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A researcher who claimed a breakthrough in superconductivity had two papers retracted earlier. Why was this one accepted as solid?
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A researcher who claimed a breakthrough in superconductivity had two papers retracted earlier. Why was this one accepted as solid?
It was the second paper led by Ranga P. Dias, a researcher at the University of Rochester, that the journal Nature has retracted.
Eight of the 11 authors are asking to retract a paper on a room-temperature superconductor, but Ranga Dias, the physicist who led the research, continued to defend the findings.
The University of Rochester will examine the work of Ranga Dias, who was an author of a materials science paper unrelated to his superconductor research that was retracted on Tuesday.
Korean researchers claim to have developed a superconductor that can operate at room temperature and ambient pressure