Earlier this year, Fermilab scientist Anna Grassellino began researching past successes and failures of accelerator cavities made of bulk-diffused niobium-nitride. Scientists reported less-than-stellar results in their tests in the 1990s and, in the years since, appeared to have mostly abandoned the material as a possibility for superconducting cavities. But Grassellino...

Many researchers studying superconductivity strive to create a clean, pure, perfect sample, but a team of physicists at Purdue University found that some flaws might hold the key to a material's unique abilities.

Refrigerating coal plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air—including carbon dioxide— by more than 90 percent, at a cost of 25 percent efficiency, according to a simple math-driven formula designed by a team of University of Oregon physicists.

The Curiosity rover, currently on Mars after recently landing in a tricky operation controlled by National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA) technicians, includes a refrigerator manufactured in Israel.

British researchers have, for the first time, built a prototype solid-state maser that works at room-temperature, with no permanent applied magnetic field.

I have to perform a cost estimation of our helium cryogenic plant design. I based it on the formula discussed in the following article “THE COST OF HELIUM REFRIGERATORS AND COOLERS FOR SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES AS A FUNCTION OF COOLING AT 4 K” by M. A. Green: C(M$) = 2.6 [R(kW)]^0.63...