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> What are they doing?! Trying to make ad money with views, which is their profit incentive. Mouse models are nearly always spun as applicable to humans, whic
by nomel 3y ago
> What are they doing?!
Trying to make ad money with views, which is their profit incentive.
Mouse models are nearly always spun as applicable to humans, which an average, aging, viewer would be interested, usually relating to "Cure <ailment>", "regrow limbs", "stop aging", etc.
The average viewer isn't interested in superconductors, and the 10 seconds the news orgs have for each bit of news isn't enough to explain them.
- arcticfox 3y agoThe NYT has published 3 articles about room-temperature superconductors since March; all about the insanely high-pressure one that is INFINITELY less exciting than the new claim and turned out to be bunk anyways.
- kragen 3y agohmm, the high-pressure room-temperature superconductor turned out not to actually be real? wp says In 2020, a room-temperature superconductor (critical temperature 288 K) made from hydrogen, carbon and sulfur under pressures of around 270 gigapascals was described in a paper in Nature.[71][72] However in 2022 the article was retracted by the editors because the validity of background subtraction procedures had been called into question. All nine authors maintain that the raw data strongly support the main claims of the paper.[73]