3 comments

  • gavinray 1 day ago

      > "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)"
    
    I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.
  • oliculipolicula 2 days ago
    That was fun but this is gun?

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4

    The two teams could "synergize" their tacit knowledge, overcome "involution"?

    Without open peer review like in the old days it's hard, even with frontier models, for nonexperts to know if the above breakthrough was (unfairly?) relegated or how significant TFA is truly

    • BigTTYGothGF 17 hours ago
      > open peer review like in the old days it's hard

      I'm not sure the old days ever had that.

    • dgellow 20 hours ago
      In that case you can ignore the article, if it is really significant for layman you will see more articles in the coming weeks/months with simpler explanations
    • RenSoft 1 day ago
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  • iandanforth 1 day ago
    The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.
    • pama 1 day ago
      Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?
      • kzrdude 1 day ago
        I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.
        • scythe 20 hours ago
          The cause of anomalous (>40 K) high superconducting transition temperatures in mixed copper (III) oxides is one of the most, if not the most, intensively studied questions in condensed-matter physics. If the researchers believe their experimental system can answer those questions, "vast" and "unprecedented" would be appropriate.
        • gestalt1 1 day ago
          Maybe just a combination of academic jargon and English not being the authors first language? At this point I would also not be surprised if language models are used for writing abstracts.
          • p-e-w 1 day ago
            This is Nature. If they stopped doing editorial work regarding writing style, and use LLMs to generate abstracts, it seems they have outlived their usefulness.
    • ironqcold 1 day ago
      I noticed that too.The writing style itself seems a bit strange. I'm not deep into superconductors, so I can't judge the science itself but I have doubts about how much trust this article can give.