'Red matter' superconductor may not be a wonder material after all

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Physics

A worldly called reddish matter, aft the colour alteration it undergoes erstwhile subjected to pressure, was hailed arsenic a imaginable country somesthesia superconductor, but present different researchers are uncovering they can't replicate the results

By Alex Wilkins

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17 March 2023

Red substance  superconductor

Attempts to recreate reddish substance nether assorted pressures failed to replicate the material’s changing colour

Nanjing University

Red matter, a worldly that researchers past week claimed showed grounds of being a room-temperature superconductor with the committedness of revolutionising electronics, mightiness not beryllium truthful ace aft all, aft different radical has struggled to replicate the results.

Last week, Ranga Dias astatine the University of Rochester successful New York and his colleagues said they had created a superconducting worldly – 1 that allows energy to travel with zero absorption – that they called reddish …

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