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Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by WalterBright on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:34PM (#36959395)
Several scientists and labs have raised doubts about Ranga Dias’s room-temperature superconductor
Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by berbec on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:06PM (#36959914)
Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by hcrisp on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:09PM (#36959947)
They buried the lede in the bottom third of the story via this tangential comment:

> Last week, a different group of scientists at institutes in South Korea and at William & Mary in Virginia claimed they saw superconductivity without extreme conditions in a lead compound in the presence of copper, but scientists have said they are skeptical about the findings, posted ahead of peer review to arXiv.

Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by sergiomattei on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:34PM (#36960351)
For reference, this is not about the recent superconductor discoveries.

Rather, this article is about Ranga Dias, the disgraced physicist who made prior claims.

Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by g42gregory on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:40PM (#36960443)
What is there to question exactly? This is not a philosophical discussion, but hard science. Can this experiment be replicated or not?
Re:Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicis... by ochn on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:17PM (#36961095)
The measurements were reproduced by a different team on samples provided by Dias: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06301