“A phone exploded after it was left on charge overnight.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
Science and technology
332 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Anybody can buy any weapon, any time without much, if any, regulation. They buy it over the internet. They can buy machine guns.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Claim NASA has confirmed that marijuana contains alien DNA”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead.”
FactStream rated this: False
“Claim if you receive the call from 777888999 will your phone blast”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Claim: Seeman phone conversation”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: True
“Receiving a phone call from a number with '666' in it will kill you”
Africa Check rated this: Hoax
“Claim: ASAT is a satellite”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: False Headline
“A set of photos is going viral on social media with claims that Indira Gandhi’s family indulged in lavish lifestyle ignoring the need of resources for ISRO’s satellite launch. Both the pictures are correct but are being shared out of context.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“Claim Review: A set of photos is going viral on social media with claims that Indira Gandhi’s family indulged in lavish lifestyle ignoring the need of resources for ISRO’s satellite launch. Both the pictures are correct but are being shared out of context.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“Einstein said ‘fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction’ when ‘the world will have a generation of idiots’”
Africa Check rated this: False
“The science tells us that Tuvalu, which I often hear about, is actually growing not sinking,”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Checks out
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Kelly's claim checks out. In the four decades to 2014, Tuvalu's total land area grew by 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent. The expert behind this research told Fact Check the nation's islands were continually adjusting, a…