A team of researchers, including scientists from HSE MIEM, has demonstrated that defects in a material can enhance, rather than hinder, superconductivity. This occurs through interaction between defective and cleaner regions, which creates a 'quantum glue'—a uniform component that binds distinct superconducting regions into a single network. Calculations confirm that this mechanism could aid in developing superconductors that operate at higher temperatures. The study has been published in Communications Physics.

Amid high expectations for quantum technology, a new paper in Science reports proven quantum advantage. In an experiment, entangled light lets researchers learn a system's noise with very few measurements.

Researchers from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), one of the centers under the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, report an inexpensive iron hydroxide catalyst that could support the use of sodium borohydride as a hydrogen storage material.

Scientists at the Department of Applied Physics II of the University of Malaga have participated in the design of a new technology that controls fluids and particles in three dimensions through virtual thermal barriers generated using light.

An international study led by researchers from the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) of Pompeu Fabra University and Stanford University (California) has designed a system to identify highly selective peptides with high therapeutic potential. The method is based on the use of biologically- and chemically-modified bacteriophages to screen, with a high degree of precision, up to 1 billion peptides simultaneously. This allows identifying those that can successfully distinguish very similar proteins that play a significant role in the development of cancer and diabetes, respectively, and that are currently being treated with non-specific drugs.