et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Including in our analysis constraints from the cold classical objects, which are known to exhibit unique albedos and $r-z$ colors, we find that within our measurement uncertainty, our observations are consistent with the primordial Solar System protoplanetes…
   2. Unchecked“Based on simple albedo and orbital distribution assumptions, we find that the neutral class outnumbers the red class, with a ratio of 4:1 and potentially as high as 11:1.”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   The freezing threshold for k-colourings of a random graph

   Molloy · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above rkf, almost every colouring is such that a linear number of variables are frozen, meaning that their colours cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o(n) vertices at a…
   2. Unchecked“When the density is below rkf, then almost every colouring has at most o(n) frozen variables.”

8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Public Debt, Economic Growth and Non-Linear Effects: Myth or Reality?

   Égert · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We also show that when non-linearity is detected, the negative non-linear effect kicks in at much lower levels of public debt (between 20% and 60% of GDP).”
   2. Unchecked“Using non-linear threshold models, we show that the negative non-linear relationship between debt and growth is very sensitive to modelling choices.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Toward Leveraging Human Connectomic Data in Large Consortia: Generalizability of fMRI-Based Brain Graphs Across Sites, Sessions, and Paradigms

   Cao, McEwen, Forsyth et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Our results revealed overall fair to excellent reliability for a majority of measures during both rest and tasks, in particular for those quantifying connectivity strength, network segregation and network integration.”

10. Computer Science › Formal Methods in Verification

    Formal Verification of the Empty Hexagon Number

    Bernardo, Wojciech, James, Cayden, Mario and Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“This result implies that every unit cube tiling of $\mathbb{R}^7$ contains a facesharing pair of cubes.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

    Protoplanetary disk formation from the collapse of a prestellar core

    Lee, Charnoz and Hennebelle · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The surface mass flux is very centrally peaked, implying that most of the mass falling onto the star does not transit through the mid-plane of the disk.”
    2. Unchecked“The disk mid-plane is almost dead to turbulence, whereas upper layers and the disk outer edge are very turbulent.”
    3. Unchecked“Accretion onto the star is found to mostly depend on dynamics of the collapsing envelope, rather than the detailed disk structure.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Re-assessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster – II. Probing the inner edge

    Brasser and Schwamb · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“We report that the detached objects 2004 VN112 and 2010 GB174 are likely members of the IOC that were placed there while the Sun was in its birth cluster or during an episode of Solar migration in the Galaxy.”
    2. Unchecked“Based on our simulations we find that the maximum perihelion distance of SD objects is 41 AU when the semi-major axis is higher than 250 AU.”

13. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    On the Power and Limitations of Random Features for Understanding Neural Networks

    Yehudai and Shamir · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In particular, we rigorously show that random features cannot be used to learn even a single ReLU neuron with standard Gaussian inputs, unless the network size (or magnitude of the weights) is exponentially large.”

14. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    The operational medium-range deterministic weather forecasting can be extended beyond a 10-day lead time

    Chen, Han, Ling et al. · Communications Earth & Environment · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Comparative evaluations against the Integrated Forecasting System Ensemble show that FengWu-Ensemble achieves superior performance across multiple meteorological variables and evaluation metrics.”
    2. Unchecked“These enhancements allow FengWu to outperform deterministic forecasts produced by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts High-Resolution Model, Pangu-Weather, and GraphCast.”
    3. Unchecked“A new deep learning-based global medium-range weather forecasting model outperforms existing machine learning models and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model, producing accurate global weather forecasts beyond ten days.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    How environment and self‐motion combine in neural representations of space

    Evans, Bičanski, Bush and Burgess · The Journal of Physiology · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“For head direction cells, direct projections from egocentric sensory representations of distal cues can help to correct cumulative errors.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the allocentric code of boundary vector cells and place cells requires consistent head‐direction information in order to translate the sensory signal of egocentric boundary distance into allocentric boundary vector cell firing, suggesting that the d…

16. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Governance Architecture for Neural Network Superposition: A Structural Solution to Hallucination via Routing and Interference Filtering

    Nelson, Hume, Olsson et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate the existence of a phase change, a surprising connection to the geometry of uniform polytopes, and evidence of a link to adversarial examples.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 Ice Fragment of an Exo‐Pluto Surface II: Generation of N2 Ice Fragments and the Origin of ‘Oumuamua

    Desch and Jackson · Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Here we demonstrate that impacts on the surfaces of Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) would have generated and ejected ~10^14 collisional fragments--roughly half of them H2O ice fragments and half of them N2 ice fragments--due to the dynamical instabilit…

18. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Birds of prey-based optimization (BPBO): a metaheuristic algorithm for optimization

    Ghasemi, Akbari, Zare et al. · Evolutionary Intelligence · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“By incorporating a dynamic relocation strategy to access more suitable prey, this method enhances population diversity and mitigates the risk of premature convergence.”
    2. Unchecked“This includes successful application to both small-scale problems with specific constraints and large-scale problems with dimensions extending up to 1000.”
    3. Unchecked“The comparison of the results across all cases utilizing robust algorithms substantiates the proposed algorithm’s effective performance in exploring the feasible space of the problem.”

19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    Feature Reuse and Scaling: Understanding Transfer Learning with Protein Language Models

    Li, Amini, Yue, Yang and Lu · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We observe that while almost all down-stream tasks do benefit from pretrained models compared to naive sequence representations, for the majority of tasks performance does not scale with pretraining, and instead relies on low-level features learned early in…

20. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Leveraging language representation for materials exploration and discovery

    Qu, Xie, Ciesielski, Porter, Toberer and Ertekin · npj Computational Materials · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The contextual knowledge encoded in these language representations conveys information about material properties and structures, enabling both similarity analysis to recall relevant candidates based on a query material and multi-task learning to share inform…