Room-temperature superconductors: too good to be true?

They may be "room-temperature," but this superconductor research may be the world's most sustainable source of HOT scientific controversy! One of the world's most prestigious journals, Nature, retracts yet another published paper on these supposed superconductive materials, while multiple universities investigate the paper's senior author for breaches of academic integrity.
But what is a superconductor anyway? Why do we care that they're room temperature? Come for the science, stay for the drama on today's episode of May Contain Science!
Article - "Retraction Note: Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride" doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06...
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[@Althaven_]

wow bromine!

[@meander112]

One of these days, it'll be good enough to be true.

[@sgpch1983]

beautiful sam ❤😍