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Science raconteur. Author of Dinner with King Tut, among other books. samkean.com/podcast
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Home Sam Kean Back To Home Sam Kean News 26 Jun 2026By Sam Kean Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted? Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck.
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Wezuwiusz niemal zwęgił te starożytne zwoje. Sztuczna inteligencja pozwoliła je odczytać po dwóch tysiącach lat

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By Sam Kean
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Spis treści: Pierwsze odczytane zwoje z Herkulanum Technologia wspiera archeologię Erupcja Wezuwiusza w 79 roku n.e., która spustoszyła Pompeje, pogrzebała również pobliskie miasto Herkulanum. Przykryło jego słynną bibliotekę w Willi Papirusów pod 18-metrową warstwą popiołu i skał. Setki zwojów przetrwały piekło właśnie dzięki temu. Zamiast spłonąć, spiekły się i przekształciły w zdeformowane bryły. Są tak kruche, że archeolodzy bali się ich dotykać.
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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

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By Sam Kean
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The link was too juicy not to click. In early May, Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec (UQ) at Montreal, was browsing Retraction Watch, a website that catalogs fraud, data manipulation, and other scientific sins. He noticed a link that read, “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners.” Were there really Nobel laureates whose papers had been withdrawn from the scientific literature? After clicking, Gingras froze. “That’s impossible,” he recalls thinking.
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