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

High-temperature superconductivity is one of the great mysteries of modern physics: Some materials conduct electrical current ...

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

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

Few areas of research have captivated scientists more than the search for room-temperature superconductivity. Finding a way ...

Leon Cooper, who has died aged 94, shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with his fellow Americans John Bardeen and John Schrieffer for their development of a theory, known as the ...

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

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Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in observing intrinsic magnetic structures in kagome lattices, which may ...

Color map of the differential conductance as a function of increasing magnetic field (x axis) in niobium deposited on 2D molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2). The red spikes are oscillations of the ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 22 – Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from Intellectual Ventures, a global leader in the business of ...