Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect(twitter.com)

279 points by dtx1 3 years ago | 146 comments

July 2023 was the hottest month on record(twitter.com)

89 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 91 comments

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test(twitter.com)

453 points by enraged_camel 5 months ago | 489 comments

An X post from NASASpaceflight reporting, with video, that Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at LC-36 during a static fire test ahead of NG-4.

That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere(twitter.com)

96 points by doener 3 years ago | 98 comments

SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly(twitter.com)

240 points by Ankaios 1 year ago | 371 comments

DirectX 12 Support on macOS(twitter.com)

247 points by doener 3 years ago | 93 comments

First claimed successful replication of LK-99(twitter.com)

551 points by b800h 3 years ago | 255 comments

A tweet by Andrew Cote reporting a claimed replication of the LK-99 superconductor by a Huazhong University team, explaining the levitation evidence and its caveats.

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.

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.

Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99(arxiv.org)

2308 points by spekcular 3 years ago | 1146 comments

arXiv preprint reporting synthesis of LK-99 crystals that show room-temperature, ambient-pressure magnetic levitation, replicating Sukbae Lee et al.'s claims.

Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples(arxiv.org)

317 points by platz 3 years ago | 276 comments

arXiv preprint reporting that LK-99-like samples show half levitation due to soft ferromagnetism, with no evidence of superconductivity.

Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt(arxiv.org)

576 points by spekcular 3 years ago | 240 comments

arXiv preprint reporting a synthesis of the LK-99 compound Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O that shows semiconducting rather than superconducting transport.