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Superconductor Breakthrough Findings Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
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The fact that this has been replicated is amazing!

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LBNL did not replicate, they simulated the material and found it promising. The lattice of the materials need some sort of substitution to happen in an less likely way, someone with knowledge will have to summarize better.

This is how it starts though. Smaller labs do simulations and get promising results which gets the attention of bigger labs with the capacity for actual experimentation.

We're talking about Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory doing the simulation here. That is not a small research facility.

Seems to be exactly the opposite of what you describe. Actual experiment shows promise, then large lab runs simulation.