[Rockhounds] It’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor - follow-up to previous Rockhound List Posts

[Paul]

As a follow-up to previous Rockhound List Posts:

It’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor
Tim De Chant, TechCrunch, August 18, 2023
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/lk-99-room-temperature-superconductor/

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
Efforts to replicate the material have pieced together the puzzle of why
it displayed superconducting-like behaviours.
Dan Garisto, Nature, August 16, 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7

Superconductor Scientist Faces Investigation as a Paper Is Retracted
Kenneth Chang, New York Times, August 15, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/science/retraction-ranga-dias-rochester.html

Yours,

Paul H.