A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric ...

Physicists have demonstrated that a slab of hexagonal boron nitride, acting as a built-in infrared light cavity, can suppress superconductivity in an adjacent organic material without any external ...

A team of more than 30 physicists and materials scientists published a detailed strategy for reaching room-temperature superconductivity, identifying the most promising material families, the biggest ...

A wafer-thin layer of rust, formed naturally in air, helped researchers spot a behavior many physicists have chased for decades. That oxide, hematite (α-Fe2O3), appeared on the top layer of a stacked ...

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...

An international team of researchers has shown that superconductivity can be modified by coupling a superconductor to a dark electromagnetic cavity. The research opens the door to the control of a ...

With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor. Since it was found to be a superconductor about five years ago, uranium ...

Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens. Their superconductivity — a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to flow without energy ...

Scientists no longer need to rely solely on guesswork or complex, expensive experiments—they can visualize the “electron highways” in silico and focus on the most promising candidates. If Liu’s vision ...