New Type of Superconductivity Spotted 71
sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from a story about research into an unusual form of superconductivity:"Superconductors, materials that carry electricity without resistance, can be divided into two broad groups depending on how they react to a magnetic field — or so physicists thought. New experiments show that one well-studied superconductor actually belongs to both groups at the same time. The advance may not immediately lead to new gadgets and applications, but it suggests that superconductivity, which has already netted four Nobel Prizes, may be an even richer phenomenon than previously thought."
Re:Anyone seen Primer? (Score:3, Interesting)
It may have involved superconductors, but I think they were trying to do something with gravity at first. Hence measuring the change in weight of the object in the box, before they found the box's other properties.
Space - application with today's Superconductors (Score:5, Interesting)
A room-temperature superconductor would be nice, but even with today's superconductors a hell of a lot can be done...in space!
With all this talk of inter-planetary space travel, space provides the right temperature without expensive cooling systems. Simply insulate the superconductors from direct sunlight and you get great applications like passive superconductor magnetic bearings and other cool oddities that you would only get with expensive cooling systems here on earth.
Re:Space - application with today's Superconductor (Score:3, Interesting)
Space isn't really cold... And any heat built up would need to be radiated away, not removed through conduction or convection. I'm not very well versed in this all, but I expect these limitations would actually make it hard to do all that much with...
Re:Space - application with today's Superconductor (Score:3, Interesting)
and to think, i could get modded insightful sometimes if i bothered to use proper sentence structure...
So then... (Score:1, Interesting)
they're biconductors?