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Date:10/20/2008

. Until now, researchers thought that this high-temperature behavior was limited to superconductors composed of copper oxides, the article notes. The discovery has reignited an international scientific race to discover additional HTSCs that require less cooling perhaps even no cooling and that could have many practical applications, the article notes.

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"Superconductivity heats up again"

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