Ezio Todesco charts the future of high-field dipole magnets – a technology set to advance the boundaries of high-energy physics and the societal applications of superconductivity.

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 ...

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 ...

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...

Russian fuel manufacturer TVEL expects one of its subsidiaries to be able to create superconductors with enhanced performance for new "high energy physics megaprojects" by 2019. Russian fuel ...

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 ...

Physicists, engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Particle Accelerator Laboratory, led by Henryk Piekarz, just demonstrated the world’s fastest magnetic ramping ...

Researchers have made a significant step in the study of a new class of high-temperature superconductors: creating superconductors that work at room pressure. That advance lays the groundwork for ...

Hitting a material with laser light can produce a flash of superconductivity -- the ability to carry electric current with no loss -- and may offer a path toward room-temperature conductivity. Much ...

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 ...

An experimental board containing a superconducting tape-shaped HTS material called Bi-2223 and a controlled heater is used to test the thermal runaway-based concept of magnet protection. Credit: ...