Scientists worldwide are pursuing materials that could show superconductivity at "very high" temperatures -- in this context, closer to room temperature -- without requiring super-cooling. In a paper ...

New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

By determining the material’s maximum achievable superconducting temperature, 60 Kelvin, Cornell researchers are advancing the comprehension of how it reaches this state, according to a study ...

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