room-temperature superconductivity

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?…

Is Dias bringing the bus back?

Aug 16, 2023 3 min read

Scicomm Science Ashkan Salamat lutetium hydride manganese sulphide Physical Review Letters Ranga P Dias research misconduct room-temperature superconductivity The New York Times University of Nevada University of Rochester

So Physical Review Letters formally retracted that paper about manganese sulphide, in the limelight for having been coauthored by Ranga P. Dias, yesterday. The retraction notice states: "Of the a…

What's with superconductors and peer-review?

Aug 6, 2023 7 min read

Analysis Scicomm Science academic publishing arXiv Jan Hendrik Schön LK-99 Nature journal peer review preprint papers Ranga P Dias room-temperature superconductivity Science journal

Throughout the time I've been a commissioning editor for science-related articles for news outlets, I've always sought and published articles about academic publishing. It's the part of th…