gavinray6 hours ago
> "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)"
pfdietz4 hours ago
The material is doped by varying the overall oxidation state of the copper, which is balanced by the number of oxygen ions.
gimmeThaBeet4 hours ago
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oliculipolicula5 hours ago
iandanforth8 hours 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.
pama8 hours ago
Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?
kzrdude7 hours ago
I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.
scythe2 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.
gestalt17 hours 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-w6 hours 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.
lazide5 hours ago
New here?
ironqcold7 hours 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.
oliculipolicula2 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
dgellow2 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
RenSoft8 hours ago
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