Episode 29: Superconductors: The Search for 0K

The team goes over the history of superconductors. Their uses in making mind bogglingly fast trains and how their discovery paralleled the bottles we use to keep our water cold. All framed around the new discovery of a room temperature super conductor that isn't exactly room pressure...

References:
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200704/history.cfm
https://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/cold/DelftKes_HKO_PT.pdf

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