EditorialA diamond, placed in a diamond anvil cell under a microscope, for use in superconductivity experiments in a University of Rochester lab led by Ranga Dias in Rochester, N.Y., March 3, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
EditorialA diamond, placed in a diamond anvil cell under a microscope, for use in superconductivity experiments in a University of Rochester lab led by Ranga Dias in Rochester, N.Y., March 3, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
EditorialIn an undated photo provided by IBM, K. Alex Müller, left, and J. Georg Bednorz, who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that some ceramics can be superconductors, at work at IBM Research in Zurich. (IBM via The New York Times)