Cooper pairs

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Why You Should Care That Lanthanum Hydride Is a Superconductor at High Pressure

An image of the electron diffraction pattern of an icosahedral Zn-Mg-Ho quasicrystal. Credit: Jgmoxness/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Story of a Once-Unusual Material With a Still-Unusual Property