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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

Superconductors are used in some kinds of maglev (magnetic levitation) trains : trains that are not propelled along a track on wheels, but which float above their track and are propelled by magnetic force. They are used much as a battery might be, but they work through a totally different mechanism. Then there’s quantum computing.

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