Never say never - or for that matter, "insoluble." That's the philosophy of Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, whose theory of superconductivity - once thought to be an insoluble, or impossible to ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. — Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But that energy loss isn’t a given. Scientists at Penn ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But that energy loss isn’t a given. Scientists at Penn State have found a new ...

A researcher has introduced a new theory for superconductivity that can better explain the results of recent experiments with high-temperature superconductors. By focusing on the 'Berry connection,' ...

New mechanism of superconductivity discovered in graphene. Placing a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate in the vicinity of a graphene layer confers superconductivity to the material. Superconductivity is a ...

The discovery of a cheap new superconductor 1 has sent physicists scuttling back to their labs with an excitement not witnessed since the heyday of superconductor research in the 1980s, delegates ...

Basic research into the electrical and thermal properties of metallic, magnetic and organic materials is leading to the discovery of novel superconductors. Research into superconductivity is enjoying ...

Maddury Somayazulu, an experimental physicist who goes by Zulu, could only hope that being close would be good enough. In an equipment-crammed room at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, he was ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany say that lanthanum hydride (LaH 10) could be superconducting at the remarkably high temperature of 250 K (–23 °C), albeit at ...

For nearly 30 years, the search for a room-temperature superconductor has focused on exotic materials known as cuprates, which can carry currents without losing energy as heat at temperatures up to ...