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Rescuing superconductivity

Dec 21, 2024 4 min read

From a paper in Nature Reviews Physics, December 19, 2024: One of the forefront fields of modern superconductivity research is that on hydrides at high pressures. Over the past few years, this resear…

The journal's part in a retraction

Sep 29, 2023 3 min read

Science Ashkan Salamat Brad Ramshaw James Hamlin lutetium hydride Nature journal peer review Physical Review Letters Ranga Dias retraction room-temperature superconductivity

What explains a journal's peer-review producing two different results on two separate occasions?…

Scientists' conduct affects science

Sep 7, 2023 4 min read

Analysis Science Douglas Natelson Majorana zero modes Microsoft Research Mikhail Eremets Nature journal objectivity Paul Feyerabend Ranga Dias rationalism Russell Hemley self-correcting

Nature News has published an excellent feature by Edwin Cartlidge on the "wall of scepticism" that arose in response to the latest superconductivity claim from Ranga Dias et al., purportedly…