A 20-year-old Superconductor Mystery Solved

Superconductors are a class of materials that display exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect) at extremely low temperatures, usually below -140 degrees Celsius. They are used in many applications, like MRI medical imaging scan... [ read more >> ]

A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.

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A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.