Leon N. Cooper, a Nobel laureate physicist whose work on subatomic anomalies helped explain why electricity can flow without ...

Graphene is a simple material containing only a single layer of carbon atoms, but when two sheets of it are stacked together ...

Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity and the Department of Physics at the University of Houston have ...

Leon Cooper, who has died aged 94, shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with his fellow Americans John Bardeen and John ...

Few areas of research have captivated scientists more than the search for room-temperature superconductivity. Finding a way ...

High-temperature superconductivity is one of the great mysteries of modern physics: Some materials conduct electrical current ...

He shared the 1972 physics prize for showing how some materials could convey electricity without resistance. He also did ...

Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from ...

Don’t hold your breath A team of boffins from Europe and South America have emerged from their smoke filled labs claiming a ...

Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from ...

Liangzi Deng (left) and Paul C.W. Chu (right) of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston ...

Professor Minna Hakkarainen and her colleagues will combine advanced experimental and theoretical methods to map the ...