{"id":113313,"date":"2020-09-22T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-just-discovered-a-brand-new-type-of-superconductor"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:23:28","slug":"physicists-just-discovered-a-brand-new-type-of-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-just-discovered-a-brand-new-type-of-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Discovered a Brand New Type of Superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-discovered-a-brand-new-type-of-superconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/372532a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long theorised<\/a> that there are other types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/superconductivity\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"superconductor\">superconductor<\/a> out there waiting to be discovered, and it turns out they were right: new research has identified a g-wave superconductor for the first time, a major development in this area of physics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/superconductivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Superconductors<\/a> are materials that offer no electrical resistance, so electricity can pass through them with close to 100 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds great when you think about the potential of super-efficient power grids that don\u2019t lose energy to heat. But there\u2019s a catch. Materials that are able to act in this way usually need to be cooled to ultra-low temperatures before the actual superconductivity starts happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long theorised that there are other types of superconductor out there waiting to be discovered, and it turns out they were right: new research has identified a g-wave superconductor for the first time, a major development in this area of physics. Superconductors are materials that offer no electrical resistance, so electricity can pass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}