💬 Quoted… “We respectfully request and recommend that Nature issue a retraction.”

The co-authors of a study that claimed to have discovered the world’s first room-temperature superconductor are now asking the journal Nature to retract the study because the lead researcher, University of Rochester physicist Ranga Dias, had misinterpreted the data (which, unlike the best engagement parties, shouldn’t come as a surprise).

• Since the seemingly groundbreaking study was published in March, dozens of scientific teams around the world have tried – and failed – to replicate the room-temperature superconductor, despite using the same method and materials as the original research.

💊 Stat of the Day: 9 million = the number of prescriptions for Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar anti-obesity drugs written by US health care providers during the last three months of 2022, representing a 300% increase compared to early 2020.

🤔 Did You Know?... In the MLB, it’s possible for a player to be traded for themselves, due to the widespread use of a clause known as “player to be named later”; this has occurred four times in league history.

📰 Worth a Read: Inside Apple’s spectacular failure to build a key part for its new iPhones → (WSJ)