superconductors

Scientists have detected trace amounts of superconducting material inside one of the world’s largest meteorites,…

Newly published results offer compelling evidence that hydrogen is a metal at extremely high pressures. But is the…

This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics.

Physicist Eugene Paul Wigner predicted more than 80 years ago that hydrogen, the most abundant element in the…

Scientists have broken the record for the strongest continuous magnetic field, according to a new research paper.

A team of physicists has published peer-reviewed results documenting near-room-temperature superconductivity in the…

Zack Geballe spent months screwing together pairs of polished diamonds at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s…

High-temperature electricity without resistance could revolutionize electronics. It could take less energy to move…

Last year, a massive, 17-ton, 52-foot wide electromagnet was successfully shipped from Long Island to Illinois. This…

The smell of rotten eggs may make you think of a nasty garbage can situation, but someday it could help power your…

Superconductors are supposed to change the world. The only problem is that all of the materials we've used to…

Han purple is an ancient pigment that wasn't reconstructed by modern chemists until 1992. After the chemists got…

Science and electrical engineering types might have a list of practical uses for superconductors a mile long, but…

What do you get if you take some magnets, superconductors, and liquid nitrogen, and a slow-mo camera to film them…

Over the past four decades, the field of astrophysics has enjoyed a pair of massive technological advances. First,…

Superconducting magnets are freakin' awesome. You should know this already. But the folks at the Royal Institution…

While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Saturday, kids that are smarter than…

Everyone always bangs on about superconductors as if they're some super-amazing scientific miracle, but where's the…

By using the superconductors titanium nitride and niobium titanium nitride as the core of their new amplifier,…

The famous "superconductor monorail" was a wonderful visual demonstration of what superconductors do to magnets. At…