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The search for the room-temperature superconductor continues. Charles O'Rear/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images

December 5, 2023

Scientists have been researching superconductors for over a century, but they have yet to find one that works at room temperature − 3 essential reads

Mary Magnuson, The Conversation

Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. We pulled three stories from our archives on what superconductivity is and why scientists study it.

Photograph of the first Solvay Conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropole. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is standing third from the right. Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia Commons

October 3, 2023

Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive a century after a Nobel went to the scientist who demonstrated it below ‑450 degrees Fahrenheit

David D. Nolte, Purdue University

Superconductivity may sound like science fiction, but the first experiments to achieve it were conducted over a century ago. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, credited with the discovery, won a Nobel Prize in 1913.

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