Physicist Ranga Dias is facing an investigation by the University of Rochester following the retraction of a controversial paper claiming the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor. The retraction was requested by eight co-authors who stated that the published paper did not accurately represent the investigated materials and experimental measurements. This is the third high-profile retraction involving Dias and his colleague Ashkan Salamat. Dias has previously been accused of plagiarizing portions of his PhD thesis. The claims made in the paper were met with skepticism from the scientific community, and many believe the retraction was inevitable.
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