Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?(twitter.com)

313 points by kochie 3 years ago | 178 comments

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning(twitter.com)

104 points by the_decider 3 years ago | 5 comments

Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated(x.com)

41 points by doener 2 years ago | 27 comments

On Sleeper Agent LLMs(twitter.com)

253 points by admp 2 years ago | 85 comments

Focused Ultrasound(twitter.com)

152 points by birriel 3 years ago | 43 comments

The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday(twitter.com)

88 points by wilg 2 years ago | 84 comments

Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99(twitter.com)

500 points by gabesullice 3 years ago | 313 comments

Tweet by Andrew McCalip showing a video of his LK-99 superconductor replication sample tested with a magnet for the Meissner effect on day 8.5.

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor(nature.com)

2063 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 679 comments

Nature news article from August 2023 explaining how researchers determined that LK-99 is not a room-temperature superconductor.

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be(science.org)

1142 points by etiam 3 years ago | 450 comments

Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org discussing claims of a room-temperature superconductor and assessing the strength of the evidence.

The Google Willow Thing(scottaaronson.blog)

711 points by Bootvis 1 year ago | 390 comments

Scott Aaronson's blog post commenting on Google's announcement of Willow, a 105-qubit superconducting chip demonstrating surface code error correction and random circuit sampling.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.