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Breakthroughs With LK-99

South Korean scientists claim they have developed a new super-conductor, dubbed LK-99, that will bring revolutionary changes to the transmission of electrical energy. The new superconductor operates at room temperatures and could transmit energy across super-thin lines without great loss of power.

The primary materials used to manufacture the superconductor — lead and oxygen — are cheap, while the more expensive phosphorous also is needed, although in much smaller quantities. The LK-99 news has now been revealed but there’s still a lengthy review process ahead before any changes can occur.

Here, Clif High discusses the implications of the LK-99 discovery, and says, “Humans are going to the show!” This is another edition of High’s Explorers’ Guide to SciFi World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9SbX5r8Zg&t=12s

Is Phosphorous the Key to Life?

Scientists have discovered new evidence that one element–phosphorous–could be essential to creating life anywhere in the universe and it could be scarce.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen are the so-called bulk elements that make up our muscles and organs, and that we need a lot of to stay alive. But phosphorous is equally as important.

It is the key that provides our genetic make up–DNA and RNA–and our ATP, how we store and use energy. So is life in the universe rarer than we think? Or might there be other alien elements out there creating life we don’t understand? Host Maren Hunsberger explains further in this edition of Seeker.

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Morocco the Envy of the World

Russia is the largest country in the world, China is the most populated and the United States is the richest. And then there’s tiny Morocco, which isn’t exactly a global superpower but has something that every country wants–phosphorous.

Morocco has three-quarters of the world’s known reserves of rock phosphate, which is the main source of the element phosphorous, critical to civilization because plants need it to grow and we need plants to eat.  Learn more in this edition of MinuteEarth.

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