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Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. We pulled three stories from our archives on what superconductivity is and why scientists study it.

Netflix's competition takes all the wrong lessons from the South Korean hit that inspired it

In a stunning display of media literacy, Squid Game: The Challenge producer Tim Harcourt would like you to know that Squid Game was mostly about playing games.

It was the second paper led by Ranga P. Dias, a researcher at the University of Rochester, that the journal Nature has retracted.

After decades of hype, quantum computers are on the verge of becoming useful. Here’s a refresher on why they’re such a big deal

The hunt for a superconductive material at room temperature remains alluring and has given rise to many claims which have, however, been subsequently disproved

MIT physicists coaxed superconductivity and more from quasicrystals. The work introduces a flexible platform for making the enigmatic materials that could jump-start interest in the field and allow new studies of exotic phenomena.

Photograph of the first Solvay Conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropole. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is standing third from the right. Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia CommonsOn April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.” The note referred to the electrical resistance he’d measured during a landmark experiment that would later be credited as the discovery of superconductivity. But ...

Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny?

Eight of the 11 authors are asking to retract a paper on a room-temperature superconductor, but Ranga Dias, the physicist who led the research, continued to defend the findings.