New Type of superconductivity spotted

[mrgoodbar]

Superconductors, materials that carry electricity without resistance, can be divided into two broad groups depending on how they react to a magnetic field--or so physicists thought. New experiments show that one well-studied superconductor actually belongs to both groups at the same time. "If the experiment is true, this would add a whole new class of superconductors," says Egor Babaev, a theorist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The advance may not immediately lead to new gadgets and applications, but it suggests that superconductivity, which has already netted four Nobel Prizes, may be an even richer phenomenon that previously thought.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/313/1

[BlackopsNinja]

Very interesting read, thank you. Wonder what kind of gadgets they could make from this?

[Sydney-Floyd]

Interesting read, thanks for this. Right up my alley.

On a tangent, I wonder how much time will pass before we start to see the 0 degrees celcius, or the room temperature superconductor.

[Struwwelpeter]

This is the future of warfare.

[JREwing]

This is the future of warfare.

Scientific progress is made, and you immediately start thinking of new ways to blow stuff up with it?

[KillSwitch_J]

Scientific progress is made, and you immediately start thinking of new ways to blow stuff up with it?

I think JFLC may have been thinking, that the military will probably find a way to use it as a weapon.