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Physicist who worked on room temperature superconductor accused of ‘research misconduct’


A committee found “data reliability concerns” in the research.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. An investigation has found that the physicist who claimed to have developed the world’s first room-temperature superconductor engaged in “research misconduct,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Ranga Dias, a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Rochester, has been under investigation by a committee of outside experts since last August over concerns about the accuracy of his findings.

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