The journal Nature has retracted the controversial paper on room-temperature superconductivity . In a paper published in October 2020, scientists reported that a compound composed of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur under ultra-high pressure can exhibit superconductivity at room temperature. But the paper quickly sparked controversy in the scientific community, with skeptics arguing that there was a data fabrication problem. Proponents and opponents fought a pen battle through the preprint platform arXiv, prompting arXiv administrators to ban one of the skeptics from publishing papers for half a year . Several scientists were unsuccessful in replicating the experimental results, while the authors of the paper expressed disappointment at Nature’s decision.
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