The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
This one is pretty huge by the standards of this thread, and almost deserves its own thread, except the material is brittle and can't carry that much current or support a large magnetic field while superconducting. But hey, this is big progress, and at least it's using lead and not some rare-earth that would be too expensive to use everywhere.
It's hot off the preprint so no news stories yet, so you get the study, and a fine and elegantly crafted link to a Hacker News discussion on it.
This one is pretty huge by the standards of this thread, and almost deserves its own thread, except the material is brittle and can't carry that much current or support a large magnetic field while superconducting. But hey, this is big progress, and at least it's using lead and not some rare-earth that would be too expensive to use everywhere.
It's hot off the preprint so no news stories yet, so you get the study, and a fine and elegantly crafted link to a Hacker News discussion on it.
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