LK-99 may not end up being the room-temperature superconductor we all hope for. But perhaps these findings, and renewed excitement, will lead to other advances that offer high-speed, energy-efficient trains, viable and cheap quantum supercomputers, and highly-scalable batteries to store renewable energy
South Korean researchers have purportedly developed a groundbreaking superconductor, dubbed "LK-99", that operates at room temperature and standard atmospheric pressure.
Room-temperature superconductivity has been the self-driving car of physics, with scientists predicting that a breakthrough was five years away for the p.