iandanforth 8 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.

  • pama 8 hours ago

    Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?

    • kzrdude 7 hours ago

      I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.

      • scythe 2 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.

      • gestalt1 7 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-w 6 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.

  • ironqcold 7 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.

oliculipolicula 2 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

  • dgellow 2 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