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1,212 claims from 763 papers are on the record. 44 have been checked so far; the other 1,168 have no check with a result yet.

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208 claims from 118 papers, showing 101–118 of 118

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Evidence for Very Early Migration of the Solar System Planets from the Patroclus-Menoetius binary Jupiter Trojan

   Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický, Bottke and Levison · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“This constraint implies that the planetary migration is unrelated to the formation of the youngest lunar basins.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM's FIFTH GIANT PLANET?

   Nesvorný · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical simulations starting with a resonant system of four giant planets have a low success rate in matching the present orbits of giant planets, and various other constraints (e.g., survival of the terrestrial planets).”
   2. Unchecked“The dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, and leads to final systems with fewer than four planets.”
   3. Unchecked“Some of the statistically best results were obtained when assuming that the solar system initially had five giant planets and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected to interstellar space by Jupiter.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“We find that Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune evolve radially outwards as they scatter the planetesimals, while Jupiter's orbit shrinks as it ejects mass.”
   2. Unchecked“Higher-mass disks result in more rapid and extensive planet migration.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The formation of Uranus and Neptune in the Jupiter–Saturn region of the Solar System

   Thommes, Duncan and Levison · Nature · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“Here we report the results of model calculations that demonstrate that such cores will have been gravitationally scattered outwards as Jupiter, and perhaps Saturn, accreted nebular gas.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Multifield dark energy: Interplay between curved field space and curved spacetime

   Gallego and Orjuela-Quintana · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“However, we show that these mechanisms arise in distinct invariant manifolds and cannot be simultaneously realized in the presence of a background fluid: no non-geodesic scaling fixed point exists within an open region of parameter space.”
   2. Unchecked“As a consequence, in the observationally viable thawing regime the axion does not track the background fluid and spatial curvature becomes dynamically subdominant, leading to an effectively single-field evolution.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Asteroids Fail to Retain Cometary Impact Signatures

   Joiret, Avice, Ferrière et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“This apparent contradiction arises due to the fact that cometary impacts were at high speeds and Vesta's weak gravitational attraction made it incapable of retaining cometary material.”
   2. Unchecked“Therefore, if a cometary xenon signature is ever detected in an asteroid belt object, it must have been acquired during formation, within the same source region as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and have been implanted later into the asteroid belt.”
   3. Unchecked“While our dynamical simulations indicate that Vesta likely underwent a significant number of collisions with large comets, we find no xenon cometary signature in HED meteorites.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Planetary Science and Exploration

   A massive primordial atmosphere on early Mars

   Joiret, Morbidelli, de Sousa, Avice and Sossi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Our calculations show that, even under the most conservative scenario, the minimal mass of the primordial martian atmospheres would yield a surface pressure of no less than 2.9 bar.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability

   Woo, Nesvorný, Scora and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“About half of the simulations form a pair of Venus and Earth analogues and, independently, about 10% form a Mars analogue.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Updated Constraints on Omnipotent Dark Energy: A Comprehensive Analysis with CMB and BAO Data

    Specogna, Adil, Özülker et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“However, the inclusion of PP data restores the tension in $H_0$.”
    2. Unchecked“Our results generically exhibit multiple phantom divide line crossings in a single expansion history; if confirmed, this points beyond the simplest minimally coupled canonical single-field quintessence/phantom descriptions and motivates more general dark-sec…
    3. Unchecked“We find that certain data combinations, such as SPT+WMAP+BAO and PL18+BAO, can reduce the significance of the $H_0$ tension below $1σ$, but with considerably large uncertainties.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

    Progress of the TianQin project

    Jun, Shaojun, Bai et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In step ``0", the TianQin laser ranging station has been constructed and it has successfully ranged to all the five retro-reflectors on the Moon.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Radial Distribution of Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Points to Sun's Formation in a Stellar Cluster

    Nesvorný, Bernardinelli, Vokrouhlický and Batygin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“For such an encounter to happen with a reasonably high probability the Sun must have formed in a stellar cluster with $ηT \gtrsim 10^4$ Myr pc$^{-3}$, where $η$ is the stellar number density and $T$ is the Sun's residence time in the cluster.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Mars' Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability

    Clement, Kaib, Raymond and Walsh · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Here we use 800 dynamical simulations to show that an early instability in the outer solar system strongly influences terrestrial planet formation and regularly yields properly sized Mars analogs.”
    2. Unchecked“In these simulations, accretion has begun in the Mars region before the instability, but the dynamical perturbation induced by the giant planets' scattering removes large embryos from Mars' vicinity.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Capture of Trojans by Jumping Jupiter

    Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We find that the capture probability is (6-8)x10^-7 for each particle in the original transplanetary disk, implying that the disk contained (3-4)x10^7 planetesimals with absolute magnitude H<9 (corresponding to diameter D=80 km for a 7% albedo).”
    2. Unchecked“The jump capture is potentially capable of explaining the observed asymmetry in the number of leading and trailing Trojans.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Dynamics of the giant planets of the solar system in the gaseous proto-planetary disk and relationship to the current orbital architecture

    Morbidelli, Tsiganis, Crida, Levison and Gomes · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“The only systems that we found to reach a steady state are those in which the planets are locked in a quadruple mean motion resonance (i.e. each planet is in resonance with its neighbor).”
    2. Unchecked“After the disappearance of the gas, and in absence of planetesimals, only two of these six configurations (the least compact ones) are stable for a time of hundreds of millions of years or more.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Volatile Carbon to Oxygen Ratio as a Tracer for the Formation Locations of Interstellar Comets

    Seligman, Rogers, Cabot et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Preferential desorption of CO and CO$_2$ relative to H$_2$O in the interstellar medium implies that measured C/O ratios represent lower limits on the primordial ratios.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Joint Constraints on Neutrinos and Dynamical Dark Energy in Minimally Modified Gravity

    Ladeira, Nunes, Pan and Yang · Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research) · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“Crucially, the data exhibit a statistically significant preference for a late-time dark-energy transition, characterized by a robust quintessence--phantom crossing that remains stable across all dataset combinations and neutrino-sector extensions, including…
    2. Unchecked“The combined effects of modified late-time expansion and additional relativistic degrees of freedom systematically raise the inferred Hubble constant, substantially alleviating the \(H_0\) tension without invoking early dark energy or introducing theoretical…

18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 2000 CR105 and 2003 VB12

    Morbidelli and H. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“Of all these mechanisms, the only one giving satisfactory results is the passage of a star.”
    2. Unchecked“Indeed, our simulations show that the passage of a solar mass star at about 800 AU only perturbs objects with semi-major axes larger than roughly 200 AU to large perihelion distances.”