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Connecting Two Different Types of Unconventional Superconductors

The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics.

12 Nov 2020

Research Explains How Electrons Supertransport Current in 'Bad Metals'

In jargon, they are called "bad metals", but they are not really so bad. As a matter of fact, they are the best superconductors because they are able to conduct current with the highest efficiency and without resistance up to high temperatures.

12 Nov 2020

LHCb Observation: First Experimental Evidence of a Four-Charm Tetraquark

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms.

12 Nov 2020

USask Physicist Joins with UK Partners to Develop New a Quantum Magnetometer

As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly sensitive and precise sensor for measuring magnetic fields, a technology of potential benefit for geological prospecting, medicine, and quantum computers.

11 Nov 2020

New Isotope-Separation Facility Used to Make Beams of Heavy Tantalum Isotopes

An international group of researchers has demonstrated the production of a purified beam of neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions.

11 Nov 2020

Astronomers Record First Direct Discovery of a Cold Brown Dwarf

Researchers of a collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, have reported the first-ever direct observation of a cold brown dwarf using its radio wavelength emission.

10 Nov 2020