<story><title>Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery</title><url>http://io9.com/5731129/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexophile</author><text>The superconductor proceeded to text its ex-girlfriend all night.&lt;p&gt;Couldn&apos;t help it.  But I did try and find a more sober analysis of what was going on as it seemed that the only accurate words in the title were &quot;scientists&quot; and &quot;superconductor.&quot;  All I found was a press release from NIMS saying they would announce at ASC2010.&lt;p&gt;&quot;The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda) has discovered that alcoholic beverages, including red wine, beer, and others, are effective in inducing superconductivity in Fe(Te,S), which is an iron-based superconductivity related substance. This result was obtained in research by a team headed by Dr. Yoshihiko Takano, Group Leader of the Nano Frontier Materials Group of the NIMS Superconducting Materials Center (Managing Director: Hiroaki Kumakura).&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/07/p201007270.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/07/p201007270.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery</title><url>http://io9.com/5731129/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burgerbrain</author><text>Ok, I&apos;ve got to ask:  is there anything red wine &lt;i&gt;won&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; do?  Maybe scientists should start investigating it for use as an alternative to fossil-fuels as well? ;)</text></comment>