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by aesh2Xa1 1201 days ago
> Given the importance of the new discovery, Dias and his team went to unusual lengths to document their research and head off criticism that developed in the wake of the previous Nature paper, which led to a retraction by the journal’s editors. That previous paper has been resubmitted to Nature with new data that validates the earlier work, according to Dias. The new data was collected outside the lab, at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in front of an audience of scientists who saw the superconducting transition live. A similar approach has been taken with the new paper.
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Until this replicated by another lab I'd say we can't take it at face value not just because the same lab was forced to retract another groundbreaking paper because of questionable results but also because this would be a monumental discovery and needs verification.