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A new material, synthesised by a group of Korean scientists, has brought superconductivity tantalisingly within reach. The compound, which the scientists have named “LK-99”, has become the talk of the scientific world and the potential to fetch them the Nobel Prize, for it cracks a problem that physicists have been racking their brains over for 110 years.Caution: Superconductivity is not yet in our hands; it is just very close. But first, some background about ‘superconductivity’.ALSO READ | Hope, skepticism around LK-99, the Korean scientists’ room temperature superconducting materialThere...