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Superconductivity has many important practical applications, including creating powerful magnets used in high-resolution medical scans, transporting electricity efficiently, and building ultra-sensitive measuring devices. Until now, understanding exactly what lay behind this unique phenomenon at high temperatures has eluded scientists over many decades. But pioneering research, led by physicists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Nature Physics, has identified the vital mechanism which explains how electrons in these copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors combine to transmit power with no loss of energy - the 'superconductive' state of infinite electrical conduction.

The collapse of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is already a major concern as the world continues to warm, but new research has revealed that ocean water is eating away at the underside of the glacier far faster than we previously thought. Along Antarctica's west coast, there are a number of glaciers that extend as ice shelves out over the Southern Ocean. Due to its size, one of the most important is Thwaites. At 120 kilometres across, it is the widest glacier in the world, with a total area close to 200,000 square kilometres. That's big enough to cover all of Nova Scotia, plus the islands of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, along with a quarter of New Brunswick, in kilometre-thick ice. Thwaites, itself, contains so much ice that, in the unlikely event of it completely collapsing into the ocean, global sea levels would rise by around 65 centimetres. Add to this the fact that Thwaites holds back a substantial chunk of the main West Antarctic ice sheet, enough to add another 2.4 metres to ocean levels, and it's easy to see why it has been nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier.