Despite a retraction, a room-temperature superconductor claim isn’t dead yet

A replication of part of an earlier experiment bolsters the reports of a contested study

photo of a room-temperature superconductor material being squeezed between two diamonds

New experiments seem to bolster a recently retracted claim of room-temperature superconductivity in a blend of hydrogen, sulfur and a bit of carbon squeezed to enormous pressures in a diamond anvil like this one.

Adam Fenster

It may be too soon to mourn the demise of a room-temperature superconductivity claim.