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I'm out of the loop, can someone please provide ELI5ed context for this?

• resolutebat 3y ago
  Korean scientists announce room-temperature superconductor. Ridiculous amounts of squabbling over who invented it immediately ensue, even though the jury's still out on whether it even works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99 The part I don't understand is why they don't just FedEx a sample of the stuff to another lab, so they could replicate the results immediately.
  • ble378 3y ago
    Bc that's not how independent scientific verification works. Other labs need to replicate it themselves to avoid/reduce any bias from the original experiment.
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• aae42 3y ago
  Some Korean researchers have released a couple half-baked papers apparently due to some infighting and a Nobel prize grab? Their claim is for an easily/cheaply synthesized room temperature ambient pressure superconductor. They call it LK-99.