Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Physicists in China report the creation of a new nickel-based high-temperature superconductor at room pressure. The South China ...

Scientists in South Korea have begun developing a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor, if new claims are to be believed. The claim is published in a paper on the arXiv pre-publish server ...

When cooled to its superconducting state, niobium blocks the radiative flow of heat 20 times better than when in its metallic ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The world desperately needs a room-temperature superconductor—a material that exhibits no electrical ...

The practical applications of superconductors have been known for decades, but these have been hindered because most superconducting materials have to be cooled with liquid helium to near absolute ...

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LK99 is the material that South Korean researchers claimed was a room temperature superconductor. The patents and the original papers described superconducting low level electrical resistance for thin ...

Room-temperature superconductivity has been the self-driving car of physics, with scientists predicting that a breakthrough was five years away for the past 50 years. Still, a new discovery could be ...

Russia is pushing to the front of the nuclear fusion race with a record-setting high-temperature superconductor wire designed ...

Ferroelectricity has been found in a superconducting compound. Strong coupling between these two properties enables ferroelectric control of the superconductivity, which could prove useful for quantum ...