Science has spun Spider-Man’s web-slinging into reality
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Slowly but surely, we do well with the gadgets we as children imagined the future would hold. Watch Penny Brown’s video Inspector Gadget? Check. Starfleet tricoder from Star Trek? Almost…
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New superconducting materials have just been discovered
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazinee. In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three different materials. Two cases stretch the textbook’s…