PHYSICISTS often struggle to get their work into the public eye. Just ask Deborah Jin at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Two weeks ago, her group created a new form of matter called a fermionic condensate. Read the press release and news reports that followed and you could be forgiven for thinking that the new state of matter will solve the world’s energy problems. The reason? The pairing of atoms in a fermionic condensate resembles what might happen to electrons in a room-temperature superconductor. Understanding that might lead to super-efficient power cables and transformers that will not need to…
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