Other laboratories are scrutinizing the odd phenomenon.
Decoherence has also been measured in other laboratories under entirely different conditions.
The $4.2 million would have usually financed other laboratories at the institute.
Dr. Steere agreed that tests in some other laboratories were inaccurate but said his were not.
Opening up newborn screening to other laboratories would almost immediately lead to progress.
The field of superconductivity is littered with remarkable claims that never reappeared in other laboratories.
Researchers stress that the finding needs to be validated by other laboratories.
But doubt spread as other laboratories built bars that failed to match his results.
"Good stuff will repeat itself in other laboratories," Dr. Hebard said.
Concern has been growing in the past decade about published scientific claims that other laboratories can't successfully replicate.
This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.
