🔄From the archive: In these troubled times, enforced home-working is producing remarkable results for physicists and astronomers.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsOne of the great unsolved challenges in science is to create superconductors that work at room temperature. Now, in an extraordinary paper published at the beginning of this month, Ivan Timokhin and Artem Mishchenko have achieved room temperature superconductivity while working from a home during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Timokhin and Mishchenko say they have finally solved the problem using a novel approach. “Instead of increasing the critical temperature Tc of a superconductor, the temperature of the room was decreased to an appropriate Tc value,” they say. The team, which includes TV star Chris Lintott from the Lamb and Flag, a well-known local hostelry, point out that most work in this area has focused on planets that may be suitable for life. “Until now, though, little work has been devoted to deciding which of the potentially habitable planets might actually be worth existing on,” they say. “To this end, we present the Really Habitable Zone, defined as the region around a star where acceptable gins and tonic are likely to be abundant.
To prove the validity of this technique, Scott and Frolop use it to predict targets that astronomers have already identified as potential hosts for life. For example: The evidence becomes even more powerful when considering that Titan starts with T, the same as Terra, which is Latin for Earth.
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