Cost- and energy-efficient rapid cycling magnets for particle accelerators are critical for particle physics research. Their performance determines how frequently a circular particle accelerator can ...

Ming Yi, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, has spent the last decade unraveling the fundamental secrets of high-temperature superconductivity - a phenomenon that could ...

Now, researchers have observed that a necessary characteristic of a superconductor—called electron pairing—occurs at much higher temperatures than previously thought, and in a material where one least ...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientists are embedding elementary particles into a layered nickel oxide superconductor to learn more about its magnetic properties. Nickelates, the scientists ...

Understanding strontium titanate's odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures Until about 50 years ago, all known ...

New accelerator magnets are undergoing a rigorous training program to prepare them for the extreme conditions inside the upgraded Large Hadron Collider. When training for a marathon, runners must ...

WASHINGTON — Space industry startups focused on satellite propulsion, in-orbit manufacturing and debris tracking won prize money from a business accelerator funded by the U.S. Space Force. The ...

The finding could help future efforts to design superconductors that work at higher temperatures. For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties ...