UW Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Understanding Superconductivity Properties

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2013/11/uw-professor-achieves-breakthrough-in-understanding-superconductivity-properties.html

by jonbaer • 13 years ago

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shadowmint• 13 years ago

Anyone have a link to details?

...or is this just an 'up vote because I want it to be true rather than that the article contains any meaningful information' things?

edit: nevermind, found it http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130813/ncomms3336/full/nco...

sillysaurus2• 13 years ago

It's an 'upvote to discover whether it's true.' Like a significant fraction of HN stories.

pstuart• 13 years ago

Upvoting also saves the story to your profile, so some may do so to also bookmark it....

tantalor• 13 years ago

Title should say "University of Wyoming", not "UW".

"UW" means "University of Washington".

carterparks• 13 years ago

University of Wyoming is known as "UW" as well.

akarpenko• 13 years ago

Or University of Waterloo

ZoF• 13 years ago

University of (Washington, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Waterloo)

aabalkan• 13 years ago

Their website also says UW. That surprised me as well. I didn't know another UW existed at all.

011011100• 13 years ago

Who cares? Why does this matter at all? Are you seriously that confused over the abbreviation?

dekhn• 13 years ago

When referring to Washington, it's pronounced "Yoo-dub".

When referring to Wyoming, it's pronounced "Uhhwh"

shutupalready• 13 years ago

How far [will] the charge migrate across the interfaces between oxide superconductors and ferromagnetic materials? They revealed that the charge transfer is restricted within one nanometer from the interfaces.

The UW copywriter is overly generous with the headline.

"Breakthrough" joins other now-meaningless words such as "paradigm", "terrorist", and "awesome".

tokenadult• 13 years ago

This is a university press office press release, just a depressing example of the science news cycle

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

and not enough yet to comment on here. There has been no uptake of this yet by professional news organizations, and no link to a published article appears in the press release.

wuschel• 13 years ago

Agreed. I love those fluff words like "breakthrough". It sounds like "Blitzkrieg" to me. It is amazing how much clueless re-reporters can dilute the information density and usefulness of the initial abstract.

SubZero• 13 years ago

As someone that grew up in Wyoming, I'm surprised they even know how to spell "superconductivity".

UW Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Understanding Superconductivity Properties

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