Scientists have set a new record for superconductivity at normal pressure, bringing the field closer to practical, real-world applications.

A new technique has enabled a superconductor to surpass a 33-year-old temperature record, achieving -122 °C at room pressure.

Scientists predict new carbon-hydrogen matter state that conducts electricity directionally under extreme pressures found in ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to predict dozens of previously unknown carbon crystal structures, including at ...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN uses superconducting magnets to accelerate and direct a particle beam. Discovery of superconductors that work at (or close to) room temperatures would represent a ...

Professor Paul Ching-Wu Chu holds a diamond anvil cell (DAC) in a University of Houston lab. The DAC was used to help Chu's team break the temperature record for superconductivity at ambient pressure.

For a century, superconductivity has been something physicists find, not something they build. Strain engineering in ...

Superconductivity is the ability to transmit energy without any resistance when an object is cooled to a certain temperature. For more than 30 years, that temperature was 220 degrees Fahrenheit below ...

Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not Ania Bleszynski Jayich. The UC Santa Barbara physicist sees ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in the methane lakes of Saturn's largest moon. Through results published in ...

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