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Federal fraud charges crumble in cases against scientists with China ties
The U.S. government overplayed its hand in prosecuting U.S. academics under the controversial China Initiative, three federal courts ruled last week.
In separate cases, attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) had maintained that chemist Franklin Tao, materials scientist Zhengdong Cheng, and mathematician Mingqing Xiao jeopardized the nation’s security and defrauded the...
‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted
In 2020, Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, and his colleagues published a
sensational result
in
Nature
, featured on its cover. They claimed to have discovered a room-temperature superconductor: a material in which electric current flows frictionlessly without any need for special cooling systems. Although it was just a...