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Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.

Heat + pressure + yttrium + a politically savvy University of Houston physicist = a formula to change the world.

The EPR-paradox, as it is commonly known as, is a thought experiment targeted at the philosophy of quantum mechanics, at that time represented by the Co...

Engineer Who Won The Nobel Prize Twice In Physics May 9, 2021 1 comments Winning the Nobel Prize once is no easy feat let alone winning it twice! The first ever person to do so was chemist and physicist Marie Curie as many of you might already know. Similarly, John Bardeen has won the prestigious prize for physics first in 1956 and then in 1972. Although, if you happen to watch The Big Bang Theory, it might come off as surprising that he was an engineer by profession. Bardeen (1908-1991) comple...

News Join our Community of 625,000+ Engineers Register News Historical Engineers: John Bardeen, Creator of the Transistor and Theory of Superconductivity February 19, 2021 by Luke James Awarded the Nobel Prize twice, John Bardeen is often recognized as one of the founders of the first transistor and the theory of superconductivity. John Bardeen—one of history’s most significant engineers you might have never heard of—was one of only a few individuals awarded the Nobel Prize twice, and th...