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997 claims from 626 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 958 have no check with a result yet.

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38 claims from 38 papers, showing 1–20 of 38

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Rapamycin fed late in life extends lifespan in genetically heterogeneous mice

   Harrison, Strong, Sharp et al. · Nature · 2009

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   1. Supported · 71%“On the basis of age at 90% mortality, rapamycin led to an increase of 14% for females and 9% for males.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

   DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types

   Horvath · Genome biology · 2013

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   1. Supported · 71%“I developed a multi-tissue predictor of age that allows one to estimate the DNA methylation age of most tissues and cell types.”

3. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   Dynamics of Sparsely Connected Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Spiking Neurons

   Brunel · Journal of Computational Neuroscience · 2000

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   1. Supported · 71%“The analysis reveals a rich repertoire of states, including synchronous states in which neurons fire regularly; asynchronous states with stationary global activity and very irregular individual cell activity; and states in which the global activity oscillate…

4. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

   Pennycook, Epstein, Mosleh, Arechar, Eckles and Rand · Nature · 2021

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   1. Supported · 67%“To shed light on this apparent contradiction, we carried out four survey experiments and a field experiment on Twitter; the results show that subtly shifting attention to accuracy increases the quality of news that people subsequently share.”

5. Mathematics › Advanced Mathematical Identities

   On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants

   Bailey, Borwein and Plouffe · Mathematics of Computation · 1997

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   1. Supported · 71%“These algorithms can be easily implemented (multiple precision arithmetic is not needed), require virtually no memory, and feature run times that scale nearly linearly with the order of the digit desired.”

6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Acarbose, 17‐α‐estradiol, and nordihydroguaiaretic acid extend mouse lifespan preferentially in males

   Harrison, Strong, Allison et al. · Aging Cell · 2013

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   1. Supported · 71%“Acarbose increased male median lifespan by 22% (P < 0.0001), but increased female median lifespan by only 5% (P = 0.01).”

7. 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.”

8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Rapamycin‐mediated lifespan increase in mice is dose and sex dependent and metabolically distinct from dietary restriction

   Miller, Harrison, Astle et al. · Aging Cell · 2013

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   1. Supported · 71%“Rapamycin increased lifespan more in females than in males at each dose evaluated, perhaps reflecting sexual dimorphism in blood levels of this drug.”

9. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning

   Fawzi, Balog, Huang et al. · Nature · 2022

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   1. Supported · 71%“Particularly relevant is the case of 4 × 4 matrices in a finite field, where AlphaTensor’s algorithm improves on Strassen’s two-level algorithm for the first time, to our knowledge, since its discovery 50 years ago.”

10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Longer lifespan in male mice treated with a weakly estrogenic agonist, an antioxidant, an α‐glucosidase inhibitor or a Nrf2‐inducer

    Strong, Miller, Antebi et al. · Aging Cell 15(5) · 2016 · PubMed 27312235

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    1. Supported · 71%“17-α-estradiol at a threefold higher dose robustly extended both median and maximal lifespan, but still only in males.”

11. Computer Science

    The Heidelberg Spiking Data Sets for the Systematic Evaluation of Spiking Neural Networks

    Cramer, Stradmann, Schemmel and Zenke · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 33(7) · 2022 · arXiv 1910.07407

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    1. Supported · 71%“By training a range of conventional and spiking classifiers, we show that leveraging spike timing information within these datasets is essential for good classification accuracy.”

12. Computer Science

    Solving and Verifying the boolean Pythagorean Triples problem via Cube-and-Conquer

    Heule, Kullmann and Marek · SAT 2016, LNCS 9710 · 2016 · arXiv 1605.00723

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    1. Supported · 71%“Due to the general interest in this mathematical problem, our result requires a formal proof. Exploiting recent progress in unsatisfiability proofs of SAT solvers, we produced and verified a proof in the DRAT format, which is almost 200 terabytes in size.”

13. Engineering

    The Remarkable Robustness of Surrogate Gradient Learning for Instilling Complex Function in Spiking Neural Networks

    Zenke and Vogels · Neural Computation · 2021 · DOI 10.1162/neco_a_01367

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    1. Supported · 71%“We show that surrogate gradient learning is robust to different shapes of underlying surrogate derivatives, but the choice of the derivative's scale can substantially affect learning performance.”

14. Mathematics

    Computer solution to the 17-point Erdős-Szekeres problem

    Szekeres and Peters · The ANZIAM Journal 48(2) · 2006 · DOI 10.1017/s144618110000300x

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    1. Supported · 71%“We describe a computer proof of the 17-point version of a conjecture originally made by Klein-Szekeres in 1932 (now commonly known as the “Happy End Problem”) that a planar configuration of 17 points, no 3 points collinear, always contains a convex 6-subset.”

15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Acarbose improves health and lifespan in aging HET3 mice

    Harrison, Strong, Alavez et al. · Aging Cell 18(2) · 2019 · DOI 10.1111/acel.12898

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    1. Supported · 71%“The two higher doses produced 16% or 17% increases in median longevity of males, but only 4% or 5% increases in females. Age at the 90th percentile was increased significantly (8%–11%) in males at each dose, but was significantly increased (3%) in females on…

16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice

    Miller, Harrison, Allison et al. · JCI Insight 5(21) · 2020 · DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.140019

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    1. Supported · 71%“Cana extended median survival of male mice by 14%. Cana also increased by 9% the age for 90th percentile survival, with parallel effects seen at each of 3 test sites.”

17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    17‐a‐estradiol late in life extends lifespan in aging UM‐HET3 male mice; nicotinamide riboside and three other drugs do not affect lifespan in either sex

    Harrison, Strong, Reifsnyder et al. · Aging Cell 20(5) · 2021 · DOI 10.1111/acel.13328

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    1. Supported · 71%“In genetically heterogeneous mice produced by the CByB6F1 x C3D2F1 cross, the “non‐feminizing” estrogen, 17‐α‐estradiol (17aE2), extended median male lifespan by 19% (p < 0.0001, log‐rank test) and 11% (p = 0.007) when fed at 14.4 ppm starting at 16 and 20 m…

18. Computer Science

    Lenia - Biology of Artificial Life

    Chan · Complex Systems 28(3) · 2019 · arXiv 1812.05433

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    1. Supported · 71%“More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation.”

19. Mathematics

    Random Generators and Normal Numbers

    Bailey and Crandall · Experimental Mathematics 11(4) · 2002 · DOI 10.1080/10586458.2002.10504704

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    1. Supported · 71%“For example, we find that the googol-th (i.e., 10100 -th) binary bit of α2,3 is 0.”

20. Mathematics

    A SAT Attack on the Erdos Discrepancy Conjecture

    Konev and Lisitsa · SAT 2014, LNCS 8561 · 2014 · arXiv 1402.2184

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    1. Supported · 71%“We show that by encoding the problem into Boolean satisfiability and applying the state of the art SAT solvers, one can obtain a sequence of length 1160 with discrepancy 2 and a proof of the Erdos discrepancy conjecture for C=2, claiming that no sequence of…