New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered

Click Here to Read: New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered: Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup by Charlie Wood on the Wired website on January 12, 2025.

Levitation of a magnet on a superconductor Image: Julien Bobroff (user:Jubobroff), Frederic Bouquet (user:Fbouquet), Jeffrey Quilliam, LPS, Orsay, France. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds

Click Here to Read: The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds: Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses? By Matthew Hutson in The New Yorker on December 29, 2024.

Illustration from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 102.jpg.  Image: Rawpixel Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.