Undoubtedly, most of the attention in 2020 went to the calamitous COVID-19 pandemic that challenged the global healthcare system and tested mankind’s willpower - across the different strata of the society and across geographies. Nonetheless, there were other radical developments that were made in science and technology in the same year. While the entire healthcare community have been up on their toes relentlessly trying to tame the coronavirus – from developing rapid test kits, to arranging quarantine centers to eventually coming up with the vaccine, there are quite a few scientific discoveries outside the COVID domain, that were given birth to. Physicists, for the first time, came up with the development of a room temperature superconductor . In general, a superconductor is a device that allows the flow of electric current without any resistance, i.e. a 100% lossless transmission of ...
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