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Ranga Dias, a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at University of Rochester whose team is doing superconductivity research, at the school in Rochester, N.Y., March 2, 2023. The team’s claim of discovering a room-temperature superconductor drew doubts and suspicion when it was published in March, but researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago now say they have verified the claim’s critical measurement: the apparent vanishing of electrical resistance. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)