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Facing a mutiny by his co-authors, Ranga Dias, the University of Rochester (U of R) physicist embroiled in controversy over his superconductivity research and allegations of scientific misconduct, is set to have a third paper retracted.
The
paper
, published on 8 March in
Nature
, made the stunning claim that Dias and his colleagues had discovered the first material that could conduct electricity without resistance at room temperatures and moderate pressures. Room-temperature superconductor claims
stir excitement
because of the potential applications, such as lossless electrical grids and powerful magnets for trains and medical imaging. If the paper is retracted, it will follow retractions of two other superconducting claims from Dias’s teams:
one last month
from
Physical Review Letters
(
PRL
), and one in
September 2022
of a different
Nature
paper.
On 1 September,
Nature
attached an editor’s note to the March paper, warning readers that “the reliability of data presented in thi...
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