Dan Garisto

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The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have committed data fabrication

November 18, 2024 | 08:00PM

Superconductivity researcher who committed misconduct exits university
Quantum machines have a noise threshold past which classical machines cannot best them, researchers have learnt

October 08, 2024 | 08:00PM

Google uncovers how quantum computers can beat today’s best supercomputers
Measurements at the Large Hadron Collider open the door to future high-energy tests of entanglement

September 17, 2024 | 08:00PM

Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time
A scientist reviewing a study spotted figures that looked identical to his own, leading to a frustrating campaign to prevent its publication

September 03, 2024 | 08:00PM

Publishing nightmare: a researcher’s quest to keep his own work from being plagiarized
Whistleblowers raise questions about the processing and sharing of raw data

August 09, 2024 | 08:00PM

Superconductivity paper spurs dispute as field reels from earlier scandal
Engineers are harnessing the powers of graphics processing units (GPUs) and more, with a bevy of tricks to meet the computational demands of artificial intelligence

June 03, 2024 | 08:00PM

Accelerating AI: the cutting-edge chips powering the computing revolution
Ranga Dias sued his university, in part, for allegedly conducting a biased investigation, which found he had committed extensive scientific misconduct

April 24, 2024 | 08:00PM

Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct

April 05, 2024 | 08:00PM

Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
$This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works$

This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works

March 24, 2024 | 08:00PM

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists
Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductors, but the work was later retracted

March 07, 2024 | 08:00PM

Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star's physics lab An investigation by Nature’s news team reveals new details about what happened — and how institutions missed red flags

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