The Curious Case of a Revolutionary (But Imaginary?) Superconductor
b'On July 23, Dev Kumar Thapa and Anshu Pandey made an extraordinary claim online. It wasn\\u2019t your garden variety fake news: By cramming microscopic particles of gold and silver together into pellets, they said, they\\u2019d constructed the first ever room-temperature superconductor. In a 13-page PDF, the two chemists at the Indian Institute of Science laid out measurements that indicated the pellets could conduct electricity perfectly at temperatures as warm as 110 degrees Fahrenheit.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'