Why hospitals are hotbeds for coronavirus transmission
At 31.9%, the intensive care unit specialised for taking care of COVID-19 patients was the most contaminated in the hospital. And nearly 14% of all commonly used hospital objects and…
Category: Preprint
Lancet retracts letter on plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients
The Lancet Global Health retracts a letter about the plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan published on February 26. Can editors of peer-reviewed journals take a moral high-ground…
Coronavirus: A preprint provides ammunition to conspiracy theories about virus origin
A preprint by two Chinese authors has without a shred of evidence provided much ammunition to conspiracy theories that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) might have come from a Chinese lab.…
Plants emit ultrasonic distress screams when stressed
Researchers at Tel-Aviv University have found plants making airborne emission of ultrasound screams when subjected to stress. They suspect that the sounds are generated by a process called cavitation. The…
IISc team submits more evidence of superconductivity
In a new preprint posted in arXiv on June 5, the IISc team has provided evidence of signatures of critical current — the current at which the superconductor is no…
IISc team provides video evidence of superconductivity at room temperature
IISc researchers have posted a video evidence of diamagnetism causing magnetic levitation at ambient temperature and pressure. In the video, the nanoparticles made of gold-silver mixture seen inside a test…
Finally, IISc team confirms breakthrough in superconductivity at room temperature
The revised article posted in arXiv on May 21 by IISc researchers led by Prof. Anshu Pandey strengthens the claim of achieving superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure. About the…
IISc superconductivity claim gets another jolt, IISER Pune finds no superconductivity in Au/Ag films
After Brian Skinner, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, raised a red flag after noticing nearly identical noise in two presumably independent measurements in IISc superconductivity study, IISER…
