Physicists in Japan have found superconductivity at a surprisingly high temperature in the simple, readily available metallic compound magnesium diboride.
The discovery that the material can carry electric current with no resistance, reported in the March 1 Nature by Jun Akimitsu and his coworkers at Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo, has startled scientists.
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