Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

35 pointssbulaev3 days ago10 commentsView on HN

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

iandanforth4 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.

pama4 hours ago

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

kzrdude4 hours ago

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

gestalt13 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-w2 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.

lazide1 hour ago

New here?

ironqcold3 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.

gavinray2 hours ago

  > "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)"

I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.

oliculipolicula1 hour ago

https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/05/characteristi...

pfdietz58 minutes ago

The material is doped by varying the overall oxidation state of the copper, which is balanced by the number of oxygen ions.

gimmeThaBeet9 minutes ago

Yes, those are all words