Tag Archives: Ranga Dias
Rescuing superconductivity
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 research has attracted considerable publicity, of which a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashkan Salamat, BCS theory, carbonaceous sulphur hydride, lutetium hydride, Nature journal, Nature Reviews Physics, peer review, Physical Review Letters, Ranga Dias, room-temperature superconductivity
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The journal’s part in a retraction
What explains a journal’s peer-review producing two different results on two separate occasions? Continue reading
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Tagged Ashkan Salamat, Brad Ramshaw, James Hamlin, lutetium hydride, Nature journal, peer review, Physical Review Letters, Ranga Dias, retraction, room-temperature superconductivity
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Scientists’ conduct affects science
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 in a compound called nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride. It seems the … Continue reading
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Tagged Douglas Natelson, Majorana zero modes, Microsoft Research, Mikhail Eremets, Nature journal, objectivity, Paul Feyerabend, Ranga Dias, rationalism, Russell Hemley, self-correcting
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