{"id":88475,"date":"2019-03-07T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/researchers-close-in-on-physics-holy-grail-with-super-breakthrough"},"modified":"2019-03-07T01:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T09:22:26","slug":"researchers-close-in-on-physics-holy-grail-with-super-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/researchers-close-in-on-physics-holy-grail-with-super-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Researchers close in on physics\u2019 holy grail with \u2018super\u2019 breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-close-in-on-physics-holy-grail-with-super-breakthrough.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists in the US has brought us a huge step closer to a superconductor capable of working at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>If humankind were to find a way to construct a large-scale superconductor that could work at room temperature, the way our energy grids and computers are built \u2013 and many other areas of daily life \u2013 would be fundamentally changed.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon is the lack of electrical resistance and is observed in many materials when they are cooled below temperatures of around &minus;180 degrees Celsius, making them rather limited in their application. However, a team from George Washington University in the US has revealed something that could help us finally reach what is one of the most sought-after achievements in modern physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/machines\/superconductor-physics-holy-grail-breakthrough\">https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/machines\/superconductor-phys...eakthrough<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists in the US has brought us a huge step closer to a superconductor capable of working at room temperature. If humankind were to find a way to construct a large-scale superconductor that could work at room temperature, the way our energy grids and computers are built \u2013 and many other areas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88475","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}