News Summary

• That’s not room temperature, but it’s much easier to maintain than existing high-temperature superconductors, which have to be at around –170°C (–274°F).If the paper’s results are what they say, that is.It wouldn’t be the first time people’s hopes were dashed..
• Another one, detailed in a paper co-authored by Ranga Dias and others, made a splash in March only to be subject to a retraction in September.This new material picks up where LK-99 left off, which isn’t really an auspicious starting point..
• In the paper, the Chinese team says the material exhibits one of the properties of superconductors at temperatures as warm as –23°C (–9.4°F)..
• The one that grabbed the most headlines — LK-99 — dominated the internet for a few weeks over the summer before succumbing to the scientific method..
• (It should be noted that most of these people do not appear to be scientists let alone condensed-matter physicists.).
• Last year was a banner year for room-temperature superconductors that weren’t..