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Scientist behind superconductivity claims ousted | After claims of high-temp superconductivity were retracted, Ranga Dias lost his university job.

After claims of high-temp superconductivity were retracted, Ranga Dias lost his university job.

While the results were plausible, the details regarding how some of the data was processed to produce one of the paper's key graphs were lacking, and Dias didn't provide a clear explanation. However, Nature News talked to Dias' grad students and learned he told them that the key data came from before he had set up his own lab, which, he argued, explained why they weren't aware of it. Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series.

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